Posts Tagged “messaging”

To AMQP or to XMPP, that is the question

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 19, 2009

Some time ago I started a series of blog posts [1,2] on Ruby and messaging. Most of the series is still in draft format and has to be completed. It’s a topic I’ve been very interested for some time, and (…)

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Ruby and Messaging (Part 2) – Giving Rails a Break

by Kenneth Kalmer on November 7, 2008

NOTE: This post has been in draft for a couple of months now, and might seem a bit dated because of that. I need to complete the series and have decided to publish it for a sense of completeness. Like (…)

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Messaging and Ruby (Part 1) – The Big Picture

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 7, 2008

Rails doesn’t scale. Now that I have your attention, lets forget scaling all together and instead start focusing on how you can give Rails a break using messaging or ‘backgrounding’. This is the first in a series of articles where (…)

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