Kirk Haines
I started using Ruby back in the Ruby 1.6 days, and I have used it in my daily professional life ever since. I'm fascinated by issues of application design, distributed architecture, and making hard things easy. I was also the last Ruby 1.8.6 maintainer. For entertainment, I read studies on exercise and nutrition physiology, and I like to run and bicycle long distances. This year will include my first 50k and 50m running races, and at least one 75 mile gravel bike race.
Web Server Concurrency Architecture
Ruby has many different web server options, covering a gamut of possible concurrency architectures. We will look at what those concurrency options are, and at what their respective theoretical costs and benefits are.
We will then look at a reference ruby web server implementation that can have each of these different concurrency architectures plugged into it, and examine how its performance under load varies with each of those architectures.
We'll wrap it all up with a summary of the results, and a look at which Ruby web servers fall into which categories of concurrency architecture.