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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