Re:Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update
by lobster_johnson on Monday February 18, 2013 @11:37AM
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> The RoR model is very weak.
It's not "the ROR model". Rails is just an actor in the Rack space; how the framework handles feeds requests to Rails is entirely up the Rack adapter.
Rails itself is thread-safe and can handle requests concurrently with multiple threads; it can also run in a multi-process configuration.
The setup described in the article focuses on Thin, a web server that is primarily single-threaded. These days, many people use Unicorn, which uses a forking model to serve requests from concurrent processes.
It's not "the ROR model". Rails is just an actor in the Rack space; how the framework handles feeds requests to Rails is entirely up the Rack adapter.
Rails itself is thread-safe and can handle requests concurrently with multiple threads; it can also run in a multi-process configuration.
The setup described in the article focuses on Thin, a web server that is primarily single-threaded. These days, many people use Unicorn, which uses a forking model to serve requests from concurrent processes.