Episode 80: Concurrency

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Intro

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News/Links

• 15 Years of SparkFun
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• Build a CPU in the web browser
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• Jason:
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Concurrency (29:15)

• Why?
• Getting more work done
• Handling asynchronous requests
• How?
• Threads vs Processes
• Message Passing
• Shared Memory
• Threadpool
• Locking/Mutex/Semaphore
• Coordinating Threads
• Preventing Threads from modifying the same structure
• Pitfalls
• Race conditions
• Deadlock
• Advice
• Don’t do concurrency yourself
• Gnu parallel
• Async libraries
• Basic Linear Algebra System
• Have a way to actually measure results

Episode 79: Technical Arguments

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Technical Arguments (1:00:26)

• Making progress vs “Doing it Right”
• Adding/Reclaiming Technical Debt
• Delivering on time
• When/how to optimize
• Language Arguments
• Which language to use
• Tabs vs Spaces
• Style
• IDE/Text Editor
• How to make technical arguments
• Reflect on why you want X
• What alternatives/substitutes exist?  What compromises?
• Do not force an argument to complete in a single session
• In between sessions, reflect on what has changed
• Pick your battles