My new Rails stack: nginx, Mongrel, MySQL, Subversion
This morning I discovered the existence of a new HTTP server I had not used before: nginx. I found that some experienced folks have adopted this in their Rails stacks and are happy with the performance over Apache. In a few minutes I had replaced Apache with nginx as the front end of our inventory system, in front of my mongrel cluster and I can already see a performance improvement in page load times. Even without a real test.
nginx looks very promising, not just in this HTTP reverse proxy role, but also in front of mail services.