Hi all, I wrote to this list waaaay back in January discussing auto-scaling for Unicorn, in situations where dedicated servers aren''t practical. I''ve now written a separate autoscaler, under the name of alicorn (https://github.com/bensomers/alicorn). My current team''s been running it in production for several weeks now with pretty good results, including correctly identifying and responding to a major load spike (and correctly spinning back down afterwards). I would love comments, suggestions, (constructive) criticism, etc. Hopefully there are some other folks out there who will find it useful. Slightly related blog post at http://somanyrobots.com/2012/07/11/switching-to-unicorn, but most info is just in the github repository itself. -ben
Ben Somers <somers.ben at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I wrote to this list waaaay back in January discussing auto-scaling > for Unicorn, in situations where dedicated servers aren''t practical. > I''ve now written a separate autoscaler, under the name of alicorn > (https://github.com/bensomers/alicorn). My current team''s been running > it in production for several weeks now with pretty good results, > including correctly identifying and responding to a major load spike > (and correctly spinning back down afterwards). I would love comments, > suggestions, (constructive) criticism, etc. Hopefully there are some > other folks out there who will find it useful.Cool. Feel free to use this mailing list for discussion if you want. Some folks (a minority, I know) just aren''t comfortable with /using/ websites. (Reading is fine, logins/cookies/JS is not) I also don''t like the wording "Eric Wong''s Unicorn" since many people have contributed to this project (and Mongrel). I''ve never had much of an identity online and I''m trying to minimize that as much as possible[1]> Slightly related blog post at > http://somanyrobots.com/2012/07/11/switching-to-unicorn, but most infoThat''s 404-ing on me [1] The only reason I ever use my name in public is for GPL enforcement (and as a deterrent to would-be GPL violators). Thankfully it hasn''t come up in a few years (and never for this project).
> I also don''t like the wording "Eric Wong''s Unicorn" since many people > have contributed to this project (and Mongrel). I''ve never had much of > an identity online and I''m trying to minimize that as much as > possible[1]Already changed, in that case.> > Slightly related blog post at > > http://somanyrobots.com/2012/07/11/switching-to-unicorn, but most info > > That''s 404-ing on meGah, foolish me. Corrected link: http://somanyrobots.com/2012/07/09/switching-to-unicorn
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Ben Somers <somers.ben at gmail.com> wrote:> Gah, foolish me. Corrected link: > http://somanyrobots.com/2012/07/09/switching-to-unicornHey Ben. I''d like to point out that Phusion Passenger 3.2''s prerelease code is actually already live. You can find it in the ''experimental'' branch in our Github repository. -- Phusion | Ruby & Rails deployment, scaling and tuning solutions Web: http://www.phusion.nl/ E-mail: info at phusion.nl Chamber of commerce no: 08173483 (The Netherlands)