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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/02
Long read, worth it too: [WayBack] How to break a Monolith into Microservices
A guide to the common steps we’ve observed in breaking a monolithic application up into microservices
–jeroen
Via [WayBack] How to break a Monolith into Microservices https://martinfowler.com/… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/02
I got an interesting question a while ago: should an application terminate (anonymous) threads or not?
Started.WaitFor might not return (which you cannot get around this because all overloads of the CheckThreadError are non-virtual)A problem is that a thread might not execute unless you call WaitFor before Terminate is called. The reason is that the internal function ThreadProc does not start Execute if the thread is already terminated.
The
ThreadProcin theSystem.Classesunit is an ideal place to set breakpoints in order to see which threads might start.Other useful places to set breakpoints:
TAnonymousThread.ExecuteTExternalThread.Execute
Execute not being called by ThreadProc is a bug, but it is not documented because QC is gone (taking the below entry with it), it is not in QP and the docwiki never got updated.
Given QC has so much information, I am still baffled that Embarcadero took it down.
Sergey Kasandrov (a.k.a. serg or sergworks) wrote in [WayBack] Sleep sort and TThread corner case | The Programming Works about this bug and refers to WayBack: QualityCentral 35451 – TThread implementation doesn’t guarantee that thread’s Execute method will be called at all .
The really bad thing are the WayBack: QualityCentral Resolution Entries for Report #35451 Resolution “As Designed” implying the design is wrong.
In his post, sergworks implemented the Sleep sorting in Delphi. Related:
- WayBack: Genius sorting algorithm: Sleep sort
- [WayBack] Reddit – 4chan: Sleep sort : programming
- [WayBack] 4chan: Sleep sort : programming
- [WayBack] Sorting algorithms/Sleep sort – Rosetta Code
- [WayBack] What is the time complexity of the sleep sort? – Stack Overflow
Note that application shutdown is a much debated topic. Best is to do as little cleanup as possible: your process is going to terminate soon anyway. No need to close handles or free memory: Windows will do that for you anyway. See for instance:
- [WayBack] The old-fashioned theory on how processes exit – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] Quick overview of how processes exit on Windows XP – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] Changes to power management in Windows Vista – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] Now that Windows makes it harder for your program to block shutdown, how do you block shutdown? – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] A process shutdown puzzle – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] A process shutdown puzzle: Answers – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] A process shutdown puzzle, Episode 2 – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] Why does Internet Explorer not call DLL_PROCESS_DETACH on my DLL when I call ExitProcess? – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] When DLL_PROCESS_DETACH tells you that the process is exiting, your best bet is just to return without doing anything – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] Why can’t I delete a file immediately after terminating the process that has the file open? – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] During process termination, the gates are now electrified – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] How my lack of understanding of how processes exit on Windows XP forced a security patch to be recalled – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] The old-fashioned theory on how processes exit – The Old New Thing
- [WayBack] Some reasons not to do anything scary in your DllMain – The Old New Thing
Related to waiting:
Related to executing:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/02
[WayBack] The Myth of Advanced TDD
People frequently ask me for “advanced TDD”. I have good news and bad news.
if you think you need to to “advanced TDD”, then you don’t do TDD.
If TDD hurts, then you need to improve your design or code. It’s like going to the gym: it’s not the exercise that causes the hurt, but the lack of physical condition.
via: [WayBack] “If you want advanced testing techniques, then you’re probably looking for techniques that will make your code worse, not better.” – J.B. Rainsberger @j… – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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