The logo makes it as if it's read "N Unit", which is probably confusing as a popular unit testing with such name exists: http://nunit.org/
Nginx Unit
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Re: Nginx Unit
#42This looks pretty cool, and makes me sad that Mongrel2 never became popular. In short: Mongrel2 solves the same problem, but does it by letting your application handle requests and websocket connections over ZeroMQ instead of eg FastCGI. I guess it lost momentum when ZeroMQ did. Anyone know why? Sounds like a dream solution in the current microservice hype. http://mongrel2.org/
Wait, zeromq lost momentum ? When did that happen ?
Re: Nginx Unit
#43This looks pretty cool, and makes me sad that Mongrel2 never became popular. In short: Mongrel2 solves the same problem, but does it by letting your application handle requests and websocket connections over ZeroMQ instead of eg FastCGI. I guess it lost momentum when ZeroMQ did. Anyone know why? Sounds like a dream solution in the current microservice hype. http://mongrel2.org/
Wait, zeromq lost momentum ? When did that happen ?
When was the last time you heard something about it?
Re: Nginx Unit
#44Confusing description. After seeing the Github README ( https://github.com/nginx/unit#integration-with-nginx ), it looks to be Nginx's alternative to low-level, language-specific, app servers, e.g. PHP-FPM or Rack, with the benefit that a single Unit process can support multiple languages via its dynamic module architecture, similar to Nginx web server's dynamic modules. It's still intended to run behind Nginx web se…
It's a polyglot app server with microservice orchestration. It's definitely needed.
Some things to look for, such as registration/discovery of services, intra-cluster load balancing (where it started, no doubt), identity propagation & authn/z
The biggest issue to my mind though is distributed transactions and logging/debug/development. My biggest stumbling blocks with this sort of thing.. stepping through code over microservices is such a PITA.
Re: Nginx Unit
#45So, Nginx follows exactly the way of Apache HTTP: remember mod_php, mod_perl etc?
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#46I'm happy to see this. nginx itself is excellent software, I'll be happy to use similar tech for the application server as well (instead of uwsgi). There are a couple of options I'd like to see added to the Python configuration though before I could try it: - Ability to point it at a virtualenv. - Ability to set environment variables for the application.
lol.. nginx en-masse configuration is a nightmare. i can point to a fortune 50 company that it's destroying for relying on it. I won't name names :)
Re: Nginx Unit
#47I'm having a hard time seeing what niche this fills. It seems to be both a process manager and TCP proxy. What am I missing here? What makes this better than, for example, using docker-compose? I think a "how it works" or "design doc" would be really helpful. That said, the source files do make for pleasant reading. The nginx team has always set a strong example for what good C programming looks like. EDIT: Their blo…
> What makes this better than, for example, using docker-compose? Not having to use docker would be a huge plus for me.
yes, infinitely more lightweight. but docker compose and friends are cool
Re: Nginx Unit
#48I'm happy to see this. nginx itself is excellent software, I'll be happy to use similar tech for the application server as well (instead of uwsgi). There are a couple of options I'd like to see added to the Python configuration though before I could try it: - Ability to point it at a virtualenv. - Ability to set environment variables for the application.
lol.. nginx en-masse configuration is a nightmare. i can point to a fortune 50 company that it's destroying for relying on it. I won't name names :)
Great story bro
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#49Is this like AWS Lambda you could put in your own cloud?
> Is this like AWS Lambda
No
> you could put in your own cloud?
Yes
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#50I initially thought it would allow to dynamically handle upstreams list (and other configuration) like hipache is doing [1], which would be awesome for dokku or other container management systems which rely on system nginx. But after seeing languages mentioned, I'm confused.
Is it supposed to replace language specific servers, like unicorn and puma for rails (but then, I'm confused about what such kind of support would be for Go, since the server is directly embedded in the program)? Does it embeds interpreter for interpreted languages, like mod_* did for apache?