Rob Janssen

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The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS — Tech News and Analysis

In 1976, famed computer architect Seymour Cray released one of the most successful supercomputers ever made: the Cray-1, a stylish 5.5-ton C-shaped tower that was quickly embraced by laboratories all over the world.

A beginner’s guide to Cache synchronization strategies

A system of record is the authoritative data source when information is scattered among various data providers. When we introduce a caching solution, we automatically duplicate our data.

Packaging Your Apps with Phar

Deployment of web applications can be difficult and cumbersome if you don’t have the right tools. If you’ve ever deployed a Java application before, I’m sure you’ve heard of JAR files (which stands for “Java ARchive”).

ToroDB

Open source, document-oriented, JSON database that runs on top of PostgreSQL JSON documents are stored relationally, not as a blob/jsonb: significant storage and I/O savings Wire-protocol compatibility with MongoDB WHY TORODB ToroDB leverages decades of experience and performance of RDBMSs.

Why Software Becomes a Big Ball of Mud

“Big ball of mud” is one of the more common pejoratives thrown at “legacy” code.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Set breakpoints, step into and out of your code, and inspect variables across the call stack, all from within the Code editing environment.

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows.

Organisaties werken aan 'vertrouwd internet' om ddos-aanvallen af te wenden

Verschillende Nederlandse ondernemingen, waaronder providers en banken, werken aan een 'vertrouwd internet' om zo kritieke infrastructuur te beschermen tegen ddos-aanvallen. Daardoor zou een massale cyberaanval het land niet in een klap lam kunnen leggen.

Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in 2048. Here’s how the AI pulled it off.

By now, we’ve all heard of the addictive tile-mashing game called 2048. Last week, I picked up 2048 for the first time and — true to my nature — I started designing an AI to beat the game for me the following day.

FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture

We were given the task to stream the FIFA 14 World Cup and I think this was an experience worth sharing. This is a quick overview about: the architecture, the components, the pain, the learning, the open source and etc.

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