Ryan Smith is an engineer at Heroku.com. He wrote the queue_classic library in Ruby. He was a speaker at RailsConf talking about the Worker Pattern. He blogs at http://ryandotsmith.heroku.com/ and tweets at http://twitter.com/ryandotsmith
We talked about several things, including:
Heroku (the company and the service)
Salesforce’s acquisition of Heroku
queue classic
postgresql
the Worker Pattern
He also mentioned these things in relation to the topics we discussed.
h-store
mvcc
postgres wiki
web sockets
