Obie Fernandez, Series Editor Complete, Hands-On Guide to Building Advanced Distributed Applications with Ruby distributed applications programming techniques make it easier to scale, develop, and deploy? especially in the emerging cloud computing environment. Mark Bates began with a simple distributed application, and then walk through a series of increasingly complex examples, demonstrate solutions to the most common problems for distributed programming. Bates presents the industry's most useful coverage of Ruby? S standard programming libraries distributed, DRB and Rinda. If you? Return an experienced Ruby programmer or architect, this hands-on tutorials and practical reference will help you meet all the challenges of distributed programming, no matter how complex. Coverage includes ? Utilizing Starfish to facilitate communication between distributed programs and to write the functions for processing MapReduce large data sets ? Providing reliable distributed queuing with low overhead messaging server Starling ? Demolition job heavyweight with BackgrounDRb and DelayedJob