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Patrick Van Stee
July 11, 2012
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Celluloid & DCell
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Transcript
Celluloid DCell &
@vanstee github.com/vanstee Patrick Van Stee highgroove.com
@tarcieri Revactor Reia nio4r Cryptosphere cool.io
brew install zeromq gem install dcell Setup
Celluloid General purpose concurrency framework for Ruby built on the
Actor Model
class Counter attr_reader :count def initialize @count = 0 end
def increment @count += 1 end end
class Counter attr_reader :count def initialize @count = 0 @mutex
= Mutex.new end def increment @mutex.synchronize do @count += 1 end end end
Threads are hard!
class Counter include Celluloid attr_reader :count def initialize @count =
0 end def increment @count += 1 end end
Actor Model
•No shared state •Communicate with messages •Process messages sequentially
class Counter include Celluloid def increment(count, actor) return count if
count < 10000 actor.increment( count + 1, Actor.current ) end end
& Asynchronous Method Calls Futures
counter = Counter.new # returns immediately counter.increment! puts counter.count #
returns immediately future = counter.future :increment puts future.value
module Enumerable def map(&block) futures = map do |item| Celluloid::Future.new(
item, &block ) end futures.map(&:value) end end
Caveats
• The GIL in MRI does not allow parallelism •
Threads and Fibers are expensive • Concurrency is still a hard problem [not really]
DCell
Celluloid General purpose concurrency framework for Ruby built on the
Actor Model DCell Distributed Celluloid over 0MQ
“I thought of objects being like biological cells or individual
computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages. Alan Kay
• Exposes Actors on the Network • Send messages as
you normally would
DRb DCell Threads Actors
Demo
Also Checkout Sidekiq
github.com celluloid/celluloid celluloid/dcell
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