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

We talked about several things, including:

• Heroku (the company and the service)
• Salesforce's acquisition of Heroku
• queue classic
• postgresql
• the Worker Pattern

He also mentioned these things in relation to the topics we discussed.

• h-store
• mvcc
• postgres wiki
• web sockets