06:18 <kentonv> so the Sandstorm release that just went out includes the HTTP proxy rewrite. It's currently off by default, but if you want to try it, add `EXPERIMENTAL_GATEWAY=true` to your sandstorm.conf and restart

06:18 <kentonv> the effect should be lower CPU and RAM usage... hopefully no other visible change.

06:22 <kentonv> also if you use Sandcats TLS, with this setting, the SMTP port will now support STARTTLS -- however, sandcats doesn't publish MX records IIRC so this is probably moot (for now)

07:36 <kentonv> the new HTTP stack is now on for Oasis. This also means that nginx is no longer running on Oasis production servers.

22:07 <kentonv> dang... so far on Oasis the new gateway appears to be outperforming nginx alone, without even considering how much work it is offloading from Node.

23:03 <JonTheNiceGuy> For stupid lay-people like me, is this because your new code is specifically written for oasis, or because nginx is bloated, or something else? Will this go live into sandstorm normal?

23:17 <isd> JonTheNiceGuy: (a) it's already in the main repo, but disabled for now because it's expiremental; you can enable it with a config option. (b), I think kentonv's remark is somewhat out of surprise; the email he sent out announcing it said he didn't expect it would do better than nginx

23:18 <kentonv> yeah, my code shouldn't be faster than nginx, it's not very optimized...

23:18 <isd> See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sandstorm-dev/Nu1QetSgvj4

23:19 <isd> kentonv: does the gateway do websession to the app directly?

23:19 <isd> Also, This is just "server is serving even static pages faster", or...?

23:20 <kentonv> the gateway does WebSession directly, yes (currently only for UI sessions, not API, but adding API should be easy)

23:21 <kentonv> it forwards all traffic it doesn't explicitly recognize on to the shell (node.js process)

23:22 <kentonv> so pretty much it's serving the same purpose nginx used to: being an SSL-terminating reverse-proxy in front of the frontends. However, it additionally does WebSession proxying directly.

23:22 <kentonv> where "frontends" means "shell" -- I'm trying to teach myself to call it "shell" since "frontend" is clearly not the right word anymore