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From: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>
To: Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The Web, Continuations, and All That
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:32:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5swcbt9.fsf@Kagami.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1FC437.8020801@antono.info> (Antono Vasiljev's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:58:31 +0300")

Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info> writes:

>> It would be if someone(nudge nudge) were to take the effort to make one
>> of these experiments practical, since a guile web framework seems to be
>> a common request.
>
> While i like the idea i should note that it does not scale. What if you
> have 5 application servers (guile (import (web server)) running behind
> reverse proxy. User may never fire needed continuation. Overall scaling
> strategy for web is "avoid per node state" (see read-only filesystems on
> Heroku).

Well, no-one suggested that the current approach is practical. It isn't.

-- 
Ian Price

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-22 18:46 The Web, Continuations, and All That Tobias Gerdin
2012-01-22 20:46 ` Ian Price
2012-01-23 21:11   ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-30 19:17     ` Tobias Gerdin
2012-01-31 10:00       ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-06 19:49         ` Tobias Gerdin
2012-02-07  8:48           ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-25  8:59   ` Antono Vasiljev
     [not found]   ` <4F1FC437.8020801@antono.info>
2012-01-25 10:32     ` Ian Price [this message]
2012-01-30 19:03       ` Tobias Gerdin
2012-01-31  9:06         ` Ian Price
2012-02-04  9:53           ` Ian Price
     [not found]           ` <CAJiKzQMETO7g6YyqCbeoV0GD09gena6RK6q6bYhjTOe+wNq+Uw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-06 19:40             ` Fwd: " Tobias Gerdin

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