I’ve got another Scaling Rails screencast out today, this one the first of two episodes on learning about Load Testing.
Summary
In this first Load Testing Screencast we learn what exactly load testing is, why it’s useful, and learn how to properly use Apache Bench and httperf. These tools are very useful to gauge how your application handles under a heavy load.
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Very cool, thanks for your screencasts
Nice work Gregg, I noticed the headers of the web server use Thin webserver, is there any recommendation for ModRails with RubyEnterprise, use Thin on Apache or NGINX. Or perhaps some other alternatives to use as webserver. Can you comment something about Heroku as web server solution ?
Keep doing the great job.
Dinooz
Dinooz: I haven’t tried Heroku yet, but if I were to create an optimal production server environment right now, I think the best way to go is Nginx with Passenger.
It would be very interesting to do some benchmarking across the different VPSes.