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 by adding resources to the system. In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that a company can increase sales given increased resources. For example, a ...

applications for

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. It provides event-driven I/O using the

reactor pattern The reactor design pattern is an event handling pattern for handling service requests delivered concurrently to a service handler by one or more inputs. The service handler then demultiplexes the incoming requests and dispatches them synchrono ...

. 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 sys ...

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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