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There are frameworks that work like this, iirc. I think some in Scala, but I'm not sure. IMO, the added complexity wouldn't be worth it with things like Varnis

• yummyfajitas 13y ago
  Basically anything living in the akka+spray world is written this way. But akka+spray is not an framework in the same sense that django is.
  • lmm 13y ago
    Are there async drivers for e.g. mysql yet? Last time I did that I had a very nice async spray frontend, but it was all backed by a pool of regular blocking threads because that was the only way to use the database driver.
    • yummyfajitas 13y ago
      There is this, but it's not particularly mature: https://github.com/mauricio/postgresql-async https://github.com/mauricio/postgresql-async I also use https://github.com/etaty/rediscala https://github.com/etaty/rediscala for accessing redis. But even without async drivers for MySQL, you can still do: val sqlResult: Future[StuffFromSql] = future { val stmt = connection.createStatement("...") ... } This will tie up a thread, but you can still run other actions in parallel with it.
      • saryant 13y ago
        If you do this, execute the future on a different dispatcher so you aren't blocking the default dispatcher. This can cause problems if you tie up the default dispatcher with blocking SQL queries while using clustering: the cluster gossip won't be able to fire and if your failure detection settings are low, that node can be marked unreachable by the rest of the cluster.