088 RR Concurrency and Celluloid with Tony Arcieri

01:07 – Tony’s Introduction

• LivingSocial
• Celluloid

01:36 – Unofficial Rogue: Adam Robbie

01:54 – Ruby Rogues Parley: Sign up via Stripe! 

02:32 – The History of Ruby’s Concurrency/Threading

• Green threads
• New Relic

08:49 – The Multiprocess Model

12:56 – Processes vs Threading

14:38 – Taking Better Advantage of Threading

15:38 – The GIL (Global Interpreter Lock)

• YARV by Koichi Sasada
• JRuby.org
• Rubinius

21:47 – Celluloid

• Actor-Based Object-Oriented Concurrency
• Erlang & Scala
• RubyConf 12 – The Celluloid Ecosystem by Tony Arcieri
• Celluloid.io
• tarcieri/reeltalk

25:55 – Inter-Thread Communication

28:49 – Celluloid Starter Projects

• Dining philosophers problem
• Cigarette smokers problem

31:38 – Celluloid Competing with node.js and Erlang

• Adhearsion
• Akka

33:25 – Projects using Celluloid

• Sidekiq

34:34 – Using Celluloid in the Future

• Peer-to-peer System

36:59 – Rack

39:02 – Helping to develop Celluloid

• Akka Typesafe Console

41:02 – “Let it Crash” Philosophy

44:20 – Tips for Concurrent Programming

• VisualVM
• Programming Concurrency on the JVM: Mastering Synchronization, STM, and Actors by Venkat Subramaniam
• Celluloid (Google Group)

Book Club

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

Next Week

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