Re: [Rails-core] Multiple Asset Hosts

2014-10-31 Thread Richard Hulse
Sebastian Korfmann wrote: > > > I've been wondering if the assumption of four asset hosts for the sake of > speed improvements is still valid. > And Jeremy Kemper wrote: > Domain sharding is still useful but our guidance is outdated. It's > from a pre-SSL-everywhere, pre-SPDY era where browsers

Re: [Rails-core] Multiple Asset Hosts

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Kemper
Domain sharding is still useful but our guidance is outdated. It's from a pre-SSL-everywhere, pre-SPDY era where browsers had low per-domain connection caps. http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/09/05/domain-sharding-revisited/ http://blog.cloudflare.com/using-cloudflare-to-mix-domain-sharding-an

Re: [Rails-core] Multiple Asset Hosts

2014-10-31 Thread richard schneeman
*## On Perf Changes* Any performance improvements that have wide implications such as this, need to be benchmarked before they could be merged. It's not enough to do the research, we would need actual experimental proof that it works, provides a significant speed boost to justify the extra code c

[Rails-core] Multiple Asset Hosts

2014-10-31 Thread Sebastian Korfmann
Hey there, I've been wondering if the assumption of four asset hosts for the sake of speed improvements is still valid. Rails documentation about asset hosts: Browsers typically open at most two simultaneous connections to a single > host, which means your assets often have to wait for other