[grogenaut]

True good point. I still maintain that it's not a great idea in production and it really doesn't scale. I did stuff like this in single host servers in rails as well. Turns out to not be so repeatable and not a great idea in prod. Also isn't great if you bring down one node of prod or if you have a load that takes more than one box worth of processing.

[technomancy]

I agree, but I would qualify that claim: it's not a great idea in production because the tooling to support doing it well doesn't exist, not necessarily because of limitations in the language.