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Re: Nginx Unit

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Post by jjeaff » Sat, Sep 09, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

dogweather wrote: post #225

adventist wrote: post #203

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Yeah I had a hard time finding out what this site did.

Lol, yep: > NGINX Unit is a new, lightweight, open source application server built to meet the demands of today’s dynamic and distributed applications. That means everything and nothing. They wasted their intro sentence on it. They probably don't have a very good idea of what it is either.

While it is a fluffy marketing sentence, it seems clear to me. It's an application server.

Then the next section explains that you can run different kinds of applications and even different versions of the base software like different versions of PHP or python all in the same server.

Re: Nginx Unit

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Post by wink » Sat, Sep 09, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

jkarneges wrote: post #189

nly wrote: post #180

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I thought PushPin was based on Qt?

It's multi-process. The core logic is a Qt application, but it delegates the external protocol I/O to separate processes. Mongrel2 handles inbound and Zurl handles outbound (Zurl is a project of ours that is basically the inverse of Mongrel2).

Parts of mongrel2 were sadly a solution in search of a problem. Mostly the "let's redo FastCGI via ZMQ". Was still immensely fun working on and with it.

Re: Nginx Unit

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Post by mempko » Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 2:02 AM UTC

tribby wrote: post #221

mempko wrote: post #162

But can I use Perl 6?

that was my question too. seems like no for now, and no plans either.

Sad butterfly

Re: Nginx Unit

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Post by theshrike79 » Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 7:03 AM UTC

shoover wrote: post #218

theshrike79 wrote: post #62

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Dunno, I spent close to a week trying to get it to compile with and without encryption on Windows to no avail. Ended up using a Linux container on Docker to get the thing working.

That is troubling. I always thought of zeromq as having as good Windows support as anything not written exclusively for Windows.

So did I, that's why I selected it. Did my development on OSX and Linux and thought that deploying a static binary on Windows would be a breeze.

It wasn't, turned out to be a Class 4 hurricane :P

Re: Nginx Unit

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Post by shoover » Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 8:50 PM UTC

theshrike79 wrote: post #234

shoover wrote: post #218

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That is troubling. I always thought of zeromq as having as good Windows support as anything not written exclusively for Windows.

So did I, that's why I selected it. Did my development on OSX and Linux and thought that deploying a static binary on Windows would be a breeze. It wasn't, turned out to be a Class 4 hurricane :P

Looks like there is a path hardcoded in the build files causing problems. After some reflection on the msvc/README, renaming the project directory to libzmq (was: zeromq-4.2.2 from the release or libzmq-master from github zip download), and launching cmd.exe using the Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 link, libzmq/builds/msvc/build/build.bat successfully builds all configurations.

Re: Nginx Unit

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Post by RantyDave » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

shoover wrote: post #193

RantyDave wrote: post #51

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I'm using it for a project now. It's a bit weird, but it does work. Cool thing: you can slot a file descriptor into the zmq provided poll ... point is that you can poll on both zmq and sockets in the one loop. Pro Tip: Use 'cbor' for serialising.

Thanks for the tip. In which language(s) do you use CBOR? I want to like it, but the various C APIs look a bit cumbersome and lacking docs.

Python 3.