{"product_id":"9780321699930","title":"Distributed Programming with Ruby","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eComplete, Hands-On Guide to Building Advanced Distributed Applications with Ruby\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDistributed programming techniques make applications easier to scale, develop, and deploy—especially in emerging cloud computing environments. Now, one of the Ruby community’s leading experts has written the first definitive guide to distributed programming with Ruby. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMark Bates begins with a simple distributed application, and then walks through an increasingly complex series of examples, demonstrating solutions to the most common distributed programming problems.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBates presents the industry’s most useful coverage of Ruby’s standard distributed programming libraries, DRb and Rinda. Next, he introduces powerful third-party tools, frameworks, and libraries designed to simplify Ruby distributed programming, including his own Distribunaut. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIf you’re an experienced Ruby programmer or architect, this hands-on tutorial and practical reference will help you meet any distributed programming challenge, no matter how complex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCoverage includes\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e  \u003cli\u003eWriting robust, secure, and interactive applications using DRb—and managing its drawbacks\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eUsing Rinda to build applications with improved flexibility, fault tolerance, and service discovery\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eSimplifying DRb service management with RingyDingy\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eUtilizing Starfish to facilitate communication between distributed programs and to write MapReduce functions for processin large data sets\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eUsing Politics to customize the processes running on individual server instances in a cloud computing environment\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eProviding reliable distributed queuing with the low-overhead Starling messaging server\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eImplementing comprehensive enterprise messaging with RabbitMQ and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eOffloading heavyweight tasks with BackgrounDRb and DelayedJob\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120868770032,"sku":"9780321699930","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780321699930_p0.jpg?v=1763682277","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780321699930","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}