6 engineers on Hacker News describe using EventMachine first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I've deployed several production apps (gaming/messaging servers) using EventMachine... I'm pretty comfortable with its performance and limitations.”
endorse · production · johnkchow · 2012-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a lot of problems with EM blocking networks connections if an event loop was tying up CPU”
regret · production · dacort · 2012-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using em in production also and I am seeing quite few bugs too.”
mixed · production · toisanji · 2011-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EventMachine is absolutely rock solid. I have gotten a lot of work done with it.”
endorse · production · kyledrake · 2011-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“lots of C extensions and eventmachine servers running in threads.”
neutral · production · eduardordm · 2013-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We experimented with sinatra async, eventmachine and node.js”
neutral · personal · mickeyben · 2012-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?