Concurrency is all the rage. When you have tons of data being shoved down your throat, you need all the help you can get. All the cool kids are turning to alternatives to try and keep up: node.js, clojure, erlang, elixir, Go. Popular thinking is that Ruby is too slow and “won’t scale.” But our favorite friend can support it very well. In this talk we’ll take a look at the actor pattern in Ruby with Celluloid and compare to similar solutions in other languages.
Doug is a co-founder of Gaslight, a custom software development shop in Cincinnati, OH. As a lover of the backcountry, he not so secretly wants to move to the Mountains.