what the hell is julep?
A couple of weeks ago, Zellyn Hunter, a coworker of mine, pointed me towards a description of unicorn, a backend web server for running rails/rack applications. As a django person, he was interested in seeing if the same basic preforking model could be implemented in a WSGI server to achieve the same results.
After drinking a bunch and watching hackers, he managed to convince me that this was a good idea.
So, the next day, I started working on re-implementing unicorn in python. After several name changes, the proof of concept that I built has evolved into julep. I’m happy to say that I’ve managed to put it into production on one of my own sites, badass resumes.
If you’re interested in trying out julep, feel free to check out the google code page. So far, it has been tested on python 2.5 and 2.6, but could potentially run on 2.4 if the wsgiref library is installed. In the coming days, I’ll work on documenting it and putting up more information about the deployment details of badassresumes. I’m also planning a series of benchmarks to see how well it does scale.
As with any free software project, you’re thoughts and ideas are welcome.
