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.

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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.

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