My new book, Distributed Programming with Ruby, is now available on Amazon.com.

Coverage includes • Writing robust, secure, and interactive applications using DRb—and managing its drawbacks • Using Rinda to build applications with improved flexibility, fault tolerance, and service discovery • Simplifying DRb service management with RingyDingy • Utilizing Starfish to facilitate communication between distributed programs and to write MapReduce functions for processing large data sets • Providing reliable distributed queuing with the low-overhead Starling messaging server • Implementing comprehensive enterprise messaging with RabbitMQ and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) • Offloading heavyweight tasks with BackgrounDRb and DelayedJob