exploring the actor concurrency primitives in ruby and pointing out options in other languages.

1. Actors on Stage
@elise_huard NordicRuby 2011

2. Context

3. “Concurrency is hard”

5. “Shared and Mutable
State”

6. “Why Bother?”

7. Actors

8. “Actor Model”
(1973)

9. “No Global State”
“Actors”
“Partial Order of Execution”

10. “What is Important to me is
not the Truth Outside myself,
but the Truth Within myself.”
Konstantin Stanislavski

11. Ruby

12. “Rubinius Actors”
“Celluloid”

13. “MRI”

14. Foreign lands

15. “Erlang”

16. “Scala and Clojure”

17. Epilogue

18. “Better Concurrency
Primitives in stdlib?”

19. Conference
NordicRuby 2011
Technical assistant and Animation
Joseph A Wilk
Sponsor
Forward
Pictures
Modern Times (1936)
Sherlock Jr (1924)
Safety Last (1923)
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
The Doll (1919)
Intolerance (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
Documentation
http://www.delicious.com/elisehuard/concurrency

20. The End