Rob Janssen

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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.

A Tiny Intro to Database Systems

Here is a short summary of DBMS : database management systems. If you would like to read those in a nicely formatted PDF or if you have any questions / suggestions / requests, feel free to send me a tweet @dandancrisan.

40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms

To make learning more fun and interesting, here’s a list of important computer science theories and concepts explained with analogies and minimal technical terms. It’s like an ultra-fast-track computer science degree program for everyone, just to get you to understand the general concepts.

Call me maybe: MongoDB stale reads

In May of 2013, we showed that MongoDB 2.4.3 would lose acknowledged writes at all consistency levels. Every write concern less than MAJORITY loses data by design due to rollbacks–but even WriteConcern.

No Silver Bullet

I have been observing a very unfortunate inclination nowadays, especially among functional programmers, of habitually using asynchrony in their system. This is especially concerning when asynchrony is used as a first approach to dealing with potential performance issues.

Utilizing the other 80% of your system's performance: Starting with Vectorization

Vectorization, as opposed to parallelization, is less utilized as a means of exploiting the full capabilities of a processor. This is a problem since even today this means only ¼ to ½ of the performance of the CPU is used. This is only getting worse in future, especially as accelerators are becomi

Building a Distributed Fault-Tolerant Key-Value Store Apr 12th, 2015

I’ve been splitting my time lately between the new Spheres project and the Coursera Cloud Computing specialization, in order to sharpen my distributed systems skills. My personal experience has been great, and I have learned tons of new stuff.

Work doesn't happen the way you think it does

For the sake of the argument let's imagine that you get in trouble. Real trouble that forces you to pay a whole lot of money to a darn good lawyer to get you out of it.

Log Management Tools Face-Off: Splunk vs. Logstash vs. Sumo Logic

What are the main trade-offs between the leading log management tools and how to choose the one that’s right for you? I don’t know about you, but to me, it can feel like log files are the rabbits of production environments.

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