asynchronous

Time and Relative Distance in Source (Code)

Reasoning about a program’s behavior is extremely tricky in the best of circumstances. When you throw in asynchronicity, it is the absolute worst. It’s like your code is trapped in a convoluted time travel movie. You want to perform some operation, but that requires stepping into a time portal and coming out at some indeterminate […]

Speeding Up Your JavaScript Test Suite

Having fast tests is important. Slow running tests slow down development, especially if you’re practicing TDD. If tests are too slow to run, some developers may avoid running them altogether. Slow tests will also slow down CI builds, increasing the length of your feedback loop. While it takes more development time, doing maintenance on your […]

Turning Asynchronous Networking Inside-Out

Developing asynchronous networking applications is an interesting problem with unique challenges and no shortage of solutions for, particularly in Python. But the way you’ve traditionally had to write your code to make it work well could leave you with a codebase that, while solid, could be challenging to read or follow. I’ll take you through […]

Easy Asynchronous Operations in iOS with ReactiveCocoa

Dealing with asynchronous operations is a common problem in mobile development. To keep our app’s user interface as fast and responsive as possible, we need to offload network requests, resource loading (e.g., images), bluetooth operations, and file I/O onto a background thread. Calling one asynchronous routine and responding to its result is a relatively simple […]