Actors and Immutability

In the ongoing series on Querki's architecture and design, today's entry is on Actors and Immutability. It discusses the Actor Model for large-scale engineering (a model I am extremely fond of), and how we will be using that to achieve fast response times in Querki while still working consistently and safely.

Trial by fire (or flood, as the case may be)

As the wind makes way for the deluge, I am suddenly reminded that I got new gutters installed less than a week ago. Which, on the one hand, is probably a Very Good Thing -- the old gutters were somewhat leaf-clogged and more than a bit broken, while the new ones are fancy clog-preventing ones, intact and better-designed to begin with.

But I would be a bit more sanguine if they had been through a modest rainstorm before this...