Leaderless Replication
Introduction I have been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. (I heard of the book via a review Henrik Warne posted on his blog. I encourage you to read Henrik’s blog- excellent content, clearly articulated). I am only a third of the way through the book but can already say it is one of the best technical computer books I have ever read. As I said in a comment I left on Henrik’s blog, Martin Kleppmann has put a lot of effort into writing clearly and without pretension. He doesn’t use terms without defining the concepts behind them. And […]
Async Does Not Imply Concurrent
I wish authors who write articles about C# async / await programming techniques would emphasize that two concepts they frequently discuss are actually separate features that provide separate benefits. Perhaps I’ve overlooked an explanation of the orthogonality of async and concurrent in the restaurant or cooking breakfast analogies. (Update 2020 Jul 30: The cooking breakfast article has been updated and draws a clearer distinction between async work and parallel / concurrent work). Nonetheless, it will benefit readers of this blog to disentangle the concepts here. It’s easy for novice programmers to write incorrect code and believe they’re getting performance benefits […]
