Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Interview)

Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Zed Shaw – Website, GitHub, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies. Original mongrel _why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server 0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever. Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript. Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python libevent Asynchronous event notification library EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1 SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster. LayerTennis from Coudal MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2 Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects. Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto Joyent Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework. Qt Cross platform UI framework Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing. Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!