Rob Janssen (RobIII)

Microservices

Are Microservices the Future? Our main aim in writing this article is to explain the major ideas and principles of microservices.

Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?The current version is the first print edition (, ).The single-column format works well on large-format ebook readers. Medium-format ebook readers reportedly do well on single-column PDFs that have been run through pdfscissors.

ODROID : Hardkernel

ODROID-U3 Community Edition $59 is special price only for this community edition for personal use outside Korea. And the maximum order quantity is limited to one unit for one person. The ODROID Magazine will give you the full guide for it. http://magazine.odroid.

Analyzing Sorting Algorithms

Another way of looking at this project is as an analytical tool to study how sorting algorithms work. Beside generating visuals representations, SORTING provides a walk-through that guides the reader step after step along the process of ordering a lists of integer numbers.

Software Developers Are Terrified Of What Happens When They Hit 30

The saying “30 is the new 20” doesn’t always hold true — in fact, it seems to be the opposite for those in the software development industry. While some professionals are just beginning to hit their stride at age 30, the future for an average programmer can appear pretty bleak after 29.

Surviving a traffic surge: Three techniques to scale your site fast

I've been a satisfied linode customer for about seven years. I've always had the cheapest plan (about $200/year), and because it's a virtual server, it automatically upgrades for free whenever the cheapest plan gets more memory, disk space or bandwidth.

Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile : What You Get Wrong about the Internet

If you’re an average reader, I’ve got your attention for 15 seconds, so here goes: We are getting a lot wrong about the web these days. We confuse what people have clicked on for what they’ve read. We mistake sharing for reading.

What About mozjpeg?

On March 5, 2014, Mozilla announced the mozjpeg project, a fork of libjpeg-turbo that is designed to provide better compression for web images, at the expense of performance.

The cronjob that generates $4 million a year

At the core of how Buffer schedules posts is one line of a cronjob configuration that hasn’t been touched since the very start when Joel founded Buffer. We still rely on that single cronjob that runs every minute of every day.

Optimizing Optimization

Once upon a time while working on a project I wrote a helper function. There wasn’t anything remarkable about the function and I don’t remember its exact purpose now, but what is important is that it used reflections.