Switching from Mongo to HyperDex is trivial. Suppose you have some application code that uses MongoDB: Just as in MongoDB, there's no need to explicitly declare schemas or hyperspaces.
On the duality of operating system structuresThe pendulum currently says “threads and locks are bad, events are good.” Vigourous defences are mounted in favour of one system over the other, and manifestos are written.
A Young Person’s Guide to C# BondBond is an extensible framework for working with schematized data. It is suitable for scenarios ranging from service communications to Big Data storage and processing. Bond defines a rich type system and schema versioning rules which allow forward and backward compatibility.
The God LoginI graduated with a Computer Science minor from the University of Virginia in 1992. The reason it's a minor and not a major is because to major in CS at UVa you had to go through the Engineering School, and I was absolutely not cut out for that kind of hardcore math and physics, to put it mildly.
Concurrency Matters. A lot.A short while back, Linus Torvalds wrote a bit about parallelism, and it showed up on Reddit a week or two ago. As is usually the case when it comes to Linus, he said some things that were a bit hyperbolic and got a strong reaction from the rest of the internet. In other news, water is wet.
Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?Alan Kay, education, process science, and economics of mediocrity.Original file: https://vimeo.com/82301919
One Hacker Way - Erik MeijerOne Hacker Way, a Rational Alternative to Agile Presented at Reaktor Dev Day 2014 http://reaktor.fi/blog/erik-meijer-software-eating-world/ http://reaktordevday.fi
Engineer Anti-PatternsThe other week I had a particularly disheartening discussion with a potential new hire.
The idea of giving up is worse than of it killing me: How $150,000 post-it came to be?The whole thing started with an innocent promise of two naive teenagers. It was in August 2004, our last summer at primary school, when Premek and I started with our first project – a movie website Coming Soon Planet.
Control the terminal, the right wayNowadays, there are plenty of terminal emulators in the wild. Each one has a specific way to handle controls.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.