In 2016 pretty much every commercial software system built with modern tech is a distributed system. Yes, we all build distributed systems these days. Obviously, the term "distributed" is very spacious - I'm not saying we're all creating stuff like eventually consisted, sharded data stores (should be left to specialists...
February is over, so it was a high time to open the conference season in 2015 already ;P Due to practical reasons I carefully track such events that happen in Poland (not much to be tracked, but the number is increasing from year to year) - that's how I found...
I've spend yesterday's early evening on presenting about Reactive Extensions [https://rx.codeplex.com/] (Rx) for professional local .NET enthusiast User Group in Warsaw - WG.NET [http://www.wg.net.pl/]. To be honest I didn't expect many people to come: * it's still August & many people are on vacation...
Private advertisement mode ON In about 1-1.5 week time I'll be presenting about Reactive Programming in .NET at WG.NET [http://www.wg.net.pl/]. The final date is not confirmed yet (it should be very soon & I'll update this post for sure), but it should be around 21st...
Majority of my co-workers and acquaintances associate me (and my professional work) with the .NET stack. This association is so strong that when I tell them about my recent works with Scala/Akka, they think I'm nuts (or close to): > What's the point of learning another stack if you've committed...
Reactive applications. Scalable & responsive. Resilient & fault-tolerant. Event-driven & asynchronuous. The benefits of RAs are well and commonly known (if you're not up-to-date, make sure you get yourself familiar with Reactive Manifesto: start with the following link [http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/#reactive-applications]), but it's not the benefits I'd like to write about...
