How many threads?

How many threads?

You have an application. You add threads to improve throughput. But how many threads do you add? Do you go for a fixed number, or you compute this dynamically?

We try to articulate an answer in this post.

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OOP Is not Essential

OOP Is not Essential

A new article of mine appeared in Overload: OOP Is not Essential.

Starting from a tweet from Grady Booch, the article claims that OOP is not essential in building (complex) software systems. It covers multiple meanings of the word “essential”, and it also covers the features of OOP and shows that there is nothing essential in there. The true weapon of fighting complexity is decomposition, but OOP isn’t the only alternative there.

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