TL;DR: I design short wrapper scripts to send batch jobs to a cluster. The first architecture (ventilator-worker-sink) is suboptimal, therefore I consider another pattern to dispatch the jobs efficiently. Recently I had to make a big chunk of computations for a publication related to my PhD.
Rearchitecting GitHub PagesGitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions.
UCS vs UTF-8 as Internal String EncodingUnicode started out early as a 16bit encoding roughly equivalent to the now deprecated UCS2 encoding. When it became clear that Unicode needed more than ~16bit of characters the hope for having a fixed length encoding was not particularly high any more.
It’s a trap! Systems traps in software development — MediumHave you ever attempted to improve a situation only to find that you've made things worse? Have you ever followed conventional ‘best practice’ only to find that it’s just not working as you’d hoped? Does it ever feel like the more you try, the worse things get?
Don’t Dereference SymlinksIf your application dereferences symlinks by default, you are a jerk. Your software is bad, and you should feel bad. Why do you hate your users? On OS-X in the Finder, there is a neat pane on the left where you can bookmark your favorite places to get to them quickly and easily.
Unicode is Kind of InsaneUnicode aims to represent every possible character in every possible language in a single character encoding. Its an ambitious undertaking, the current version has mapped 113 thousand distinct characters to code points in Unicode - each one of which is given a unique name and description.
Thoughts on Keybase.ioOver the last couple of weeks, a startup called keybase.io has been making the rounds, promising a much simpler take on PGP. A more humane interface on GnuPG, visual design by a renowned artist, even a web interface for your crypto. Fantastic, right? Yeah, I can't get on board.
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace liz.
Why You Should Never Use MongoDBDisclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs.
Microservices with C# and RabbitMQMicroservices are groupings of lightweight services, interconnected, although independent of each other, without direct coupling or dependency.
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.