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Patterns in Distributed Processing

Mike Perham

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Server-side data processing can be difficult to get right with requirements like fault tolerance, consistency or real time response. We'll look at some generic characteristics of all distributed processing problems, examine open source tools which you can use to solve distributed computing problems and review a few Ruby examples to see their strengths and weaknesses.


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