Isolation, Agents, and Message-passing in .NET

Note: a variant of this text also appears in the Axum Programmer’s Guide, which will be distributed with the upcoming CTP. Axum has great support for writing distributed applications. In fact, one of the reasons for taking such a hard line on isolation...

One of the problems in asynchronous message passing is preventing a situation where a sender produces messages faster than a receiver can handle them. Consider this piece of Axum code: foreach(var price in GetNextStockPrice()) { report::Price <...

When we talk about Axum as a programming language, we make the point that it is not an object-oriented language, but that it is still object-aware. What do we mean by this, and is it really true that you cannot define objects with Axum? What we mean is...

Greetings from the Axum Team! If you thought that this is one of those blogs that fizzles out after the initial sparkle of activity, rest assured we’re still alive and well. In fact, we’re forging ahead full steam towards our first preview release...