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

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In F# you can write an extension method like this: Whilst this will work perfectly fine in your F# code, the extension method will not be visible to any C# code using the FileInfo type because F# and C# compiles extension methods differently. To make C#-compatible extension methods in F#, here’s what you need to [...]