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Parallel Processing with Promises.

The article discusses the management and coding of distributed computer systems and asynchronous programming. The author reflects on the use of an abstraction known as promises to simplify asynchronous function call management and parallel processing. Other topics include the writing of concurrent p...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 42 - 48
Autor principal: RATHBUN, SPENCER
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery May2015
Materias:
Distributed computing management
Cooperative processing
Coding theory
Computer programming
Synchronization
Client/server computing
Parallel processing
Electronic data processing management
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Sumario:The article discusses the management and coding of distributed computer systems and asynchronous programming. The author reflects on the use of an abstraction known as promises to simplify asynchronous function call management and parallel processing. Other topics include the writing of concurrent processing systems, the algorithmic design of promises, the central authority of the Node.js process, health checks for processing workers, and synchronization among central authorities in multiple servers or processes.