Posted by Daniel Tue, 15 May 2007 15:02:00 GMT

Distributed Ruby Workers on EC2: Simply put, DRb allows you to interact with remote objects via TCP as if they were located right on your system. Hence, to avoid locking our server, we will simply get another computer to perform the time-consuming task for us. Of course, now you’re saying: where am I going to get another computer? Well, how about Amazon’s EC2 [EC2 is clearly a game changer.]