https://www.utsl.org/ Recent content on utsl's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.utsl.org/slides/actix/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.utsl.org/slides/actix/ class: center, middle Actix and Actors in Rust Nathan Hawkins Actix Overview Actix is a Rust library for concurrent programming that is loosely based on the actor model Provides a framework for passing typed messages between actors Actors may run in multiple threads Allows synchronous and asynchronous actors to coexist and communicate by passing messages Actor Model The actor model is a conceptual model for distributed and concurrent programming An actor is a thing that receives messages and does some computation based on them Messages are delivered to a mailbox, which generally acts as a queue for the actor Actor Behavior In response to a message that it receives, an actor may: Create more actors Send more messages Decide how to respond Do internal things with the actor’s own state What’s an Actor in Actix? https://www.utsl.org/posts/debian-freebsd/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:16:49 -0500 https://www.utsl.org/posts/debian-freebsd/ A Brief History of the Debian/FreeBSD Project Background and Motivation In the mid-90’s, I did part-time work at a small ISP called quic.net. We used Linux for nearly everything, and I was the main system administrator making kernel and OS decisions. We had switched from RedHat to Debian sometime around the time RedHat Linux 5.0 came out. The quality difference was impressive, and after a few years of using it, we were very satisfied with Debian.