Celluloid and Concurrency (Changelog Interviews #81)

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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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

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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