The MonoRail

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" summary

A tiny Ruby pubsub stack gets built and demoed end to end: a gem called propono wires AWS SNS/SQS to simple Ruby publishers and subscribers, handles retries and security, and moves millions of messages a month for a couple of euros. Live scripts create a Twitter list, auto-follow accounts, and push profile images to an HTML5 EventSource feed served by Sinatra; the services glue together and work on stage despite rate limits and spam.

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" chapters (6)

1. 0:00The monolithic problem
2. 1:24Introduction to PubSub
3. 2:32Propono gem overview
4. 3:45Live demo setup
5. 5:12Building twitter services
6. 11:20Face gallery and conclusion

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