Comparison of Rails Deployment Stacks
November 25th, 2009
Why?
Why write this post in the first place?
To showoff your cool stuff?
To deride the other perfectly good software?
No, the only reason I am writing this post is to back up our statement that WebROaR is generally much faster than all other comparable deployment stacks. The aim is to provide real world data and insights in to our benchmarking procedure for everyone. Honestly, there is not much fun in performing this long experiment, as we programmers do have very short attention spans. (Oh wait, let me see HN/programming reddit once again ...).
The results of this comparison should be just taken as an indicator and should act only as one of the many data points in coming up with your own conclusion about Rails deployment stacks. If you are seriously interested to know the performance numbers of your application, please do try this experiment at home. :-)
Read the rest of this entry