I don't really know why this is an article. So, uh, the author has discovered that you can fork/exec a process? I'm not sure what is novel or interesting that i

I don't really know why this is an article. So, uh, the author has discovered that you can fork/exec a process? I'm not sure what is novel or interesting that is presented here. This article could have been written in 1998, titled "Using C to improve your Perl application's performance". I'll say this about this strategy. For most web apps (and ruby is mostly used in webapps), it's usually more robust to just write a go background worker listening over RabbitMQ or the like and just shove messages around as a service.