Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series: Distributed Programming with Ruby

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This hands-on guide offers a comprehensive approach to building advanced distributed applications using Ruby, focusing on techniques that enhance scalability, development, and deployment in cloud environments. The author, a leading expert in the Ruby community, begins with a straightforward distributed application and progresses through increasingly complex examples, addressing common distributed programming challenges. Key topics include an in-depth exploration of Ruby's standard distributed programming libraries, DRb and Rinda, alongside powerful third-party tools and frameworks like Distribunaut. The guide is tailored for experienced Ruby programmers and architects, providing practical solutions to complex distributed programming issues. Readers will learn to write robust, secure, and interactive applications with DRb while managing its limitations, use Rinda for improved application flexibility and fault tolerance, and simplify DRb service management with RingyDingy. The book also covers facilitating communication between distributed programs with Starfish, customizing server processes in cloud environments with Politics, and ensuring reliable distributed queuing with the Starling messaging server. Additionally, it addresses comprehensive enterprise messaging using RabbitMQ and AMQP, as well as offloading heavy tasks with BackgrounDRb and DelayedJob. This resource is essential for tackling any distributed programming cha