Conquering Rust Concurrency with the Actor Model
The actor model, especially when paired with Rust's safety, provides a more approachable way to build and maintain complex, concurrent software systems.…
In Elixir, everything is a process
I set myself an interesting/unreasonable challenge with this one - trying to explain everything that makes Elixir special in a single post.…
A Brief Exploration of Traits and Lifetimes in Rust
In this post, I'll show how traits and lifetimes serve similar purposes to concepts like interfaces in OOP, but with some important differences.…
Using C++ Was Supposed to Make Me Appreciate Rust...
Instead, I ended up liking it more than Rust.…
Making Sense of Concurrency in Go
This is my best attempt at plugging the holes in my understanding of concurrency. It ends with me building a concurrent word count application.…
Learning About Rust Smart Pointers Through Linked Lists
I heard someone say that implementing a linked list in Rust is not for the faint of heart. Here's what I learned from trying to do just that.…
JavaScript is Making The Web Inaccessible
An over-reliance on JavaScript as the core of many websites, most of which don't benefit anything from it, is making the internet inaccessible to many users with low-end devices.…
Exploring Pub/Sub for Building Scalable Systems in Go
In this article, we will see how publish/subscribe allows us to build resilient, loosely coupled, and scalable systems that align more with the demands of modern data-intensive, distributed applications.…