Consider replacing EventMachine with a more modern alternative

[mattheworiordan]

See https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby. It's an active project, where the community is headed, and has no additional dependencies!

EventMachine is arguably at EOL now, and issues in CI continue to plague this library: https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine/issues/886

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