Simon Willison’s Weblog

Ravelry. Tim Bray interviews Casey Forbes, the single engineer behind Ravelry, the knitting community that serves 10 million Rails requests a day using just seven physical servers, MySQL, Sphinx, memcached, nginx, haproxy, passenger and Tokyo Cabinet.

# 3rd September 2009, 6:50 pm / caseyforbes, haproxy, memcached, mysql, nginx, passenger, rails, ravelry, scaling, sphinx-search, tim-bray, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant

Phusion Passenger for nginx. Passenger (aka mod_rails / mod_rack) enables easy deployment of Rails and Ruby apps under Apache... and the latest version adds support for nginx as well. It works as an HTTP proxy and process manager, spawning worker processes and forwarding HTTP requests to them via a request queue. It can also handle Python WSGI applications—anyone tried it out for that yet?

# 20th April 2009, 4:53 am / apache, deployment, nginx, passenger, python, rails, ruby