Celluloid and Concurrency (Interview)
Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns.
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Show Notes:
- Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid.
- Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby.
- Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors.
- DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ.
- Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social.
- Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4.
- Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API.
- Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine.
- Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode.
- Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot.
- Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5.
- Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino.
- ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects.
- Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name.
- E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language.
- Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects.
- Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem.
- Tony likes Clojure.
- Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes.
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