Ryan Smith is an engineer at Heroku.com. He wrote the queueclassic library in Ruby. He was a speaker at RailsConf talking about the Worker Pattern. He blogs at and tweets at br We talked about several things, including:br br Heroku (the company and the service)br Salesforce’s acquisition of Herokubr queue classicbr postgresqlbr the Worker Patternbr He also mentioned these things in relation to the topics we discussed.