Building Scalable Systems Safely in Ruby with Samuel Williams

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Building Scalable Systems Safely in Ruby with Samuel Williams

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90 minutes

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Nov 5, 2019

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Samuel Williams explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism, the dangers of writing multi-threaded code, how languages like Node, Go, and Erlang safely handle parallelism, and how to build scalable systems safely.

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Nov 5, 2019

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Building Scalable Systems Safely in Ruby with Samuel Williams: Samuel Williams explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism, the dangers of writing multi-threaded code, how languages like Node, Go, and Erlang safely handle parallelism, and how to build scalable systems safely. by Software Sessions
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Building Scalable Systems Safely in Ruby with Samuel Williams

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