Crystal: Let's hack together at OpenSource Global Hack Week!

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A new Crystal blog post/announcement has been posted!

It’s an established fact that we in the Crystal language community are kind of obsessed with high-performance software. While Crystal does a pretty good job of helping you write extremely fast applications which run on minimal resources, there’s limits to the scalability that any language can let you reach when it comes to distributed systems. At some point (probably quite early indeed), you need to turn to your system’s architecture design to ensure you can sustain high and unpredictable loads.

One of the foundational architectural Lego blocks to address this kind of challenge is the good ol’ queue. Using queues you can make your applications resilient to sudden excesses in demand, impose order, maximize parallelism given your resource availability, develop self-healing mechanisms, and a long list of other superpowers.

Needless to say, building a fast, reliable, secure and feature rich queue system is Hard(TM). Luckily, us crystallers are in fantastic hands in th...

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