This is the sixth part of the State Machine Executor series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in State Machine Executor Part 1 — Introduction Let’s revisit our execution function: It’s quite quite already as we extended it with a support for timeouts, exception handling, state management, and … Continue reading State Machine Executor Part 6 — Forking

It’s not a hidden knowledge that many assignments are not atomic and we can face the word tearing. They are mostly related to CPU word length, synchronization, concurrency, etc. However, things can be much worse when we’re dealing with interpreted languages or languages with no strict schema. In these languages, a “regular” assignment can also … Continue reading Non-atomic assignments in Python