Comment by danielszm

I wonder why nobody ever talks about drb, a distributed system that ships with ruby. It's active in Japan, and there has been an effort to make it better known in the rest of the world with a book dedicated to the topic in english (published by Pragmatic Programmers). Still, it hasn't stirred much interest. Even if it's less advanced than DCell, it's still a recommended way to start learning about distributed computing.