SocketStream Google Group

Re: SocketStream apps in the wild

dav...@imap.cc (Skipster) — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:28:24 UT

Michele's Day - [link]. The site is a mash-up of Cozi and
Evite, with Match.com tendencies. It's open to new users, but in very early
beta. More like alpha.
Uses Ember, Mongo, Redis, and a proprietary DB layer that I call "Ember
Documents".
Other technologies we tried, that failed (at the time -- 1 year ago) where

Re: SocketStream apps in the wild

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:57:30 UT

Well, there's [link]... :P

SocketStream apps in the wild

paul.jen...@axisto.com (Paul Jensen) — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:32 UT

Hi,
I'd like to compile a list of apps that are using SocketStream, partly out
of curiosity, but mainly for a dev resource center for work. If you have an
application and you're happy to share a link and/or a description of it,
please leave a comment here.
Regards,
Paul Jensen

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

paul.jen...@axisto.com (Paul Jensen) — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:43:33 UT

If you're interested in some rudimentary load testing, I can recommend
blitz.io. It can hammer custom http routes and give you an idea of how well
the servers will cope with serving html (and other assets if they're not
already on a CDN). It won't test websockets (as far as I know).
Regards,
Paul Jensen

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:32:13 UT

ah...interesting! thx

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

paul.jen...@axisto.com (Paul Jensen) — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:22:55 UT

Hi Robert,
I've done some research, and upstart is available on Amazon Linux, which is
a variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Some details I forgot to mention: Upstart's homepage:
[link]
That example script can be dropped into /etc/init/APP_NAME.conf
Then you can run it like this:

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:23:35 UT

Paul -- I don't think I'm running Ubuntu
When I type $ cat /etc/issue I get:
Amazon Linux AMI release 2012.09
Kernel \r on an \m
Being DIY, and less experienced, do you recommend a better AMI? Some that
come prebundled w/ Node.js? I think I set it up myself, but maybe there's
something preoptimized in the marketplace? Would something like this be

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:58:21 UT

You guys are awesome -- thanks for all the pointers.

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

hackers.are.rockst...@gmail.com (Mauro Pompilio) — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:59:24 UT

Hi Robert,

If you're going to follow Paul's advice of using Upstart (which I also
recommend) there's a very useful Ruby gem called Foreman[1]. If you
deployed something to Heroku you might be familiar with it. It enables you
to manage the processes your app need to run. You can use it locally and

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

paul.jen...@axisto.com (Paul Jensen) — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:35:36 UT

Hi Robert,
A few extra pointers. If you're running the app across multiple
processes/servers, you might need to configure the client-side assets so
that they use the same filename as opposed to the default timestamp option.
Secondly, if you're using Ubuntu, I can recommend using upstart to manage

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:31:12 UT

Oh, regarding restarting node process if it goes down, Owen, we've been
using Forever w/ good success. Is this the kind of thing you're referring
to?

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thomas.0...@gmail.com (Thomas White) — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:09:43 UT

Robert,

I have interests in the same area and I am following this thread with
curiosity.
The following links are not directly related to your question but cover the
socket scalability. I hope they will be of help.

[link]
[link]

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:48:02 UT

Thx Owen -- this is good to get me started -- I'll return to it, I'm sure
w/ more questions.

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

socketstreami...@gmail.com (Owen B) — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:28:15 UT

Hey Robert
I'd recommend looking into Amazon Elastic Beanstalk which now supports
Node.js. I deployed a web app the other day using Engine.io (websockets)
and it worked well. Yet to try it with SocketStream, but I expect it will
work fine.
Few things to remember:
1. Set the Load Balancer to TCP (not the default HTTP) for websockets to

Re: Amazon EC2 advice

thebookofrob...@gmail.com (Robert Hall) — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:58:42 UT

(p.s. I'll be hanging out in IRC as much as possible if anyone wants to
ping me there: ArxPoetica)
Thx!