Ryan Smith is an engineer at Heroku.com. He wrote the queue_classic library in Ruby. He was a speaker at RailsConf talking about the Worker Pattern. He blogs at http://ryandotsmith.heroku.com/ and tweets at http://twitter.com/ryandotsmith<br /><br />We talked about several things, including:<br /><br />Heroku (the company and the service)<br />Salesforce’s acquisition of Heroku<br />queue classic<br />postgresql<br />the Worker Pattern<br />He also mentioned these things in relation to the topics we discussed.<br /><br />h-store<br />mvcc<br />postgres wiki<br />web sockets
