Vasil Kosturski

Series

• Exploring the async/await state machine

  How the C# compiler turns an async method into a state machine, from the awaitable pattern to synchronization contexts, ConfigureAwait and stack traces.

  7 parts
  1. Part 1: Exploring the async/await State Machine – The Awaitable Pattern
  2. Part 2: Exploring the async/await State Machine – Main Workflow and State Transitions
  3. Part 3: Exploring the async/await State Machine – Conceptual Implementation
  4. Part 4: Exploring the async/await State Machine – Concrete Implementation
  5. Part 5: Exploring the async/await State Machine – Synchronization Context
  6. Part 6: Exploring the async/await State Machine – Nested Async Calls and ConfigureAwait(false)
  7. Part 7: Exploring the async/await State Machine – Stack Traces and Refactoring Pitfalls
• Clash of Styles

  Programming paradigms side by side: one problem solved with object-oriented C# and with functional F#, and what each style makes easy or hard to extend.

  6 parts
  1. Part 1: Clash of Styles, Part #1 – Operations Matrix via OOP
  2. Part 2: Clash of Styles, Part #2 – Operations Matrix via FP
  3. Part 3: Clash of Styles, Part #3 – Extensibility via OOP and FP
  4. Part 4: Clash of Styles, Part #4 – Adding Support for Rational Numbers with FP
  5. Part 5: Clash of Styles, Part #5 – Double Dispatch, or When to Abandon OOP
  6. Part 6: Clash of Styles, Part #6 – FP in OOP via the Visitor Pattern
• Causal consistency guarantees

  When eventual consistency is not enough: the causal guarantees, such as read your writes and monotonic reads, and how MongoDB provides them.

  3 parts
  1. Part 1: Causal Consistency Guarantees – Case Studies
  2. Part 2: Causal Consistency Guarantees in MongoDB – “majority” Read and Write Concerns
  3. Part 3: Causal Consistency Guarantees in MongoDB – Lamport Clock, Cluster Time, Operation Time, and Causally Consistent Sessions
• Node.js microservices on AWS EKS

  Node.js microservices deployed to Kubernetes on AWS EKS with a Travis CI pipeline, built for Udacity's Cloud Developer Nanodegree.

  3 parts
  1. Part 1: Running NodeJS Microservices in Kubernetes using AWS EKS & Travis CI – Part 1
  2. Part 2: Running NodeJS Microservices in Kubernetes using AWS EKS & Travis CI – Part 2
  3. Part 3: Running NodeJS Microservices in Kubernetes using AWS EKS & Travis CI – Part 3
• GraphQL social media demo

  A small social network built end to end with GraphQL: a Node and Apollo server and a React client.

  2 parts
  1. Part 1: GraphQL, Node, Apollo and React (Social Media Demo Project) –  Part 1
  2. Part 2: GraphQL, Node, Apollo and React (Social Media Demo Project) –  Part 2
• .NET scheduled tasks on AWS Fargate

  Running a containerized .NET console app on a schedule as an AWS Fargate task.

  2 parts
  1. Part 1: Running Containerized .NET Scheduled Tasks with AWS Fargate – Part 1
  2. Part 2: Running Containerized .NET Scheduled Tasks with AWS Fargate – Part 2

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