EventMachine: Get Excited By Scalable Non-Blocking I/O

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Thu, 03/18/2010 - 18:36

EventMachine is a simple(ish), fast, event-driven I/O library for Ruby.

Its goal is to provide highly scalable I/O performance with an easy-to-use API wrapped around the nastiest parts of the process (since typical Ruby coding practices aren't particularly event-driven friendly).

Aman Gupta has put together an awesome 114-page deck of slides (also available as a PDF ) that walks through EventMachine with lots of practical code examples.

The presentation walks through:

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