From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS14383 205.234.109.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Wong Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general,gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general Subject: Re: unicorn 0.8.2 and 0.9.1 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:52:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20090710195220.GA13208@dcvr.yhbt.net> References: <20090709090951.GA3173@dcvr.yhbt.net> <3670459b7de642ba5d5a0ce074534b83@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247255553 15031 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2009 19:52:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Original-X-From: mongrel-unicorn-bounces@rubyforge.org Fri Jul 10 21:52:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclrug-mongrel-unicorn@m.gmane.org X-Original-To: mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org Delivered-To: mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3670459b7de642ba5d5a0ce074534b83@ruby-forum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: mongrel-unicorn-bounces@rubyforge.org Errors-To: mongrel-unicorn-bounces@rubyforge.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general:9 gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general:298348 Archived-At: Received: from rubyforge.org ([205.234.109.19]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MPM8v-0008Lf-Cq for gclrug-mongrel-unicorn@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:52:25 +0200 Received: from rubyforge.org (rubyforge.org [127.0.0.1]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FE31858125; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:52:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dcvr.yhbt.net (dcvr.yhbt.net [64.71.152.64]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D4A1858125 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.2.5]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F89B1F5FC; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Roger Pack wrote: > Eric Wong wrote: > > Unicorn is a Rack HTTP server for Unix, fast clients and nothing else > > So who exactly would benefit most from this library? What is the target > audience? Just wondering more background on it. The target audience is people deploying/maintaining/managing HTTP apps that only clients within their LAN are expected/allowed to hit. Of course, with a decent reverse proxy in front, all traffic from the reverse proxy can be considered internal and fast (unless your LAN is horrible). Clients don't have to be on a Unix-like OS, of course. It's also a testing ground for features that may make it into Mongrel 2 (assuming portability requirements are met). Unicorn gives us more freedom to exploit features unique to Unix-like systems (and maybe even (optionally) Linux 2.6+ in the future). Fwiw, I've known about (and implemented similar (but meaner :)) things like the recently-disclosed Slowloris for several years now. That's why we refuse to support Unicorn talking directly to the Internet at large. There's also some philosophy and design notes here that describe why we did some of the things we did: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/PHILOSOPHY.html http://unicorn.bogomips.org/DESIGN.html -- Eric Wong