A-5 Yehuda Katz : Advancing Net::HTTP

Presentation Material(PDF)

Date

September 5 (Mon.) 16:15-17:00

Room

Hall-A (International Conference Hall 3F)

Speaker

Yehuda Katz
(Strobe, Inc.)

Speaker’s profile

Yehuda Katz is a member of the SproutCore, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; during the daytime, he works as Chief Technologist at Strobe. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, the upcoming Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open source—his main projects, along with others, like Thor, Handlebars and Janus—or traveling the world doing evangelism work. He blogs at http://yehudakatz.com and can be found on Twitter as @wycats.

Presentation title

Advancing Net::HTTP

Presentation outline

Net::HTTP is a great Ruby HTTP library. In this talk, I will talk about the technical details of my improvements to Net::HTTP. I will talk about why a pure-Ruby reactor is a good idea, and how existing protocol libraries can be improved to make it easy to have asynchronous operations without special async versions.