Complex Made Simple: Sleep Better with TorqueBox
summary
TorqueBox is a JRuby/JBoss AS7 application server that replaces separate workers, cron jobs and memcached with built-in features: one-line always_background backgrounding (no delayed_job worker), scheduled jobs declared in torquebox.yml, and a clustered Infinispan cache for session and fragment caching. Deployment uses mod_cluster with Apache, Capistrano recipes and an init script; a dev start is ~4–7s after JVM startup and typical apps fit in ~1GB. Case study: an ASAP Rails app moves from Heroku (1 web + 1 worker, ~$50/mo) to a VPS option and runs on OpenShift.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00TorqueBox introduction
- 3:58What is TorqueBox
- 7:55ASAP case study
- 9:42Setting up TorqueBox
- 12:08Porting background jobs
- 15:38Caching with TorqueBox
- 17:06Replace cron with jobs
- 19:55Real-time updates
- 22:04Production deployment
- 25:59Cloud platform alternative
- 26:41Roadmap and status
- 27:24Resources and support
- 28:11Q&A
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