brightball
Cowboy as nginx replacement?
With the trending news that nginx has been acquired by F5 (Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks | Hacker News) it sparked the natural discussion of nginx alternatives despite F5 committing to the continued open source project development.
That got me wondering what it would take to utilize Cowboy standalone as a replacement for nginx for people who aren’t using Erlang/Elixir? Are there guides out there for it? Would it be viable?
If so it seems like this would be a very good opportunity to position Cowboy as an alternative, which would realistically generate more investment and development in the project…and as a likely byproduct create more interest in the BEAM ecosystem as a whole to a wider audience.
If Cowboy is a viable replacement, this would seem to be a rare “preparation meets opportunity” moment.
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lpil
Both GitHub and Heroku use Cowboy in a place where people might more commonly use Nginx (file server, reverse proxy), so is can be used in this fashion.
I suspect we’d never be able to fill the shoes of Nginx as deployment of Cowboy/the BEAM is considerably more fiddly than deploying Nginx.
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lpil
I’m afraid not, but Heroku have made some of the code public.
https://github.com/heroku/vegur
https://github.com/heroku/cowboyku
There is also a book on running Erlang at scale from Fred Hebert back when he was at Heroku Be the Erlang Medic in a Time of War: New Book | Heroku
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