madlep

I'm a dev that works at Envato on the marketplace sites discussed in the link. Some quick answers:

- None of those requests are served from cache. That's the number hitting the Rails stack and being served dynamically (there are some cached pages on top of that. not sure of the number of RPM off hand)

- Deployed on nginx/unicorn running on linux servers. I think we've got 17 web servers at the moment. Not sure of the specs sorry.

- average server response time is 155ms (again, not using caching)

I'm gonna run Apoptosis over the Apoptosis code base in a year, and see what warnings it throws up ;)

$5 is super cheap and affordable.

My time isn't though.

And I'll waste a lot of it now because I'll have to hunt out a corporate credit card and/or fill out an expense claim to install it on the (company owned) macs we use at work for dev.

$5 may as well be $1000 dollars for the effort I'll have to go through to get it now.

And all so I can get GCC installed so I can use homebrew to build the open source libs I need for doing web / backend dev.

Hoping Apple releases a "lite" version that contains the bare minimum needed to do that without all the extra IDE fluff I never use.

Actually, that is talking about the existing virtual-memory (VM) implementation, which swaps data in and out to disk, and doesn't work so great.

The change being talked about here is all about replacing that exact flakey VM with a more solid disk backed approach

Socks

Muppets. Current major app being worked on is called "Statler". There's probably a "Waldorf" coming up as well in the future.