Splitting up a Rails/Ruby app onto multiple servers
- by craig.kaminsky
We recently moved a large application to two machines, both running the same codebase.
I. Machine A
Web server for public facing application
Receives web hook call backs from our ESP
Handles a few large, list-processing jobs (uploaded spreadsheets with data)
II. Machine B
Manages a massive set of (background) jobs but, primarily,…