Far and Away (A Tour of DistribRuted Programming with Ruby)

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Shows working demos: remote method invocation via DRb that returns hashes but fails for custom User objects unless you share classes or use DRb references, plus a security example that can run system calls (undefining methods can trigger rm -rf). Shows Rinda for service discovery. Demonstrates Starling queues (logging, number adder) and recommends RabbitMQ/AMQP for production. Uses background jobs with delayed_job and DJ remixes to offload feed aggregation, turning a ~25s synchronous request into an immediate enqueue.

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1. 0:00Distributed programming intro
2. 5:07Remote method invocation with drb
3. 18:47Message queues use cases
4. 26:13Background jobs for long tasks
5. 32:32Demo: News reader background jobs

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