50 years ago this year, Carl Hewitt invented the actor model, a computational model embracing non-determinism, which assumes all communication is asynchronous. Non-determinism enables concurrency, ...

Distributed, high-scale applications often come with a hidden tax: the complexity of managing state, concurrency, and scalability across many moving parts. Traditional n-tier architectures can ...

The hardware we rely on is changing rapidly as ever-faster chips are replaced by ever-increasing numbers of cores. As a result, concurrency and parallelism, niche features today, will soon be a basic ...