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Scaling Rails: Offline Jobs

Date
Wed, 11 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
(Exact location not available) , Baltimore, US
Cost
Free

We will be looking at some of the more popular solutions for off-loading CPU / memory intensive work from Rails application servers.

[list]

  • Jonathan Jullian will be presenting on delayed_job
  • Mike Dotterer will present on backgroundjob
  • If time permits (and someone is keen on it), we will also look at beakstalkd
  • [/list]

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