- Distributed Reactive Programming (A Paper a Day) — this week’s focus on reactive programming has been eye-opening for me. I find the implementation details less interesting than the simple notion that we can define different consistency models for reactive programs and reason about them.
- Attacking HTTP/2 Implementations — Our talk focused on threats, attack vectors, and vulnerabilities found during the course of our research. Two Firefox, two Apache Traffic Server (ATS), and four Node-http2 vulnerabilities will be discussed alongside the release of the first public HTTP/2 fuzzer. We showed how these bugs were found, their root cause, why they occur, and how to trigger them.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems — a great intro/explainer to the different concepts in distributed systems.
- The Autonomous Winter is Coming — The future of any given manufacturer will be determined by how successfully they manage their brands in a market split between Mobility customers and Driving customers.
"reactive programming" entries
Four short links: 10 December 2015
Reactive Programming Theory, Attacking HTTP/2, Distributed Systems Explainer, and Auto Futures
How reactive applications adapt
The principles of reactive applications facilitate adaptation.
One of the fascinating things found in nature is the ability of a species to adapt to its changing environment. The canonical example of this is Britain’s Peppered Moth. When newly industrialized Great Britain became polluted in the nineteenth century, slow-growing, light-colored lichens that covered trees died and resulted in a blackening of the trees bark. The impact of this was quite profound: lightly-colored peppered moths, which historically had been well camouflaged and the majority, now found themselves the obvious target of many a hungry bird. Their rare, dark-colored sibling, who had been conspicuous before, now blended into their recently polluted ecosystem. As the birds, changed from eating dark-colored to light-colored moths, the previously common light-colored moth became the minority, and the dynamics of Britain’s moth population changed.
So what do moths have to do with programming? Read more…