Reactive Systems: Actor Model and Akka.NET

Building concurrent applications is hard. Building distributed applications is hard. And building robust resilient applications is also hard. Making use of the Actor model using Akka.NET makes these things easier. There are many things to consider when building reactive systems. The Reactive Manifesto describes the general characteristics of such system at https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ and Akka.NET adheres … Read more

JavaScript Module System

Separate and Abstract code in its own scope, making it accessible and included again! That’s the thing which JavaScript module systems help us to achieve. JavaScript applications tend to grow fast and without any kind of structure in-place, it would be very hard to keep a cleaner code-base. Traditionally different techniques like IIFE, Revealing Module … Read more

Network Programming – Setting the Scene

In Jonathan swift’s satirical novel, Gulliver’s travels, Gulliver comes across two neighboring islands, Lilliput and Blefuscu. Two factions there at a war, the little-endians (Lilliput) and the big-endians (Blefuscu) and dispute concerns, which end of a boiled egg you should open. Well now a days, it would be nice to think that the world would … Read more