This creature is capable of tremendous destruction due to it’s size, flight (with the creature’s wings also generating hurricane strength winds) and possesses several breath weapons (e.g., heat and energy). What am I talking about here? Maybe it’s Monster Zero or King Ghidorah as it’s sometimes known. No it’s TPL Dataflow!

What’s 100 meters high and weighs in at around 60,000 tons? No its not Godzilla, its Reactive extensions! Lately on one of my projects I have been doing a lot of stream manipulation, and although I solved the problem quite easily using F# async workflows, there were other solutions available to help solve the problem. I could of used things like async await, TPL Dataflow(TDF), and Reactive Extensions (Rx). This is going to be a short post on using Rx with F#.

Unless you live in a hole you have probably heard of node.js so Ill not bother to explain what it is or what it does. An interesting project has come to light lately, namely Edge.js. The Edge.js project allows you to connect node.js with .Net. The creator of Edge.js Tomasz Janczuk sums this up nicely: An edge connects two nodes This edge connects node.js with .NET Currently Edge.js is only available on Windows but there is work underway to bring this to Mono, thus opening up the possibilities [...]