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At RailsCluster we're doing hardware-based load ba...

2009-01-18T09:31:00.000-08:00

At RailsCluster we're doing hardware-based load balancing based on least number of connections. Bare metal performance!

I'm late to the party, but I was skimming your blo...

2007-10-16T16:45:00.000-07:00

I'm late to the party, but I was skimming your blog and noticed your writeup about drproxy. HAProxy supports the same idea of queueing up requests and passing them along to the next available downstream process. You're right that it makes a big difference not having to "get in line" behind slow requests.

Please read the third installment. Apache's load b...

2007-07-04T10:30:00.000-07:00

Please read the third installment. Apache's load balancer handles requests the same way a standard grocery store checkout works... a request goes into a line for one dispatcher, it doesn't matter if another dispatcher frees up before the assigned dispatcher is able to complete that request.

Isn't this what apache proxy load balancer is for?...

2007-07-04T09:03:00.000-07:00

Isn't this what apache proxy load balancer is for?

If no, how is apache load balancer different then what you've created?

Yes, I am just packaging it up, should be released...

2007-06-25T12:01:00.000-07:00

Yes, I am just packaging it up, should be released soon.

Could you open source the erlang program you wrote...

2007-06-25T12:00:00.000-07:00

Could you open source the erlang program you wrote?