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Mongrel2's Got Config Files, Streams MP3s
- KTamas 16y agoI really hope he's announcing tomorrow that somebody is backing the project financially. That'd be awesome.
- icey 16y agoYou never know what could happen: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483343 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483343
- kordless 16y agoZed came by our office the other day to talk about supporting streamed logs with Mongrel2. As we already use 0MQ, it's a small change to our clients to support taking HTTP POSTs as log events. It's fucking fantastic, as Zed would say. :) He was talking about the config file viewer thing too. One of the things that pops out of having a SQLite as your configuration store is the ability to programmatically change your server's configs on the fly.
- loewenskind 16y ago>One of the things that pops out of having a SQLite as your configuration store is the ability to programmatically change your server's configs on the fly. I hope this catches on more. The old Unix way of changing some text file (with its own unique grammar) and sending some signal to some process needs to go away.
- mhd 16y agoIf we would've reached that stage, I'd be happy enough. There's enough software out there that requires restarting the process and doesn't support the edit/HUP method. And while I'd prefer something like Lua, tcl or lisp to SQL, at least it ain't XML.
- 0bfusct3 16y agoConfiguration files need to be static key value or a relational algebra - you cannot have mutations and branches based on logic within a configuration or else you introduce issues you wouldn't want to even dream of.
- mhd 16y agoSo generating those values in a full-fledged programming language is that much better?
- 0bfusct3 16y agoMaybe it's just me but I think this is incredibly stupid - He's abstracting the issue that Unix isn't distributed into a single application. It's like putting $5000 rims and mufflers on a $100 van.