EventMachine HTTP Duplex Proxy: splits any incoming request into two parallel connections to two hosts.
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One of the connections is marked as production: response is forwarded to client
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One of the connections is marked as benchmark: response is buffered by the proxy
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Once both connections are finished, a ‘post processor’ is executed
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Response time + response body is compared and analyzed
Because sometimes you want to benchmark your new code against the production environment, and this pattern makes it easy to do so! Put up a proxy, customize it, and analyze whatever you want. The client won’t notice a thing.
> ruby server.rb -c demo/duplex_http.yml > ruby demo/appserver.rb 9001 > ruby demo/appserver.rb 9002 > curl localhost:9000