I love an in-depth, technical blog post as much as anyone, and kudos to Ryan for dissecting Unicorn, but I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read that

I love an in-depth, technical blog post as much as anyone, and kudos to Ryan for dissecting Unicorn, but I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read that Unicorn has, "teh Unix turned up to 11". zOMG! fork! This series of blog posts underscores my point that the Rails community, perhaps the Web 2.0 community at large, is just now learning things the rest of us have known for years. accept(2)-based pre-forking socket servers are not news.