diff --git a/btrdb/conn.py b/btrdb/conn.py
index e3b6e5a..bfb0eb8 100644
--- a/btrdb/conn.py
+++ b/btrdb/conn.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 from btrdb.stream import Stream, StreamSet
 from btrdb.utils.general import unpack_stream_descriptor
 from btrdb.utils.conversion import to_uuid
-from btrdb.exceptions import NotFound
+from btrdb.exceptions import NotFound, InvalidOperation
 
 ##########################################################################
 ## Module Variables
@@ -346,3 +346,6 @@ def collection_metadata(self, prefix):
         pyTags = {tag.key: tag.count for tag in tags}
         pyAnn = {ann.key: ann.count for ann in annotations}
         return pyTags, pyAnn
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        raise InvalidOperation("BTrDB object cannot be reduced.")
diff --git a/btrdb/utils/ray.py b/btrdb/utils/ray.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8df9527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/btrdb/utils/ray.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+from functools import partial
+
+import ray
+
+import btrdb
+from btrdb.conn import BTrDB
+
+def register_serializer(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
+    """
+    Register serializer for BTrDB Object
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    conn_str: str, default=None
+        The address and port of the cluster to connect to, e.g. `192.168.1.1:4411`.
+        If set to None, will look in the environment variable `$BTRDB_ENDPOINTS`
+        (recommended).
+    apikey: str, default=None
+        The API key used to authenticate requests (optional). If None, the key
+        is looked up from the environment variable `$BTRDB_API_KEY`.
+    profile: str, default=None
+        The name of a profile containing the required connection information as
+        found in the user's predictive grid credentials file
+        `~/.predictivegrid/credentials.yaml`.
+    """
+    ray.register_custom_serializer(
+    BTrDB, serializer=btrdb_serializer, deserializer=partial(btrdb_deserializer, conn_str=conn_str, apikey=apikey, profile=profile))
+
+def btrdb_serializer(_):
+    """
+    sererialize function
+    """
+    return None
+
+def btrdb_deserializer(_, conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
+    """
+    deserialize function
+    
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    conn_str: str, default=None
+        The address and port of the cluster to connect to, e.g. `192.168.1.1:4411`.
+        If set to None, will look in the environment variable `$BTRDB_ENDPOINTS`
+        (recommended).
+    apikey: str, default=None
+        The API key used to authenticate requests (optional). If None, the key
+        is looked up from the environment variable `$BTRDB_API_KEY`.
+    profile: str, default=None
+        The name of a profile containing the required connection information as
+        found in the user's predictive grid credentials file
+        `~/.predictivegrid/credentials.yaml`.
+    Returns
+    -------
+    db : BTrDB
+        An instance of the BTrDB context to directly interact with the database.
+    """
+    return btrdb.connect(conn_str=conn_str, apikey=apikey, profile=profile)
diff --git a/docs/source/working.rst b/docs/source/working.rst
index 46d5cba..8773907 100644
--- a/docs/source/working.rst
+++ b/docs/source/working.rst
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ to interact with the BTrDB database.
   working/stream-view-data
   working/streamsets
   working/multiprocessing
+  working/ray
diff --git a/docs/source/working/ray.rst b/docs/source/working/ray.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98a7fbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/source/working/ray.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+Working with Ray
+================================
+
+To use BTrDB connection, stream and streamsets objects in the parallelization library ray,
+a special serializer is required. BTrDB provides  a utility function that register the serializer with ray.
+An example is shown below.
+
+Setting up the ray serializer
+-----------------------------
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    import btrdb
+    import ray
+    from btrdb.utils.ray import register_serializer
+
+    uuids = ["b19592fc-fb71-4f61-9d49-8646d4b1c2a1",
+             "07b2cff3-e957-4fa9-b1b3-e14d5afb1e63"]
+    ray.init()
+
+    conn_params = {"profile": "profile_name"}
+    
+    # register serializer with the connection parameters
+    register_serializer(**conn_params)
+
+    conn = btrdb.connect(**conn_params)
+
+    # BTrDB connection object can be passed as an argument
+    # to a ray remote function
+    @ray.remote
+    def test_btrdb(conn):
+        print(conn.info())
+
+    # Stream object can be passed as an argument
+    # to a ray remote function
+    @ray.remote
+    def test_stream(stream):
+        print(stream.earliest())
+
+    # StreamSet object can be passed as an argument
+    # to a ray remote function
+    @ray.remote
+    def test_streamset(streamset):
+        print(streamset.earliest())
+        print(streamset)
+
+
+    ids = [test_btrdb.remote(conn),
+        test_stream.remote(conn.stream_from_uuid(uuids[0])),
+        test_streamset.remote(conn.streams(*uuids))]
+
+    ray.get(ids)
+    # output of test_btrdb
+    >>(pid=28479) {'majorVersion': 5, 'build': '5.10.5', 'proxy': {'proxyEndpoints': []}}
+    # output of test_stream
+    >>(pid=28482) (RawPoint(1533210100000000000, 0.0), 0)
+    # output of test_streamset
+    >>(pid=28481) (RawPoint(1533210100000000000, 0.0), RawPoint(1533210100000000000, 0.0))
+    >>(pid=28481) StreamSet with 2 streams
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