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Sinatra::Synchrony - Evented, fast, concurrent Ruby web apps with no callbacks

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Post by kyledrake » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:33 PM UTC

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Post by kposehn » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 6:39 PM UTC

Hell Yeah!

This may make my life a LOT easier. I've been running into the exact issues you are helping fix here. Thanks for posting :)

#3

Post by grandalf » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 7:38 PM UTC

this will save heroku users serious money.

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Post by splitrocket » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 9:07 PM UTC

10 kinds of awesome.

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Post by joshkaufman » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

I've been going back and forth between learning Sinatra and Node. This may seal the deal in favor of Sinatra...

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Post by rgbrgb » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

joshkaufman wrote: post #5

I've been going back and forth between learning Sinatra and Node. This may seal the deal in favor of Sinatra...

I'd really like to see a comparison between Node and Sinatra::Synchrony.

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Post by shapeshed » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

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Post by rgbrgb » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 11:00 PM UTC

shapeshed wrote: post #7

performance benchmark using the same ab tests for node http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/543953703/express-vs-sinatra-b...

So, if I'm reading this right, response time and reqs/second look pretty comparable between this and express.

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Post by sciurus » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 11:04 PM UTC

Neat; I hadn't heard of EM-Synchrony before. Here's a blog post explaining it: http://www.igvita.com/2010/03/22/untangling-evented-code-wit...

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Post by ScottMFisher » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 11:54 PM UTC

shapeshed wrote: post #7

performance benchmark using the same ab tests for node http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/543953703/express-vs-sinatra-b...

That's just plain old Sinatra.