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Socketmaster: Zero Downtime Restart for Your Apps

Hi developers!

I have just released yet another Open-Source project. This was gracefully sponsored by PandaStream, so I thought I might as well post here. Let me introduce you to socketmaster.

In the tradition of UNIX, socketmaster does just one thing but does it well; it helps your app to restart without losing or refusing a single connection. socketmaster is the gatekeeper, keeping your sockets warm under the fire of restarts (christmas starts sooner every year isn’t it ? ho ho ho!).

To port your app to socketmaster you just need to do two things:

  1. Change the startup code to open the file-descriptor 3 as a socket listener.
  2. Gracefully shutdown on SIGHUP.

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