I need access control for the static files. The alternative is signed s3 
urls which expire. Uploads still require streaming through ring however as 
i cant generate signed upload urls with the parameters that I need.

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 3:27:09 PM UTC+12, James Reeves wrote:
>
> Java input streams are blocking, rather than asynchronous, so yes it would 
> use a thread per stream.
>
> In theory an asynchronous solution would be more efficient, and there are 
> adapters, like http-kit, that support this optimisation.
>
> However, in practice, Java can handle many threads in a single process, so 
> it's unlikely you'll run into difficulties until you have to support 1000s 
> of concurrent downloads. It's often a good idea to avoid premature 
> optimisations, particularly if you lack concrete benchmarks.
>
> It also depends a lot on how you're generating the downloads. If you're 
> generating the files dynamically, you may find that your bottleneck is 
> CPU-bound, rather than I/O-bound; in which case, there would be little 
> benefit to going async. If you're just serving static files, then it might 
> be useful hosting your files on a service like S3, and redirecting your 
> users instead.
>
> - James
>
>
> On 23 April 2014 04:03, Andrew Chambers <andrewc...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> When you set the body of a ring response to a java input stream and 
>> return it, is this still a thread per stream? or does it use some sort of 
>> java event loop for efficiency?
>> I'm worried that a traffic download/upload server in ring wouldn't handle 
>> many concurrent large file uploads and downloads as efficiently as 
>> something like google go or nodejs would. 
>> I would like to use ring because I want Datomic to manage the access 
>> permissions.
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