While you may hear a lot of harsh words about Rust is this rant, that doesn't have to mean it's a bad language. Rephrasing the classic: there are two types of programming languages: ones that people…
threading
A collection of 7 posts
Reading tens of thousands of Redis Streams at the time
In this blog post we'll discuss challenges and solutions for concurrent reading from massive amount of Redis streams without running into limitations of the Redis protocol or our machine resources. First let's describe our problem. We…
Let's write async-compatible read/write lock
Today, we're going to discuss .NET locks API, how are they (un)fit for the async workflows and thread-pool backed runtimes and what can we do about it. We'll also challenge some of the decades…
Data Loaders
Have you ever run into N+1 select problems with your GraphQL endpoint? If so, don't worry anymore. Today we're going to generalize and solve this kind of issues as well as discuss and explain the…
Building custom fibers library in F#
Over the course of last few months on this blog post, I've been sharing about internals and how-to of different concurrency patters. We discussed how to implement our own actors [https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/build-your-own-…
Thread safety with affine thread pools
In the previous blog post [https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/build-your-own-actor-model/] I've written about building a thread-safe state access by using actor programming model (as opposed to common practices requiring synchronization barriers with locks)…
Build your own actors
What the actor model is all about? While actors are very broad term, in Software Engineering we comonly refer to them when speaking about languages (like Erlang or Pony) or frameworks (like Akka or Orleans). Here however we'll…