Thin, a new web server built upon Mongrel, Rack and EM (5)
Marc-André Cournoyer has released a new web server called Thin. Thin is built upon Mongrel and 2 other ruby packages, Event Machine and Rack, and is promised to be much faster than mongrel, which is no small feat. Thin gets the extra-speed by being 100% single-threaded and could be used to serve pages from ruby web frameworks, like Ruby on Rails.
Ruby on Rails’s speed and scalability has been questionned, especially before mongrel appeared; everyone would point out for instance Twitter’s frequent errors to highlight Rails’s “fragility”. As I see it, Thin, in theory, has lots of potential and kill the speed problem, although I am still wondering how it serves concurrent requests in production mode.
Marc-André Cournoyer previously released refactormycode, a place where programmers could get help from other members for their code, as well as multiple plugins for Rails. His track record is impressive, and he is raising the bar very high for the rest of us. I am not sure what he is going to do next. Maybe a framework? Oh wait, it’s already done too. Here’s an idea: create a new programming language.
I haven’t created a dating site for people that love lolcats but never wear blue jeans… yet!
thx for the pub Heri!
hey MA,
i am sure a dating site for people who love lolcats but never wear blue jeans would be a hit.
it surely would make the front page of reddit.
:-)
hey i had another brilliant idea
you neeed to create a marc-andré replicator. that would be great
(in reference to mat balez’s post http://www.web1979.com/2008/01/04/thin-a-new-made-in-montreal-webserver/ who hails you as the ideal programmer)
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