Tackling Concurrency

This is not something many web developers run up against, but for those with a spare hour, Channel9 has an insightful interview with some researchers from Microsoft Research Cambridge who explain their new solution for dealing with transactions and parallelism.

The recent introduction of multi-core processors this year has really pushed concurrency into the limelight of the software development community. With it attention has been drawn to functional programming, reasons for which are described here.