Scaling Ruby with Actors, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threads - Mike Perham - Ruby Conference 2011

Ruby Conference 2011

Scaling Ruby with Actors, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threads

The last two years have been a personal tour of EventMachine, Fibers and Threads for me as I've toured the ecosystem looking for a developer-friendly, efficient solution for scaling Ruby. Historically Threads have performed poorly in Ruby but guess what? - recent events may change your mind. Now would be a good time to give them a second chance.

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Posted on: Nov 28, 2011

Conference Videos

Keynote: Ruby Everywhere

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Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto

Big Data Enterprisy Analytics App and Ruby

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Writing Solid Ruby Code

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Persisting Relations Across Time and Space

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Piotr Szotkowski

Exceptional Ruby

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Why You Don't Get Mock Objects

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Blueprint: configuration management for busy people

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Richard Crowley

So You Think You Can Code: Part Deux

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Aaron Patterson, Ben Bleything, Yossef Mendelssohn, John Barnette, Evan Phoenix

"Algorithms" is Not a Four-Letter Word

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Parallel worlds of CRuby's GC

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Narihiro Nakamura

Evented Telephony Application Design with Adhearsion

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Advanced EventMachine

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How Getting Buff Can Make You a Better Rubyist

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Release Early and Release Often: Reducing deployment friction

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Code design and the science of pleasure

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LocalCommunity.Build, :through => Code Retreats, Bugmashes & more

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Better Than ROT13

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Bradley Grzesiak

Keeping Ruby Reasonable

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Joshua Ballanco

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Micah Martin, Robert Martin

Powerful (but Easy) Data Visualization with the Graph Gem

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JRuby and Big Data

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Jeremy Hinegardner

Rails services in the walled garden

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Sidu Ponnappa, Niranjan Paranjape

Ruby Software Continuously Delivered and Exhaustively Explained

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Srushti Ambekallu, Brian Guthrie

A Mentor in the Limelight

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MongoDB to MySQL: the How and the Why

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Services Inception with Ruby

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Message in a bottle

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Konstantin Haase

The Return of Shoes

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The Secret Life of Ruby: Warrior With A Cause

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Dewayne VanHoozer

Ruby OpenSSL: Present, Future and why it matters

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Martin BoÃŸlet

JRuby: Polyglot Heaven

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Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo

The Well-Grounded Nuby

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MacRuby on Rails

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Practical Metaprogramming: "Modeling Thought"; Or, Lessons Learned While Using Ruby's MP System to Model a 2,500 Year-Old, Dead Language

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Getting Fancy on Rubinius

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Christopher Bertels

Implementation of Ruby 1.9.3 and later

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Parallel Testing World

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Nikita: The Ruby Secret Agent

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Must It Always Be About Sex?

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KidsRuby: Think Of The Children!

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Test-drive the development of your command-line applications

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Just Say No To :nodoc: and Document Your Code!

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Be a Minecraft modman with Purugin

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Your tests are lying to you

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Float is Legacy

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Resources, For Real This Time (with Webmachine)

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Lightning Talks

Various Presenters

Lightning Talk: company_fit.should_not == monoculture

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Lightning Talk: Let's go to "Shibuya Rubyist Lunch" at Tokyo, Japan

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Toshiaki Koshiba

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Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto

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Scaling Ruby with Actors, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threads

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Raising the Bar

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Ruby in the browser with NativeClient (NaCl)

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Next Level Virtual Machine Maneuver!

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Mitchell Hashimoto

How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub

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Ruby Community: Awesome; Could Be Awesomer

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Threading versus Evented

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Dr. Nic Williams

Advanced API design: how an awesome API can attract friends, make you rich, and change the world

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Laser: Static Analysis for Ruby, in Ruby

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GitHub Flavored Ruby

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Tom Preston-Werner

Sandboxing Ruby: The Good, the Bad, and the Fugly.

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Complex Ruby concepts dummified

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MongoMapper, Mixins, and Migrations - a look at managing data-model complexity

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