Thoughts on Software
Sometimes, there are cases when we need a Search Solution for a hobby project but don’t want to spend extra time and money in having a Lucene or some other form of abstraction of Lucene, such as Solr or ElasticSearch. If you’re working with MySQL (or even better, with Postgres), then you’re in luck – there’s a way to have a quick and dirty search solution for your dear project.
So here are… I’ve redone my blog yet again. I’ve been moving to different platforms over the past several years, I’ve tried WordPress, Umbraco, Ghost and Jekyll, but seems that I have to settle with WordPress for now.
Jekyll has actually been great for what it was, it was simple, you created your template files, standards css and js – you know, the normal front-end setup, and it worked beautifully.
The thing that made Jekyll stand out for me was the performance, it’s plain ol’ HTML, no crazy scripts that execute a lot of things in the background and spitting out HTML – it’s literally just serving plain HTML with nothing in between. This came with some downsides, however – some downsides that maybe wouldn’t really matter for everyone, but they matter to me.
Everyone eventually rewrites either a small piece of code, an entire application or framework or refactor their work, and this process is in a constant cycle. You notice this everywhere, from small applications, libraries, frameworks and even Enterprise Software. Should we be concerned? Why is this such a common theme?
For Applications, one of the primary reasons for refactoring or rewriting is technical debt, so let’s have a look at some common reasons for technical debt, and I attempt to propose some solutions to each point.
The concept of concurrency is not an easy concept to grasp, when dealing with concurrency – the main enemy when doing any task in parallel are shared resources. This is why functional programming as a concept has gotten a lot of attention due to it’s potential in this modern age where there is an abundant amount of CPU core’s, making it much more scalable for parallel computing.
What about the Object Oriented Approach? well, we’ve been dealing with concurrency problems for quite some time, and in .NET, we have the we have the Task Parallel Library (TPL). TPL makes concurrency patterns easier to implement. Let’s have a look at one of the most common problems in concurrency – race conditions.