Introduction to AP4R

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AP4R is a Ruby messaging library that claims lightweight API and seamless Rails integration and guaranteed delivery via SAF (store and forward); it uses a reliable-message backend with MySQL persistence, dispatcher threads that push over HTTP/XML-RPC/DLUB, and configurable thread counts to separate busy vs heavy jobs. Real deployments include a UK web game (a few hundred messages/hour, two ap4 servers) and a mobile SMS gateway (≈1,000+ messages/day). A demo shows 100 concurrent requests cut user latency while background tasks drain steadily.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:30pen source
3. 4:23ter solution
4. 6:02to scale out
5. 12:38ionnaire results
6. 21:07Protocols
7. 21:31kinds of tasks
8. 22:59Outline
9. 35:17R@RubyForge

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