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I just finished reading this last week. I can see where certain sections need to be updated as they are less relevant in today's coding world. Some of the topi
by UncleSam 7y ago
I just finished reading this last week. I can see where certain sections need to be updated as they are less relevant in today's coding world.
Some of the topics covered in the book grew and became more popular (Unit testing frameworks like JUnit) and some did not (Blackboards).
- jon-wood 7y agoThe general concept of a blackboard is basically describing pubsub systems like Kafka - you throw a bunch of data into a queue, and anything that’s interested can grab that information, and potentially then publish further information built on top of it.
- riffraff 7y agoI may not remember correctly but I think blackboards were tuplespaces, which have some differences with plain pubsub, though they can both be used to solve some of the same problems.
- dragonwriter 7y agoBlackboards are very different from pubsub/queues. They are more like shared DB integration.
- p_l 7y agoAn example of a blackboard system in the wild that many would be exposed to today is kubernetes