Came here to exactly say this, living your life in a non-emergency situation in some parts of the world like Delhi is close to current living conditions in the Bay Area (+surrounding states) under unprecedented wild fire in the modern history!
emergency is becomingly unfortunately normalized with regards to wild fires in the western part of the country. also, “living your life” infers a generalized comparison and if that’s the case you must consider the destructive impact (homes/businesses) of the fire that lives on well beyond the actual event. - bad air quality from pollution isn’t destructive in that manner
Is the advantage of getting an allocation purely that the said investor buys the said stock at the price that is agreed upon in the price range of the filings with NASDAQ/NYSE ?
Also are these investors usually the HNW individuals who typically invest Millions thru the investment banking firms that are underwriting the said IPO, so win/win for the HNW and the banking firm in the way that it can guarantee the IPO'ing company that it can confidently underwrite and is also using the HNWs money to cover most of the risk ?
Please correct me if I am wrong in understanding this complex process.
Yes, the advantage is getting the actual IPO price, rather than buying on the open market. For example, BYND IPO'd at $25, but shares hit the open market in the mid $40s (and climbed very quickly into the $60s). That kind of performance is obviously not guaranteed, but is not exactly atypical for hot offerings.
I hope this California bill[0] soon gets enacted into law, that would give extra protection to the residents against selling a customers data without written consent. Written consent is big here!!
Scala is amazing if you want to use it for light weight server programming and want to use functional constructs along the way.
If somehow you are convinced to use Akka because of high throughput streaming architecture, please just take a step back and make sure you understand what you are getting into!
I don't particularly care about high throughput streaming architecture. The actor model as a concept, its concurrency, and how that models the business domain is more along the lines of what I'm interested in. Same as what intrigues me about Elixir as well, but I need hundreds of thousands of actors that can react to events that require numerical computing.
If you're interested in Actors, the book has a chapter `Chapter 16: Message-based Parallelism with Actors` that does an introduction to them, and they are used "in anger" in `Chapter 18: Building a Real-time File Synchronizer`. I've worked hard to make this the best introduction to real-world use cases of Actors I've seen anywhere on the internet.
For simplicity, it uses a tiny Actor library instead of a big framework like Akka, but all the concepts and techniques should be transferrable to any Actor-based application
Actors, in of themselves, are pretty lightweight. The bigger challenge is figuring out how many threads you want to configure to back them.
Also, consider that while message passing as an architecture can lend itself to well-structured applications, it's not a panacea against issues like deadlock & livelock.
It also sounds like you may need some kind of distributed fabric for that kind of system and again, while Akka provides an elegant toolset, you still have to contend with network resiliency issues.
TBH, I have found biggest challenge in constructing these architectures is coordinating their completion or shutdown. You can up with thread leaks that will only show up through extensive testing or experience.
If there`s state associated with Akka actors, to shut them down in a proper manner and not lose state you have to use Akka persistence which just means doubling down on Akka ecosystem.
I would rather use Monix Task than Akka for this if i could get away with it. ZIO looks really cool too. Worth a look since these things are more typeful
Futures and Actors are complementary tools, and neither is really a substitute for the other. `Chapter 16: Message-based Parallelism with Actors` has a good discussion of when you would use each one, and some of the exercises involve using them together
Is someone else worried that the vision is not 180 view in the front ?
At 22 seconds at the stop sign, after the first car drives past what if theres a car that breaks the stop sign and ends up ramming into the tesla (as a human sometimes you anticipate this by seeing that the car is not decelerating as it is approaching the stop sign)
I have seen so many deals on Ring security system and not surprised my entire community is on Ring (since its closer to a Costco) and we are the only household without any kind of security system atm.
Now let that sink in :(