file-server

Today I received my invite from Google Google Storage for Developers. Yes, like most of us, my life if wrapped in layers of googliness. In this post I'm going to review briefly what Google Storage is and upload the image files, for the images you see in this post, using the Google Storage Manager.

In this post I will explain the concept behind zero-copy, which is feature of the Linux allowing for faster transfer of data between pipes, file-descriptors and sockets. I will demonstrate how you can use this functionality in your Ruby projects using a code example. This functionality has been implemented in C, Java, Ruby, Perl and nameless other languages, but in this blog I will focus on the Ruby usage.