Thruster is now open source

The idea for Thruster came about when we started working on the ONCE project last year. We needed a way to package Rails applications that customers could run simply, by themselves. The applications should require very little effort to set up, and no ongoing maintenance, but they still need to be fast and secure.We realized that – out of the box – Rails with Puma actually gets you pretty close, but on its own it’s not quite enough. To reach the performance you’d expect, you’d typically need to deploy Puma along with additional web servers, CDNs, and the like. You usually end up with a few moving parts to set up and maintain.