[talk from Webcamp Ljubljana 2009] A non-apologetic treatise on how to think concurrency. Contains exotic languages, swearing, and only a passing relevance to the web.

1. Brave New Concurrent World Webcamp Ljubljana [email_address]

3. Some big ideas in concurrency

4. Decouple temporal and spital order

8. The future is a function of the past, it doesn’t change it

9. Identity is an illusion There is no enduring changing entity

11. Forget everything you know about performance

12. Do redundant operations to reduce communication

13. Take extra space to permit temporal decoupling

15. Map/reduce Concurrency in practice

17. Fine granularity N(map tasks) >> N(machines)

18. Fault tolerance via re-execution