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Asynchronous Computing At Meta: Overview And Learnings

- Sayak Kundu Artem Denisov tl;dr: "We have built a platform for serverless asynchronous computing that is provided as a service for other engineering teams. They register asynchronous functions on the platform and then submit workloads for execution via our SDK. The platform executes these workloads in the background on a large fleet of workers and provides additional capabilities such as load balancing, rate limiting, quota management, downstream protection and many others."

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How Async Should Have Been

- Nikita Sobolev tl;dr: Here the author provides his thoughts about the feature along with an outline of a new solution.

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I'm Not Feeling The Async Pressure

- Armin Ronacher Gaëtan Leurent tl;dr: Async has recently become popular. It's analyzed from the perspective of Flow Control and Back Pressure, concepts that prevent systems from overloading that are commonly overlooked.

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