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Working through @fly.io 's distributed systems challenge (gossip glomers); wrote custom node/message types in Rust (<3 to serde), but one thing has me baffled:

What are these "stale" messages? Tried googling it, also fly.io's forums but did not find anything.

Can anyone help?

What's the best way of "waiting for ack"s after sending, say, UDP packets -- provided the network is unreliable, your client may never respond and you should keep sending messages until they do. While doing that, you must also process other messages you receive (so no blocking the event loop)

Here a graphic I made up for @architecturenotes.co

As a philosopher I’m not afraid to speak the truth: Pumpkin pie functions as a mere vehicle for whipped cream. In this way, it is no better than a spoon.

every Rust project:

> cargo add tokio -F full
> cargo add serde -F derive
> cargo add serde_json
> cargo add anyhow
> cargo add thiserror
> cargo add clap -F derive

Thinking about doing the Gossip Glomers challenge. Are there any other such interesting resources to learn Distributed systems by "doing"?

For future references.

I realized that one of the reasons I tend to "leave" blog posts half-written is I want to cram too much content, or want to make it a "tutorial". Trying something new since - I want my posts to be a "note" for myself.

sandeshbhusal.github.io/posts/pl/lex...

The first one is live!

I want to embed the entire LLVM compiler inside my own compiler framework in Rust. Is it too much to ask? How does rustc do it (or doesn't?) ?

Writing a JIT backend for my custom programming language. Super excited right now! :D

TIR - writing a parser by hand does not make a whole lot of sense until your grammar is stabilized enough. I am writing a simple SIMD-accelerated computing library, and the grammar keeps changing which causes a pain in re-writing the parser by hand over and over again.