Joyent makes Rails app go to 4,000 req/sec
Posted by David February 04, 2007 @ 11:46 PM
Our friends at TextDrive/Joyent have been slugging away at their seriously impressive mega-cluster for quite some time now and it looks like it’s paying off. Just a few days ago, Shopify announced they were coming over.
And now Jason Hoffman shares a few statistics on how they’re making a new big Rails app scale to no less than 4,000 requests per second on one of their sub-pages. That’s a pretty juicy number and is thanks to their BIG-IP-to-48-mongrels setup for Twitter.
Keep rocking, boys.
BTW, the company’s Jason Hoffman will be giving a 3-hour tutorial at RailsConf entitled Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up. You’d be well-advised to secure an early seat to that one.
blog objects (css) look screwed in ie6…
Please do investigate and shoot back a link to a new CSS that’ll fix it and I’ll update it.
It’s the preformatted text that causes a problem for IE6. It doesn’t scroll content via the overflow property unless it has an explicit width for the box, so when there’s a long line it’s overlapping the left and right columns here.
Adding this to rails.css should fix it:
pre { width: 100%; padding-bottom: 24px; }
Since the horizontal scrollbar is rendered inside the box, IE decides it needs a vertical scrollbar too. The bottom padding doesn’t take this away, but it keeps you from actually having to scroll vertically.
I wrote down a few notes about our rails scaling setup at http://ilike.typepad.com/engineering/2007/02/ilike_scaling_r.html that anybody interested in that link might find interesting as well. cheers, n@
Now if only they could keep their servers from going down all the time they would be all set.
Dear Internet: Don’t confuse container hosting (Accelerators) with FreeBSD shared hosting (which is going the way of the DoDo, incidentally). Totally different.
Dear Geoff: TXD used to be the star among the hosting options for rails and for the hobbysts. Now it’s gone the way of the $$$ and you can’t even boot a meager mephisto. Totally different. That’s why Internet is sour.
Please stop disguising advertisements for your buddies as “blog posts”.
Thank You.