Shinohara and Kiwamu Kato: Introduction to AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby

Kevin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:32:00 -0600

One of these homies just got married last month – his good. They also re-wrote their company’s 10-year-old package processing system (most recently in java) in ruby – their good.

Their messaging system, AP4R is:

LIGHTWEIGHT AND ROBUST, apparently
open-source
simple to use
used by various companies, including their 500-person firm in Japan
backed by the mascot apar, an armadillo, which is the most important feature
able to handle “busy” tasks and “heavy” tasks independently, resulting in better performance
able to play nice with capistrano (deployment goodness)
testable with functional tests (shortcut but fast-running) and async tests (better tests but slower)

They demo’d a shopping cart application, and the performance gains that can be had by using AP4R to processing the slow back-end processes asyncronously, while giving the user immediate feedback.

There are features planned for upcoming releases! Sounds like AP4R is a living organism, and well worth looking into for the right application.

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Shinohara and Kiwamu Kato: Introduction to AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby