http://simonwillison.net/2010-02-01T10:13:14+00:00Simon Willison2010-02-01T10:13:14+00:002010-02-01T10:13:14+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/1/plurk/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://amix.dk/blog/post/19490">Plurk: Instant conversations using Comet</a></strong></p> Plurk’s comet implementation sounds pretty amazing. They’re using a single quad-core server with 32GB of RAM running 8 Node.js instances to serve long-polled comet to 100,000+ simultaneous users. They switched to Node from Java JBoss/Netty and found the new solution used 10 times less memory. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088699">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jboss">jboss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netty">netty</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nodejs">nodejs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/plurk">plurk</a></p>