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What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Henry Baragar
Date:
2011-04-14 @ 15:21
Hello,

I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector) to use 
mongrel2 for part of their website.   As part of the due diligence process, I 
have been asked where mongrel2 is being used in production and how critical is 
its use to the organization. 

Please respond to me, either on the list or in private, if you are using 
mongrel2 in production for a significant website.

Regards,
Henry

-- 
Henry Baragar
Instantiated Software

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Zed A. Shaw
Date:
2011-04-15 @ 14:58
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:21:06AM -0400, Henry Baragar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector) to use 
> mongrel2 for part of their website.   As part of the due diligence process, I 

My honest opinion is that you could start developing your site with it
now, and based on your time-frame, be ready to adopt the mongrel2 v2.0
that I'm working on.  The actual way it works will be the same, I'll
just have added much better control, pulled the proxy out, and given you
tnetstrings instead of json for extra speed in handlers.

Also, as someone else mentioned, I do consulting work if you need it and
usually just fix stuff that you find as bugs (or you can fix them).

As for sites using it, there's a few folks who mentioned this in their
replies, and also most of my sites use it and I get upwards of 400k hits
in a day, depending on the project and what I'm promoting about it.
Mongrel2 handles it just fine.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Matt Towers
Date:
2011-04-15 @ 15:15
We're using m2 and Tir in a beta, multi-tennant environment now.  Very low
traffic so far but we're doing lots of dynamic reconfiguration.  Given the
simplicity of the sqlite.config schema, it's been a breeze.  Unless 
something radical changes, we're committed to it for the long term.

Speaking of v2.0...Zed, what's your gut feel on when you'll push it out?  
I'm looking forward to checking out the new options for managing conifg.

✈ Matt



On Apr 15, 2011, at 07:58 , Zed A. Shaw wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:21:06AM -0400, Henry Baragar wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector) to use 
>> mongrel2 for part of their website.   As part of the due diligence process, I 
> 
> My honest opinion is that you could start developing your site with it
> now, and based on your time-frame, be ready to adopt the mongrel2 v2.0
> that I'm working on.  The actual way it works will be the same, I'll
> just have added much better control, pulled the proxy out, and given you
> tnetstrings instead of json for extra speed in handlers.
> 
> Also, as someone else mentioned, I do consulting work if you need it and
> usually just fix stuff that you find as bugs (or you can fix them).
> 
> As for sites using it, there's a few folks who mentioned this in their
> replies, and also most of my sites use it and I get upwards of 400k hits
> in a day, depending on the project and what I'm promoting about it.
> Mongrel2 handles it just fine.
> 
> -- 
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://zedshaw.com/

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Zed A. Shaw
Date:
2011-04-15 @ 22:43
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:15:52AM -0700, Matt Towers wrote:
> Speaking of v2.0...Zed, what's your gut feel on when you'll push it
> out?  I'm looking forward to checking out the new options for managing
> conifg.

I'm going to do some hacking on it this weekend to get the control port
converted, then I'll have people try it.  I'll debate then whether 2.0
should also move the proxy out as well as the "config from any damn
thing".

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Loic d'Anterroches
Date:
2011-04-16 @ 07:55

On 2011-04-16 00:43, Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:15:52AM -0700, Matt Towers wrote:
>> Speaking of v2.0...Zed, what's your gut feel on when you'll push it
>> out?  I'm looking forward to checking out the new options for managing
>> conifg.
> 
> I'm going to do some hacking on it this weekend to get the control port
> converted, then I'll have people try it.  I'll debate then whether 2.0
> should also move the proxy out as well as the "config from any damn
> thing".

I have no idea for the "config from any damn thing" yet (your rpc
stuff?), but I am awaiting the proxy out. This is because I want to code
my own proxy for Apache+Subversion but having the access rights handling
at the proxy level.

Basically, I want to be able to :
- check rights via a command over zmq.
- create on the fly a new repository on first checkout if the rights are
ok (idem via a command over zmq).

The proxy out will allow me to do all these tests/hacks etc. on a code
outside of the core Mongrel2. This will be extremely good for the
stability. Also, if the cost of my zmq calls increase, I can easily
start new proxy handlers to support the load, I cannot do that when
everything is packed into the core.

So yes, real usage for me. If you do not put that "out" I will need to
do it myself anyway...

loïc

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Drew Whitehouse
Date:
2011-04-14 @ 21:08
Or perhaps you could simply pay Zed for support to solve this chicken and
egg problem.

-Drew

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Henry Baragar <
Henry.Baragar@instantiated.ca> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector) to use
> mongrel2 for part of their website. As part of the due diligence process, I
> have been asked where mongrel2 is being used in production and how critical
> is its use to the organization.
>
> Please respond to me, either on the list or in private, if you are using
> mongrel2 in production for a significant website.
>
> Regards,
>
> Henry
>
>
> --
>
> Henry Baragar
>
> Instantiated Software
>
>


-- 
Drew Whitehouse
ANU Supercomputer Facility Vizlab

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Zed A. Shaw
Date:
2011-04-15 @ 14:42
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:08:11AM +1000, Drew Whitehouse wrote:
> Or perhaps you could simply pay Zed for support to solve this chicken and
> egg problem.

Pfft, why would anyone do that? Open source is all about free labor and
reducing costs, not about a fair trade of ideas. (sarcasm)

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Loic d'Anterroches
Date:
2011-04-15 @ 06:41
Hello,

You an present your point by decoupling the elements:

- front end: Mongrel2
- application transport layer: ZMQ
- application code: your work

- Mongrel2 itself is very robust. I hammered it a lot and it does not
leak memory, the code base is small, everything is tested, etc. just
grab a bit of code and show how the check on errors is done everywhere.
- ZMQ is used by many in the financial sector, you can easily find
whitepapers whatever to support your case.
- Your work is your work...

loïc

On 2011-04-14 23:08, Drew Whitehouse wrote:
> Or perhaps you could simply pay Zed for support to solve this chicken
> and egg problem.
> 
> -Drew
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Henry Baragar
> <Henry.Baragar@instantiated.ca <mailto:Henry.Baragar@instantiated.ca>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector)
>     to use mongrel2 for part of their website. As part of the due
>     diligence process, I have been asked where mongrel2 is being used in
>     production and how critical is its use to the organization.
> 
>     Please respond to me, either on the list or in private, if you are
>     using mongrel2 in production for a significant website.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Henry
> 
> 
>     -- 
> 
>     Henry Baragar
> 
>     Instantiated Software
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Drew Whitehouse
> ANU Supercomputer Facility Vizlab
> 
> 

-- 
Dr Loïc d'Anterroches
Founder Céondo Ltd

w: www.ceondo.com       |  e: loic@ceondo.com
t: +44 (0)207 183 0016  |  f: +44 (0)207 183 0124

Céondo Ltd
Dalton House
60 Windsor Avenue
London
SW19 2RR / United Kingdom

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Henry Baragar
Date:
2011-04-19 @ 13:57
loïc,

These arguments were able to convince my client.

Thanks,
Henry

On April 15, 2011 02:41:14 am Loic d'Anterroches wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> You an present your point by decoupling the elements:
> 
> - front end: Mongrel2
> - application transport layer: ZMQ
> - application code: your work
> 
> - Mongrel2 itself is very robust. I hammered it a lot and it does not
> leak memory, the code base is small, everything is tested, etc. just
> grab a bit of code and show how the check on errors is done everywhere.
> - ZMQ is used by many in the financial sector, you can easily find
> whitepapers whatever to support your case.
> - Your work is your work...
> 
> loïc
> 
> On 2011-04-14 23:08, Drew Whitehouse wrote:
> > Or perhaps you could simply pay Zed for support to solve this chicken
> > and egg problem.
> > 
> > -Drew
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Henry Baragar
> > <Henry.Baragar@instantiated.ca <mailto:Henry.Baragar@instantiated.ca>>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >     Hello,
> >     
> >     I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector)
> >     to use mongrel2 for part of their website. As part of the due
> >     diligence process, I have been asked where mongrel2 is being used in
> >     production and how critical is its use to the organization.
> >     
> >     Please respond to me, either on the list or in private, if you are
> >     using mongrel2 in production for a significant website.
> >     
> >     Regards,
> >     
> >     Henry
> >     
> >     
> >     
> >     Henry Baragar
> >     
> >     Instantiated Software

-- 
Henry Baragar
Instantiated Software

Re: [mongrel2] What sites are using mongrel2

From:
Dalton Barreto
Date:
2011-04-14 @ 16:15
2011/4/14 Henry Baragar <Henry.Baragar@instantiated.ca>:
> Hello,
>
> I am considering recommending to a client (in the financial sector) to use
> mongrel2 for part of their website. As part of the due diligence process, I
> have been asked where mongrel2 is being used in production and how critical
> is its use to the organization.
>
> Please respond to me, either on the list or in private, if you are using
> mongrel2 in production for a significant website.

Hi Henry,

I was already visualizing my answer to your email when I read "for a
significant is the website"... =)

Well, I use mongrel2 on http://wsgid.com and to me it's a significant
website. It's the official website for the project. It's by now very
low traffic (the project was released few days ago) but I'm pretty
confident that this setup will perform well on a high traffic
environment.

The site http://wsgid.com in fact runs with mongrel2 and wsgid itself.

-- 
Dalton Barreto
http://daltonmatos.wordpress.com
http://wsgid.com