On: Rails 5.0.0.rc1

[ryanjodonnell]

For reference when you say "pretty good-sized load" what are you referring to?

[schneidmaster → ryanjodonnell]

Thus far, peak at about 3000 REST requests per minute and 400 simultaneous ActionCable (websocket) connections. We're still scaling up the app, as we just launched it about a week ago, but we haven't yet hit the limits of the platform.

[qaq → schneidmaster]

one would hope 50 REST requests per second would not be the limit of the platform.

[karmajunkie → schneidmaster]

How many dynos does it take to serve that up, just out of curiousity?

[schneidmaster → karmajunkie]

Actually just 1 Performance-M dyno. With Sidekiq for external/resource-intensive requests, and a pretty large pool configured in Passenger.

ETA: It doesn't get as much press, but ActiveJob is one of my favorite parts of Rails 5. It's an agnostic implementation of background jobs -- ActiveRecord : (Postgres, Mysql, etc) :: ActiveJob : (Sidekiq, Resque, etc). Very nice, flexible syntax and it helps make your application platform-agnostic.

Second ETA: As rapind pointed out, ActiveJob has actually been available since Rails 4.2.

[rapind → schneidmaster]

I think ActiveJob has been in there since 4.1 or 4.2. Agree it's nice to have a standard.