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Take some database courses, learn about transactions and isolation models, maybe some do some distributed systems courses, learn about agreement protocols, fail
by jamesblonde 12y ago
Take some database courses, learn about transactions and isolation models, maybe some do some distributed systems courses, learn about agreement protocols, failure models, recovery models....
- fiatmoney 12y agoSome may think the OP is joking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzjIP6O4kEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzjIP6O4kEo
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- throwawayaway 12y agoscoff all you want, that's a better explanation of threading and the dangers entailed than I got in a whole semester of my undergrad. there's an art in explaining something complex simply.
- hamburglar 12y agoI'm sorry, but that talk is depressing. It starts with a grand statement that there's no such thing as threadsafe ruby code, and as a demonstration of that, it shows multithreaded code written by someone who had apparently never heard of synchronization primitives. It then goes on to explain how to use synchronization primitives to make your code threadsafe. It's like watching someone discover error handling for the first time.
- throwawayaway 12y ago> who had apparently never heard of synchronization primitives. i think that's the nub of our difference of opinion. i saw that as a ruse, i don't genuinely believe that the presenter never heard of them.
- revelation 12y agoWhy do they even have a Ruby driver? Isn't FFI a thing in ruby?
- steveklabnik 12y agoA pure Ruby driver makes it available on JRuby, which doesn't handle the FFI as well.
- ufo 12y agoWhats the issue with that video? (I can't watch a full 27 min presentation right now)
- nkozyra 12y agoOK, I laughed.
- fapjacks 12y agoExactly. Thank you.