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On Sep 7, 2011 10:14 AM, "Neil Middleton" <<a href="mailto:neil.middleton@gmail.com">neil.middleton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Simply put - I've got a requirement to capture a crap load of data from an API and stuff it all into a queue to be processed later on. We would be receiving hundreds of new items per second, over a sustained period.<br>
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> We're looking at hosting on EngineYard so ideally need to stick with what's available there.<br>
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> We cannot really lose any of the received data before processing.<br>
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> Any ideas</p>
<p>In terms of technology why Ruby? Isn't this the kind of scenario that is just plain hard to do in Ruby and technologies like Erlang or node.js are better at?<br></p>