Seeing the popularity of elmish architecture and attempts at implementations of backends based on it (or any unsupervised cooperative actor loops) I thought I’d share my thoughts. Desirable characteristics Most naive implementations of synchronous (HTTP/RPC) APIs are perfectly content to return some equivalent of 500 code at a drop of a hat. My DB timed […]

Since day 1 elmish, developed at Prolucid for our front-end applications supported console logging of states and updates taking place in the application. You have to see it to appreciate how powerful of a feature that is and for a while it was enough. That is until ever-prolific @forki decided he wants a full blown Elm-like […]

JavaScript cheats. If you want to pass some properties, there’s no need for a type to describe them – just return anything you want inside of curly braces and you are done. Of course there’s a cost, but that not what this post is about. How does one achieve this level of freedom in order to […]

If you are small vendor and your primary focus hasn’t been in designing UIs, entering the field today presents you with too many choices. However, if you’d like to use existing expertise and develop new ones in way that would accommodate broad range of platforms: Web, Mobile, Windows and, ideally, OSX and linux – the choices […]

As part of FsShelter development I had to implement the multilang serilizers for Storm, originally building against then current Storm 0.10.0. I’ve started with Thrift, thinking that since its already a part of Storm runtime it would make the adoption easier compared to protobuf and given similar  characteristics the downgrade in performance would not be […]