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Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2011-07-02 · latest 2018-10-29

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  1. Neat idea! If you're interested in production quality high concurrency Ruby check out https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/ which can support hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections.
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-10-29 · in Maintaining 65k open connections in a single Ruby process
  2. …also supports light-weight cooperative threads called Fibres, which are used to build things like: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/ JRuby has no GIL, JIT, and is significantly faster than BEAM.
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-08-02 · in A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
  3. We've had a lot of love recently for Goliath + Grape, e.g. see: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/blob/master/example... Goliath is it's own asynchronous app server, and it wraps around the nice Grape API DSL. Works really well for…
    comment by themgt · 2012-11-22 · in Introducing the Rails API Project
  4. …The Goliath web server is the closest thing I've seen in Ruby land that considers these problems ( https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/wiki/Middleware ). Does anybody know if there's a Rack 2.0 spec in the works that takes care of…
    comment by bradgessler · 2012-07-30 · in Live Streaming in Rails 4.0
  5. …advanced use-cases, like HTTP streaming upload/downloads, websockets, etc.. Take a look at Goliath: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath Same idea, em-synchrony under the hood.
    comment by igrigorik · 2011-12-19 · in Sinatra::Synchrony - Evented, fast, concurrent Ruby web apps with no callbacks
  6. …look into Goliath as well. http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/26/server-sent-event-notificat... https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/tree/websockets
    comment by sshconnection · 2011-08-30 · in Asynchronous ruby framework for websockets, eventsource and streaming
  7. …API endpoint, frameworks like Rails and Django are overkill. In Ruby, I'd suggest Goliath, instead: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/ I'm not into PHP but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a way to build a scalable, efficient…
    comment by petercooper · 2011-07-02 · in Ask HN: Suggest a technology to build a restful API for our wbesite