By Anthony Williams
This article explores how to synchronize concurrent operations in the C++ programming language and how this relates to threads and their respective function.
By Chris Richardson
In this article, you will learn about various strategies for breaking up applications into their component services, and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
By Kalle Rosenbaum
By Riccardo Terrell
In this article, we discuss the need for concurrency, common issues specific to developing concurrent applications in either imperative or object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming, and why the functional programming paradigm is ideal for solving common concurrency issues.
By Marko Lukša
It goes without saying that we want client requests to be handled properly. We obviously don’t want to see broken connections when pods are starting up or shutting down. By itself, Kubernetes doesn’t ensure this never happens. Your app needs to follow a few rules to prevent broken connections. This article discusses those rules.
By J.J. Geewax
This article explores Google Cloud Platform data center locations and how to choose which data center (and cloud service provider) is right for you and your customers in terms of geographic location.
By Anthony Brown
Akka.Net provides several implementations of the core routing logic to allow for a variety of techniques for distributing messages through the router to its routees. These routers allow for a wide variety of behaviours which ultimately allow us to continue to build applications that remain responsive even under intense load. In this article, we’ll look at the routers included with Akka.Net and the advantages they provide.
By Richard Rodger
The term microservices invites you to think in terms of services. You are naturally drawn to ask the question, What are the microservices in this system? Resist that temptation. Microservice systems are powerful because they allow you to think in terms of messages. If you take a messages-first approach to your system design, you free yourself from premature implementation decisions. The intended behavior of the system can be described in terms of a language of messages, independent of the underlying microservices that generate and react to those messages.
By Matt Lacey
In this article, you will learn about designing apps that don’t rely on single sense interaction, but instead take advantage of multiple senses to provide a better user experience.
By Ken Finnigan
Just enough Application Server (JeAS) is a term has been used on occasion over the years, but usually in relation to customizing a full application server by removing functionality manually. Only with the popularity of microservices has JeAS become crucial for Enterprise Java. This article talks about what JeAS means and some of its benefits.