Rob Janssen

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What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?

My mental model of CPUs is stuck in the 1980s: basically boxes that do arithmetic, logic, bit twiddling and shifting, and loading and storing things in memory.

HTTP/2 and content delivery — Medium

Web servers supporting HTTP/2 can take advantage of a couple new features introduced as part of the specification to improve delivery of content over HTTP in order to significantly improve the end user experience of your application.

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Three Common Mistakes of the First Time Tech Lead

The first time a developer steps into the role of a Tech Lead can be difficult. The skills and experience of a seasoned developer do not automatically translate into the skills necessary for the Tech Lead role.

Visualizing Concurrency in Go · divan's blog

One of the strongest sides of Go programming language is a built-in concurrency based on Tony Hoare’s CSP paper. Go is designed with concurrency in mind and allows us to build complex concurrent pipelines. But have you ever wondered - how various concurrency patterns look like?

A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI

Yesterday morning, the Hosted UI team, responsible for VMware’s Workstation and Fusion products, woke up to find themselves out of a job. These products, despite being award-winning and profitable, are probably not long for this world.

Adventures in High Speed Networking on Azure

At Illyriad Games we are building a new scale of gaming for Age of Ascent, an Ultra-MMO with real-time twitch combat at unprecedented scale.

ASP.NET 5 is dead - Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0

Naming is hard. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton

dadgar/onecache

OneCache is a distributed key/value store that is accessible via the memcached protocol. OneCache nodes natively support clustering and best effort replication. Adding nodes into the cluster effectively increases the in-memory storage capability of the cache.

Business Logic in the Database. Yes or No? It depends!

We’ve had tremendously positive feedback on my recent article that talked about “Why SQL is neither legacy, nor low-level, nor difficult, nor the wrong place for (business) data logic, but simply awesome” both within the blog’s comment section as well as on reddit.

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.