Scaling Ruby with Actors, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threads by Mike Perham
988 views · Published 13 December 2011 · 37:53 · Indexed 10 October 2026
Channel: Confreaks · 2011 · Science & Technology
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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