With the official release of .Net 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012, I suspect many .Net developers will be rushing to rewrite their data access or network layers (amongst many many other things!) to take advantage of the new async-await (see the excellent 101 examples here) language feature in C#, which means you’ll likely be working [...]

In Erlang, we have the Supervisor behaviour which makes it very easy to provide the means to monitor and restart a whole network of workers and other supervisors based on some configured strategy. The MailboxProcessor (aka agents) in F# doesn’t come with the same higher-level abstractions (such as Erlang’s gen_server, gen_fsm behaviours) by default, but [...]

This is my list of takeaways from a very good talk by Theo Schlossnagle on things you should be thinking about when designing a system for large scale. I hope you enjoy the talk as much as I did, it certainly leaves plenty of food for thought and personally it is encouraging to see that [...]

This is a list of my takeaways from the excellent talk between Erik Meijer (of the LINQ and Rx fame), Carl Hewitt (creator of the Actor model) and Clemens Szyperski, on the Actor model.   Disclaimer : this conversation revolves around the conceptual model of an actor, as opposed to specific implementations of the Actor [...]

This is so good I keep going back to it, so to save myself and you the hassle of searching for it every time I thought I’d share it here on my blog, enjoy! Ten^H^H^H Many Cloud App Design Patterns from Shlomo Swidler