Pitchfork, Falcon, and Performant HTTP Servers - RUBY 587

<p>Jean Boussier is a Staff Engineer on <a href="https://github.com/Shopify" rel="nofollow">Shopify</a>&#39;s Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He joins the show to talk about <a href="https://github.com/Shopify/pitchfork" rel="nofollow">pitchfork</a>. He begins by defining the pitchfork and describing how the application concept works. Moreover, he explains the reason why he wrote it and tackles some of its useful features. </p><p><br></p><h1>Sponsors</h1><ul><li><a href="https://topenddevs.com/resume" rel="nofollow">Chuck&#39;s Resume Template</a></li><li><a href="https://topenddevs.com/book-club" rel="nofollow">Developer Book Club</a></li><li><a href="https://topenddevs.com/sign_up" rel="nofollow">Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h1>Educational Links</h1><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/Shopify/pitchfork" rel="nofollow">GitHub - Shopify/pitchfork</a></li><li><a href="https://shopify.engineering/ruby-execution-models" rel="nofollow">To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at Ruby’s Execution Models</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/Shopify/heap-profiler" rel="nofollow">Heap Profiler: Measure memory allocations and retentions of a Ruby code snippet</a></li><li><a href="https://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#config-eager-load-namespaces" rel="nofollow">Rails’ eager_load_namespaces</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhDPO3zlAQ" rel="nofollow">The Deadline pattern</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/Shopify/semian" rel="nofollow">Circuit Breakers in Ruby with Semian</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/socketry/falcon/tree/master/guides/performance-tuning" rel="nofollow">Performance tuning Falcon </a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5500" rel="nofollow">Ruby’s New GVL Instrumentation API </a></li></ul><p><br></p><h1>Socials</h1><ul><li><a href="https://ruby.social/@byroot" rel="nofollow">Jean Boussier (@byroot@ruby.social) - Ruby.social</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/byroot" rel="nofollow">GitHu