[VIRTUAL] 8LU - Race Conditions: The unordered world of distributed services

Join us Friday, October 13th for an 8th Light University online presentation by 8th Light Senior Crafter Curtis Maves:

Race Conditions: The unordered world of distributed services

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SCHEDULE:

12:30 PM CDT
12:35 PM CDT
After - Questions/Networking

ABOUT THE TALK:

Modern web backends are becoming increasingly distributed, leveraging different data stores, different micro-services, and replication. The distributed nature of our services comes with a nasty side-effect: Race conditions.

Unique failure modes and opaque nature of remote services make race conditions harder to detect, diagnose, and mitigate. Differing concurrency models in APIs and data stores bring unique considerations for all distributed applications and the elongated timeline of remote requests often makes rare conditions relatively common. Finally, there is often no consistent tooling to create a coherent picture of our application across all its distributed elements.

In this presentation, I will seek to evolve our understanding of race conditions to better match the evolution of web services. Looking at common scenarios, I will explore the impact of the race conditions, demonstrate strategies to identify race conditions and anti-patterns that can be avoided to mitigate the possibility of race conditions. Through these examples I hope to bring order and coherence to the otherwise unordered and messy world of distributed applications.

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This presentation will be recorded and the recording will be posted shortly after the presentation. You can find recordings of previous 8th Light University talks on our Youtube page.

Want to learn more about 8th Light? Hang out after the presentation to chat with one of our crafters and find out how 8th Light is changing the software community. Or check out our Website!

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