[dancer-users] Horizontal Scaling

[Zahir Lalani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dancer-users [mailto:dancer-users-bounces at dancer.pm] On Behalf Of
> Mirko Iannella
> Sent: 23 February 2015 17:49
> To: Perl Dancer users mailing list
> Subject: Re: [dancer-users] Horizontal Scaling
> 
> Il 23/02/15 11:16, Zahir Lalani ha scritto:
> > Hi
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Ultimately we will need to be able to deploy n+1 nodes of the app layer
> behind a  load balancer.
> >
> > 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
> 
> --
> Mirko Iannella

Nice - thanks Mirko

Seems like this setup is well supported

Z