Comments on: Quick update: Ravelry runs on

By: KnitFriend

KnitFriend — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:17:31 +0000

This is a fun setup. Shoot me an email if you’d like some volunteer help!

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:27:21 +0000

Here is a quick Gist that shows how the rolling deploy works: http://gist.github.com/210236

By: Manu

Manu — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:46:46 +0000

Can you share your capistrano rolling deployment config?

By: Lorenz

Lorenz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:55:26 +0000

Hi! I've been reading about your site on news.ycombinator.com and am fascinated by how much you achieved as just one programmer.

Can you tell me what forum software you use on ravelry? Or did you code that from the ground up?

By: Jauder Ho

Jauder Ho — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:49:37 +0000

Have you looked at the ey-balancer patch for nginx?

It’s essentially a port of the haproxy maxconn code to nginx.

http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master

By: Load Balancing < Code Monkey Island

Load Balancing < Code Monkey Island — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:35:51 +0000

[…] - Spring 2009: We are not running Phusion Passenger / Apache instead of Thin. Everything else remains the […]

By: Scott T.

Scott T. — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:14:19 +0000

Brian, Phusion runs on Apache. From the diagram, it looks like Casey has nginx out on port 80 then routes requests via haproxy to a cluster of Apaches running Phusion. I’m guessing nginx might also be delivering static or non-Rails content as well?

Casey, what are you doing for asset hosting? All in house? CDN? S3? Have you looked into CDN services or reverse proxy cache (e.g., Varnish)? Or is that not a big enough problem for you yet?

By: GinaC

GinaC — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:34:15 +0000

Whenever someone posts a link to their page on Ravelry…it now takes you to that new job description!! I’ve clicked on several links that Ravelers have posted, as they wanted to take you to ‘their’ page…but each time now all roads lead to the job description and want-ad for Community Support person. No doubt, several other people have mentioned this, but that drawn-in person actually looks a lot like me, except for about 150 pounds of flesh…perhaps I should consider applying. In the meantime it would be great if you’re able to help with the problem of all outside Ravelry links now leading to the job ad rather than to the Raveler’s page. In advance, thanks for your help! …gcor

By: Brian Burridge

Brian Burridge — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:39:02 +0000

You are using nginx with phusion passenger? I thought apache was a requirement for that?

Brian

By: Scott Trudeau

Scott Trudeau — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:31:43 +0000

Thanks for this. I’m working on getting a Code Monkey Island-inspired blog going for Apartment Therapy. Soon, soon.