Concurrency is a domain I have wanted to explore for a long time because the locks and the race conditions have always intimidated me. I recall somebody suggesting concurrency patterns in golang because they said "you share the data and not the variables".
Amused by that, I searched for "concurrency in golang" and bumped into this awesome slide by Rob Pike: https://talks.golang.org/2012/waza.slide#1 which does a great job of explaining channels, concurrency patterns and a mini-architecture of load-balancer (also explains the above one-liner).
Let's dig in:
# Makefile for transpiling with Babel in a Node app, or in a client- or | |
# server-side shared library. | |
.PHONY: all clean | |
# Install `babel-cli` in a project to get the transpiler. | |
babel := node_modules/.bin/babel | |
# Identify modules to be transpiled by recursively searching the `src/` | |
# directory. |
// Usage: | |
// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread | |
// then use as follows: | |
// | |
// query(term | [term, term, ...], term | [term, term, ...], ...) | |
// | |
// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and" | |
// | |
// Term is of the format: | |
// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation ) |
user web; | |
# One worker process per CPU core. | |
worker_processes 8; | |
# Also set | |
# /etc/security/limits.conf | |
# web soft nofile 65535 | |
# web hard nofile 65535 | |
# /etc/default/nginx |
(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
- Dynamic Dispatch
- Dynamic Method
- Ghost Methods
- Dynamic Proxies
- Blank Slate
- Kernel Method
- Flattening the Scope (aka Nested Lexical Scopes)
- Context Probe
- Class Eval (not really a 'spell' more just a demonstration of its usage)
- Class Macros
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal | |
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048 |
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13:16 <merijn> | Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel | |
| compelled to write Node.js! | |
13:16 <genisage> | hi | |
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| haskell to javascript now |
A slightly updated version of this doc is here on my website.
I visited with PagerDuty yesterday for a little Friday beer and pizza. While there I got started talking about Go. I was asked by Alex, their CEO, why I liked it. Several other people have asked me the same question recently, so I figured it was worth posting.
The first 1/2 of Go's concurrency story. Lightweight, concurrent function execution. You can spawn tons of these if needed and the Go runtime multiplexes them onto the configured number of CPUs/Threads as needed. They start with a super small stack that can grow (and shrink) via dynamic allocation (and freeing). They are as simple as go f(x)
, where f()
is a function.