Re: The Web, Continuations, and All That

[Ian Price]

Antono Vasiljev <address@hidden> writes:

>> It would be if someone(nudge nudge) were to take the effort to make one
>> of these experiments practical, since a guile web framework seems to be
>> a common request.
>
> While i like the idea i should note that it does not scale. What if you
> have 5 application servers (guile (import (web server)) running behind
> reverse proxy. User may never fire needed continuation. Overall scaling
> strategy for web is "avoid per node state" (see read-only filesystems on
> Heroku).

Well, no-one suggested that the current approach is practical. It isn't.

-- 
Ian Price

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