On.System Architecture
System Architecture (and it’s subfield Software Architecture) is a discipline which is surprisingly poorly covered. In a sense, it is still more an art than a science, and usually requires somebody intimately familiar with practical systems, to tell what’s to do and what’s to avoid when building a system.
IT Hares have lots of experience in both Software Architecture and more general System Architecture, and are trying to share their knowledge (and more importantly, their feelings) about them.
CAS (Re)Actor for Non-Blocking Multithreaded Primitives
July 23, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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in 2017, I started to feel that the Dark Ages of mutex-based thread sync were over
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Another issue which almost universally rears its ugly head when speaking about not-so-trivial uses of CAS is the so-called ABA problem.
Filed under: On.System Architecture(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingTips and Tricks
Read moreUnchecked Exceptions for C++
June 7, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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‘unchecked’ std::errors are treated as ‘something which should never ever happen, but in practice MAY occur as a result of potentially-recoverable bug'
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Failing-Fast does NOT mean we should necessarily Fail-Hard(!). In certain (production!) cases, Failing-Fast-AND-Soft IS a substantially better alternative.
Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDesign decisionsOn.ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesOn.DevelopmentDevelopment Philosophy
“Multi-Coring" and “Non-Blocking“ instead of "Multi-Threading" - with a Script
April 17, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
Abstract:
My talk at ACCU2018
Filed under: On.System Architecture(Re)ActorsOtherAnnouncements
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