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Re:Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king tur... by richcollins on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @07:23PM (#5216727)
how does it decide to queue at the dyno level anyway? Does it check for connection refusal at the TCP level?
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Re:Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king tur... by dblock on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @08:37PM (#5217061)
The connection is accepted, and a single-threaded web server will do the queuing.
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Re:Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king tur... by richcollins on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:20PM (#5224411)
Oh so the server process hosting rails is itself queueing? Is that what they refer to as "dyno queueing"? I thought perhaps there was another server between the router and your apps server process.
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