In this talk Tomas will show us how to implement message passing concurrency in F# using agents (the MailboxProcessor type in F#). In this style of programming, we write an application as a group of agents that run in parallel and communicate by sending immutable messages to each other. This removes the sharing of mutable state, making the application scalable and easier to understand. However, the required application structure is quite different. We’ll discuss several common patterns that you can use for structuring agent-based applications. For example, we’ll look how to implement pipeline processing and map-reduce pattern using agents.

Just a thought . . . If you enjoy the talks, you might also be interested in:

• Functional Programming eXchange, March 18, 2011
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