Cian Butler

It's super readable and simple.

And probably of all the tools I'm going to talk about, it's the easiest to work with and was pretty bulletproof in doing some amazing things for us.

But the HAProxy one was, I think HAProxy is just a better queuing tool, or at least my experience of doing request management in HAProxy has been better.

But I think when no one knew which way we wanted to actually go, the idea of like, let's replace them both.

Let's replace one with the other was the idea.

And when I found Granion, I looked at it and said, oh, this can not only replace our whiskey management interface, but it can also replace HAProxy.

because it can do that queuing internally.

And it has dials for tuning that queuing as we needed it to work.

So there was, and we also had this intense dislike of uWhiskey because uWhiskey is quite difficult to tune.

uWhiskey being the tool we use for managing WSGI requests.

So I started chatting to a principal and said, have a look at this.

What do you think about this?

And I got the thumbs up of, sure, let's try it out and see what happens, which is a very Irish way of going, let's run a load test and see how it performs.

So we, we threw up a version of, we threw up a version into our load test environment that replaced uWhiskey with Gradian, Gradian, Gradian.

One of these.

One of these two.

So we threw up a version into our load test environment that replaced uWhiskey with Grannian.

And we began load testing it.

We just started throwing lots of different types of requests.

We have some nice load testing tooling that simulates some request flows.