WEBrick is the “slowest” webserver in Ruby, how could it possibly be webscale? To answer this question and explore Is Ruby Too Slow For Web-Scale?, we will compare WEBrick to a real piece of “webscale” tech: NGINX. While there might be some faster webservers on the market, is there a case where WEBrick is fast enough? Before we can dig into that question, let’s look at a real world deployment of W
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