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Hello all, I have always deploys rails apps with unicorn and nginx as a reverse proxy in the past. However, I am working with a new firm and they would like to use Apache with mod_pagespeed in front of unicorn. We will be deploying a rails 3.1 app with streaming. To me, mod_pagespeed does not seem like a magic bullet, as it appears to be a collection of best practices which have to be rewritten as a page is being served. Why not code with the best practices in mind as to not have to...

Just saw this article http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20101103/tc_mashable/google_helps_autotune_your_web_server (/rant - stupid seo links, lame /rant off) it mentions it is set up for linux distros, notably centos. Anyone use this yet? Affect the auto yum update at all?