EventMachine is a

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designed for writing highly

scalable Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work. One definition for software systems specifies that this may be done by adding resources to the system. In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that ...

applications for

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. It provides event-driven I/O using the

reactor pattern The reactor software design pattern is an event handling strategy that can respond to many potential service requests concurrently. The pattern's key component is an event loop, running in a ''single'' thread or process, which demultiplexes inc ...

. EventMachine is the most popular library for

concurrent computing Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed '' concurrently''—during overlapping time periods—instead of ''sequentially—''with one completing before the next starts. This is a property of a syst ...

in the

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Example uses

EventMachine has been used to build a number of different libraries and frameworks in which concurrency is a performance concern. Some examples include: * critical networked applications * web servers and proxies * email and IM production systems * authentication/authorization processors

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EventMachine
on GitHub {{Ruby programming language Free network-related software Ruby (programming language)

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