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Wouldn't fibers work well for ActionCable applications? Lots of connections being kept alive, with sparse activity on them?

• byroot 2y ago
  Yes. But just for the Action Cable parts, as in you'd deploy Action Cable standalone with falcon, and then keep Puma or whatever for the purely transactional requests. If you don't, you'll notice that your Action Cable latency will be all over the place when a transaction request comes in. It's acceptable for "hobby" use, but if you try to provide a good user experience with reasonable latency, you can't just collocate Action Cable and the rest of Rails in a single process.
  • mosselman 2y ago
    Wow this sounds very smart. Do you have any tutorial somewhere on how to use Falcon for this? I am getting some strange errors that would probably be covered in a basic tutorial already.
  • ioquatix 2y ago
    Have you actually benchmarked this and published the benchmarks somewhere?