Jesse Storimer

This book will help you get the story straight when it comes to multi-threaded programming in Ruby. Heard of things like Ruby’s GIL? Mutexes? Race conditions? Actors? This book is a gentle introduction to these topics for the complete concurrency beginner. After reading, you’ll have a firm grasp on why multi-threaded concurrency matters, how to use multiple threads safely, what issues to be aware ...

You're a modern master of Ruby. Want to impress your coworkers and write the fastest, most efficient, stable code you ever have? Don't reinvent the wheel. Reuse decades of research into battle-tested, highly optimized, and proven techniques available on any Unix system. This book will teach you what you need to know so that you can write your own servers, debug your entire stack when ...