In the previous blog post I've written about building a thread-safe state access by using actor programming model (as opposed to common practices requiring synchronization barriers with locks) without compromising performance coming with running our programs on multi-CPU machines. As…
Build your own actors
What the actor model is all about? While actors are very broad term, in Software Engineering we comonly refer to them when speaking about languages (like Erlang or Pony) or frameworks (like Akka or Orleans). Here however we'll try to…
State-based CRDTs: Bounded Counter
Originally, I didn't want to make a separate blog post about design behind bounded counters, but since beside original paper and a very few implementation living in the wild, this CRDT is widely unknown, I've decided to give it a…
Optimizing state-based CRDTs (part 2)
In this blog post we'll continue exploring the ideas behind optimizing state-based CRDTs. This is a third post from the series. If you haven't read them before this article and don't feel familiar with CRDTs, I advise you to do…
Optimizing state-based CRDTs (part 1)
Other posts from this series: An introduction to state-based CRDTs Optimizing state-based CRDTs (part 1) Optimizing state-based CRDTs (part 2) State-based CRDTs: BoundedCounter State-based CRDTs: Map Operation-based CRDTs: protocol Operation-based CRDTs: registers and sets Operation-based CRDTs: arrays Last time we've…
An introduction to state-based CRDTs
Other posts from this series: An introduction to state-based CRDTs Optimizing state-based CRDTs (part 1) Optimizing state-based CRDTs (part 2) State-based CRDTs: BoundedCounter State-based CRDTs: Map Operation-based CRDTs: protocol Operation-based CRDTs: registers and sets Operation-based CRDTs: arrays This is one…
Akka.Persistence: most common misconceptions
Akka.Persistence is one of the plugins, that introduce an eventsourced persistence mechanics into Akka.NET. However, I've often seen people having problems, since neither actors nor eventsourcing are part of mainstream .NET development. A lot of these are often…
[C#] Using gRPC with custom serializers
I've decided to write this post, because I've noticed a little lack of gRPC-related knowledge in .NET community. For those of you who are not familiar with it - gRPC is a standard protocol for defining high-performance RPC services, build…