In This February Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY
• Task-Based Programming in Windows
  By John Revill
Setting up a reliable parallel execution context so that programs can be converted into a series of independent executable tasks.

GUEST EDITORIAL
• Why NoSQL Is Here To Stay
  By Matt Asay
While they won't displace traditional RDBMSs, the easy scalability and programmability of NoSQL databases guarantees them a permanent place in the data center.

FROM THE VAULT
• Improving Futures & Callbacks in C++ To Avoid Synching by Waiting
  By Artur Laksberg
In C++, futures are a great way of decomposing a program into concurrent parts, but a poor way of composing those parts into a responsive and scalable program. This recent article from our vault shows how Microsoft's Parallel Pattern Library (PPL) provides a solution using tasks.

FROM THE VAULT
• Multithreaded Asynchronous I/O & I/O Completion Ports
  By Tom R. Dial
This classic article examines multithreading and I/O completion ports, which distribute work across threads or processes and schedule work efficiently to maximize responsiveness and throughput.


• LETTERS
  By you
Readers comment on copyright and offer more on methodologies.


• LINKS
  Snapshots of the most interesting items on drdobbs.com including building scalable web architecture and accessing data with REST in Windows 8 applications.

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