[erlang-questions] Misultin EOL

[Michael Truog]

On 02/16/2012 02:02 PM, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED <mailto:mjtruog@REDACTED>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     I am very concerned about the fact Misultin will no longer be developed, mainly because I don't see how cowboy has been able to provide the same performance and stability Misultin has provided.  I understand there has been a great push for people to use cowboy, but I think it really requires loadtest result comparisons with Misultin to drive more serious usage.  A good way to start would be to show that cowboy can surpass or at least be on-par with Misultin in a benchmark similar to http://www.ostinelli.net/a-comparison-between-misultin-mochiweb-cowboy-nodejs-and-tornadoweb/ .  How can we compare cowboy and Misultin stability (i.e., for how long has cowboy been stable in production)?  Is cowboy going to be able to take the lead on HTTP Erlang web server performance where mochiweb and yaws have been unable to (please don't bother to flame this, those people that don't care about performance, but care about Erlang)?
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>     So, this change just leaves me with a bunch of questions that have no clear answers available.  It is sad that we are losing stability due to hype, which seems like an uncommon trend among Erlang, but I assume this is more of a comment on the community rather than the language.  Thank you for your efforts on Misultin!
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>     Thanks,
>     Michael
>
>
> hi michael,
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> as stated in that old benchmark, please do not take wrong conclusions out of it. there's nothing in there which talks about stability and other things. i'm happy that i've published because it has brought *a lot* of attention to erlang, but i probably wouldn't do it again: benchmarks like this are probably more confusing than anything else.
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> i'm not going for 'hype', but tend to be a little realistic. i've been developing misultin mainly by myself with the support of the community. cowboy has had a fast adoption and lot of developer which i believe to be very good are actively and jointly working on it.
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> i'm obviously running misultin in production since i've built it because i needed it: i'm simply gradually gonna consider cowboy for my new projects.
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> r.

That may be a common reason to avoid providing any public benchmarks, it may never be a diplomatic thing to do, since it is raw results.  The interpretation of the results is always dependent on the individual that is doing the decision making.  However, the potential for an individual to misinterpret the results does not seem to be good justification for not posting performance information.  Keeping performance information private, helps to limit innovation, only encouraging stagnation.  Having a good idea of how HTTP servers compare is very beneficial, to help reduce latency, support more connections, and support more internal computation latency.... so, it helps us push limits.  I understand you may not want to do benchmarks like that in the future, but I think it would be a shame to not have more recent benchmark results that can provide a more logical guide for our decision making when we consider the strengths and weaknesses of the various Erlang HTTP servers (and their
improvements over what is available without Erlang).

- Michael
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