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by FooBarWidget
4779 days ago
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There are some strange things I noticed about this benchmark's organization: - JRuby is a Ruby implementation. Why is it listed under Platform? It should be listed under Language. - Why are Unicorn and Gunicorn listed under front-end web servers? Unicorn and Gunicorn are explicitly not front-end web servers, but are meant to be put behind a reverse proxy, by design. The Unicorn author tells users very clearly not to put it directly on the Internet because bad things will happen: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/PHILOSOPHY.html section "Application Concurrency != Network Concurrency". It would be more suitable to put both of them in the Platform category. |
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We have received some similar feedback previously and have discussed some possible changes to the meta-data structure [1] [2]. As you can imagine, it is actually a complex problem assigning consistent terminology to all of the various parts that can compose a web application's deployment.
Consider Go (language, platform, framework, and server all in one, at least from our perspective) versus Rails (framework only). Some frameworks embed a web server, others don't, and so on. We have had to make several judgment calls in classifying this very broad spectrum of frameworks, and freely admit that there is room for improvement in that classification.
Incidentally, the Ruby deployment is Unicorn behind nginx. We opted to identify the Ruby deployment as "Unicorn" because that is the key among the two, and to clearly indicate the divergence from a previous round in which we were using Passenger, much to the dismay of the community.
[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/26...
[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/26...