quick and dirty metrics

Now that I have github -> heroku publishing in place now is the time to setup even more over kill, heroku offers a few (2)5 MB Memcache Bucket.

I made the following changes to config.ru

if memcache_servers = ENV["MEMCACHE_SERVERS"]
	require 'dalli'
	require 'rack-cache'
	require 'memcachier'
	$cache = Dalli::Client.new
	use Rack::Cache,
		:verbose => true,
		:metastore => $cache,
		:entitystore => $cache
end

To test that caching is working use ab aka Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool and run ab -n 500 -c 5 [hostname]

This will make 500 requst to [hostname] with 5 concurrent request.

And to see if Rack::Deflater is working

curl -I -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" [hostname]

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