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@@ -17,21 +17,22 @@ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="documentation/css/dawn.css" /> </head> <body> <a href="http://www.propublica.org" class="propublica">&nbsp;</a> <h1>Thinner &ndash; Version <%= File.read('VERSION') %></h1> - <p><a href="https://github.com/propublica/Thinner">Thinner</a> is a utility + <p><a href="https://github.com/propublica/thinner">Thinner</a> is a utility for purging urls from a Varnish server.</p> <p>When you are deploying code changes to a server under load, the uncached load can quickly bring down your backend server even with Varnish's grace mode. Often, allowing stale caches to stick around for a while saves both server performance and sanity.</p> <p>Thinner gives you fine-grained control over wildcard purging, and rolls purges out slowly. Your users will see stale pages from the previous deploy until Thinner has finished invalidating the stale cache at a rate that you set. - If you have a bunch of pages you need to invalidate en masse, but don't - want to risk overloading your server, Thinner is for you.</p> + If you have a bunch of pages you need to invalidate en masse and at infrequent + intervals (e.g. deploys, timed remote api updates), but don't want to + risk overloading your server, Thinner is for you.</p> <p>All that being said, Thinner isn't really a solution for observing model changes and purging associated urls. If you have a highly dynamic application, it's worlds better to handle purging via a <a href="http://github.com/russ/lacquer/blob/master/lib/lacquer/delayed_job_job.rb">job server</a> outside of the request-response flow.</p> @@ -56,9 +57,11 @@ <p>The command line interface accepts a newline separated list of urls via stdin by setting the <strong>-e</strong> flag. So you'll be able to use the command like so:</p> <pre>cat urls_to_purge.txt | bin/thinner -e</pre> <h2>Change Log</h2> + <h3>0.1.1</h3> + <p>Fixed bug in command line argument parsing.</p> <h3>0.1.0</h3> <p>Initial release.</p> </body> </html> \ No newline at end of file