Ralph’s son Henry

At work I have been using ApacheBench to help bench mark performance. It is a fabulous tool. After upgrading my OS to Lion, ApacheBench (ab) fails to run. Here was my error: Scott ~/src: ab -n 5000 -c 100 http://127.0.0.1:3000/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, [...]

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Rails, Passenger & Nginx Performance Tuning: Quick Start Guide At work we’ve been testing out rails as a candidate for production use. The company as a whole is generally cautious (read:slow) about adopting new technology, specifically when it gets outside of the jvm. For that reason I’ve been tasked with preformance testing rails against one [...]

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