Eight Ways to Handle Non-Blocking Returns in Message-Passing Programs – with Script
TBH, I am a big fan of actor- and reactor-like programming patterns (also known as Finite State Machines. While you’re not strictly required to use reactors and might be able to get away without them – they DO provide several very substantial benefits.
(Re)Actors, page 1/3 :
Allocator for (Re)Actors with Optional Kinda-Safety and Relocation
Quote:
“‘Safe with relocation’ mode will allow us to eliminate dreaded ‘external fragmentation’ – which tends to cause quite a bit of trouble for long-running systems”
Another Quote:
“For a long while, I have been a strong proponent of message-passing mechanisms over mutex-based thread sync for concurrency purposes”
Deterministic Components for Interactive Distributed Systems – with Transcript
Production Crashes. Post-factum Debugging. Logging. Replayable Deterministic Re(Actors)
Quote:
“I’ve seen game companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost per hour of unplanned server downtime.”
Another Quote:
“deterministic debugging is by far the best thing I have seen for production debugging.”
Determinism: Requirements vs Features
Abstract:
Apparently, in practice there is big difference between cross-platform determinism and same-executable determinism, both in abilities they can provide, and from implementation complexity point of view
Quote:
“Cross-platform determinism is the strictest definition of determinism I know; not surprisingly, there are quite a few factors which can break it”
Gradual OLTP DB Development – from Zero to 10 Billion Transactions per Year and Beyond
Quote:
“to make an efficient representation usable for OLAP – we need to modify our data on its way to OLAP replicas”
Another Quote:
“Each of the DB Server Apps is a replica master, but all replica targets are within the same Replica DB”
Historical Data in Databases. Audit Tables. Event Sourcing
Quote:
“99% of reporting requests and 99.9% of analytics is purely historical”
Another Quote:
“Information within the audit table should be sufficient to validate/justify current state”
