[dancer-users] Horizontal Scaling

[Mirko Iannella]

Il 23/02/15 11:16, Zahir Lalani ha scritto:
> Hi
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> We are building an app which will be required to scale easily as it is expected to grow in use. From my previous job we had a good model (java based) for scaling where we could add n nodes easily as the number of users grew. I am now thinking about how I can achieve the same here, and want to get input from you guys.
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> I am currently looking at either memcached/redis as the session stores. We previously used couchbase and that worked very well. Has anyone had any experience of these session stores with Dancer?
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> The next item is the actual web server mechanism. Starman seems to be mentioned a lot, but I will be honest and say I do not know much about the Plack ecosystem. I am very used to using Apache (driving a Java container) and would like to continue with Apache as it allows us to do some wonderful tricks. Raw cgi seems a waste as its performance will not be good. I have seen articles that use starman behind apache but was wondering if any of you guys had direct experience of this, or what your recommendations would be.
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> Ultimately we will need to be able to deploy n+1 nodes of the app layer behind a  load balancer.
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> Your experience in this would be appreciated

Hello,
I typically use uWSGI, a very fast application server that supports PSGI 
[1] and integrates nicely with Apache via mod_proxy_uwsgi [2].

It can even work as a load-balancer, sitting between your apache and the 
various uWSGI instances [3]

[1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/PSGIquickstart.html
[2] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Apache.html
[3] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Fastrouter.html

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Mirko Iannella