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Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

How to Get Yourself Out of a Problem Like This

The problem with config language is that it's hard to reason about. One way of dealing with this could be by trying to test the system much better, he says. "Even if the underlying config language is kind of a disaster, you can do a nice job of the testing framework on the outside" The team decided not to use an internal toolkit because they didn't think it was enough.

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