Week 50, year 2014

• I/O Threads Explained - Microsoft has released async/await feature in .Net 4.5. It’s a really great stuff as it significantly simplifies one of the most painful areas - asynchronous programming. Before that, Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) were released in .Net 4.0. They address problems with parallel programming - another painful area in .Net. I often see programmers struggling with a question when to use each of these features. Let’s step back and recall what does it actually mean to be asynchronous or parallel. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]
• Let It Crash - “Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World, 2nd ed” by Joe Armstrong, is not just a great introduction to the language, but also offers a glimpse into the “Let It Crash” philosophy that drives it. It’s a great read, even if you have no intention of programming in Erlang. I’ve selected and reordered a number of passages that were scattered across the book, and added some comments, that I hope will do the book justice. The Erlang view of the world is that everything is a process and that processes can interact only by exchanging messages. Having such a view of the world imposes conceptual integrity on our designs, making them easier to understand. The real world actually has independent things communicating through messages. [Mathias Verraes]

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