Swiftiply 0.6.1 Released

Swiftiply is a fast backend agnostic clustering proxy for web
applications
that is specifically designed to support HTTP traffic from web
frameworks.

New in this release, other than some bugfixes and performance tweaks,
are
three notable items:

  1. Built in static file handling and Rails page cache handling. This
    should, for many applications, simplify and accelerate deployment
    considerably, as it can eliminate the need for a traditional web server
    in
    front of the application.

  2. Redeployable requests. If a backend is handling a request, and that
    backend goes down before it returns a response to the request, Swiftiply
    can redeploy the request to the next available backend node, ensuring
    that
    the request is handled.

  3. HUP handling. Change your configuration to add or remove proxy
    destinations, and you can just HUP Swiftiply to have it reload the
    configuration.

The documentation has mostly been updated to reflect these changes,
though
there are some sample configurations being added soon.

Around the beginning of next week I will release 0.6.2 that will contain
some further enhancements to the static file handling, so that HTTP
caching directives are properly handled.

Kirk H.