CiprianDorinCraciun/ReadingQueue/2011

2011

December

2011-12-31

• The Joel on Software Discussion Group;

• I hate almost all software;

• The Law of Leaky Abstractions;

• LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency;

• The LMAX Architecture;

• Single Writer Principle;

• bup: Git for backups;

• Quotes from the Nato Software Engineering Conference in 1968;

2011-12-29

• Why Mechanical Sympathy?;

• YOW! 2011: Steve Vinoski - Riak Core, Erlang and Frisbee Freestyle;

2011-12-20

• Everything Is PaaSible;

2011-12-13

• Disruptor: High performance alternative to bounded queues for exchanging data between concurrent threads;

• A Retrospective on SEDA;

• Is it Raining Comets and Threads… Again?;

• Writing Java Multithreaded Servers -- whats old is new;

2011-12-09

• BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet?;

2011-12-07

• journald and rsyslog;

• What I don't like about journald / Linux Journal;

• journald log hash chaining is broken;

2011-12-06

• A successful Git branching model;

2011-12-02

• The Case Against Queues;

• Monitoring Theory;

• Straight Talk on Event Loops;

• Amazon -- The Purpose of Pain;

2011-12-01

• Bell Labs and CSP Threads;

• Gofmt;

• Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco;

• Visualizing TCP;

• Successful Strategies for Commenting Code;

November

2011-11-30

• Gobs of data;

• The Laws of Reflection;

2011-11-24

• Stevey's Google Platforms Rant;

• Waving Goodbye;

• Leaving Google - part 2;

• Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned;

• Background to AMQP;

• 10 Principles for AMQP;

• The Other Side of Red Hat: Pieter Hintjens on AMQP and Patents;

• AMQP Lulz;

2011-11-23

• Is Google losing it?;

• Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship;

2011-11-18

• gyp -- RE: [webkit-dev] CMake as a build system?;

2011-11-17

• Using Gossip Protocols for Failure Detection, Monitoring, Messaging and Other Good Things;

• List of Known Scalable Architecture Templates;

2011-11-14

• Unit testing in Coders at Work;

• On Duct Tape;

• The Duct Tape Programmer;

• RE: The Duct Tape Programmer;

• Sudoku in Coders At work;

• TDD Is Not An Algorithm Generator!;

2011-11-12

• ØMQ: Mission Accomplished;

2011-11-09

• Don't use MongoDB;

2011-11-06

• Mike Williams on the History of Erlang, Modeling and Large Scale Design;

• Multi-Platform Messaging with RabbitMQ;

2011-11-05

• Premature optimization is the root of all evil;

2011-11-03

• libabc -- README;

2011-11-02

• ECMA-262-3 in detail -- Chapter 7.1 -- OOP: The general theory;

2011-11-01

• The #! magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours;

October

2011-10-31

• Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details;

• Riak and Cassandra and HBase, oh my!;

• Measuring messaging performance;

• Cheap and Nasty, two essential patterns;

• MOPED - a Message-Oriented Pattern for Elastic Design;

• A Tale of Two Bridges;

2011-10-26

• Programming Language Checklist;

2011-10-25

• John McCarthy -- Father of AI and Lisp -- Dies at 84;

2011-10-24

• Dart: An Erlanger’s Reflections;

2011-10-21

• On commit messages;

• Is Node.js a cancer? No!! It's quite nice, really;

2011-10-18

• Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else);

• Occupy Wall Street Marks One Month;

2011-10-17

• xkcd: Standards;

2011-10-12

• LPC: Booting and systemd;

• Systems Security: A Primer;

September

2011-09-29

• ØMQ: The Theoretical Foundation;

2011-09-27

• Node.js vs Erlang is the wrong battle;

• Routing Topologies for Performance and Scalability with RabbitMQ;

2011-09-26

• Are You Talking to Me?;

2011-09-20

• Justin Sheehy and Damien Katz on Riak and CouchDB;

2011-09-18

• Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large;

• Solving The Hacker News Problem;

2011-09-16

• Calling Go from Python via JSON-RPC;

• More on Remote Procedure Calls;

• Node.js: Asynchronous I/O for Fun and Profit;

• Get on D-BUS;

2011-09-15

• Threaded JavaScript: it works!;

• RingoJS vs. Node.js: Runtime Values;

2011-09-14

• WebSockets: The Web Communication Revolution;

2011-09-08

• The Problem with Cloud-Computing Standardization;

2011-09-07

• RINA: redefining the network fundamentals;

• Is PaaS Passe yet?;

August

2011-08-29

• Speed Limit of PaaS – 64K TCP Ports;

2011-08-16

• So sue me: are lawyers really the key to computer security?;

• Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hours Sunday;

• Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship in new "Telex" scheme;

2011-08-15

• Opinion: Is It Time to Replace SMTP?;

2011-08-13

• Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?;

• The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck;

• The Wrong Cloud?;

2011-08-10

• A True Conversational Web;

July

2011-07-27

• The Trouble with Erlang (or Erlang is a ghetto);

• The cutting edge of VM design;

2011-07-26

• An interview with Lennart Poettering;

2011-07-22

• Cleaning up your storage space quickly and efficiently;

2011-07-14

• unREST;

June

2011-06-28

• Of Penguins, Rabbits and Buses;

• Do we still need the FSF, GNU and GPL?;

2011-06-01

• Time for Amazon to pay its dues to open source?;

• How to choose a license for your own work;

May

2011-05-25

• Depixelizing Pixel Art: Upscaling Retro 8-bit Games;

2011-05-13

• IBM doesn't care about node.js people;

2011-05-08

• Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns;

• Life of an App Engine Request;

2011-05-07

• The Grant Cycle;

• The Ephemeral Ports Problem (and solution);

April

2011-04-25

• Video Slideshow, Introducing Webmachine;

2011-04-24

• Java PaaS shootout;

2011-04-23

• Is Cloud Computing As We Know it Broken?;

• Why IO Matters in the Cloud;

2011-04-22

• Amazon EC2 outage calls 'availability zones' into question;

2011-04-10

• Improving SSL certificate security;

March

2011-03-30

• Introducing /run;

• Separate /usr is broken;

• Meet the Goliath of Ruby Application Servers;

2011-03-26

• The Recent RA Compromise;

• Report of incident on 15-MAR-2011;

2011-03-22

• When the Internet Nearly Fractured, and How It Could Happen Again;

2011-03-20

• PyCon 2011: Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ;

2011-03-18

• B.Y.O.C. (1,342 Times and Counting);

2011-03-17

• Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder;

February

2011-02-21

• Structured Streams: a New Transport Abstraction;

2011-02-17

• Beyond init: systemd;

2011-02-14

• C500k in Action at Urban Airship;

2011-02-13

• Developing RESTful Web Services with Webmachine;

2011-02-04

• How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters;

• Webmail for Millions, Powered by Erlang;

2011-02-03

• Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results -- and denies it;

• Setting the record straight;

• False Boundaries and Arbitrary Code Execution;

• The Road we didn't go down;

• RPC Under Fire;

2011-02-01

• How to Commit to a Goal;

January

2011-01-29

• NoSQL at Twitter;

2011-01-18

• A Guide to Branching in Mercurial;

2011-01-13

• Memo: ‘Gawker tech team didn’t adequately secure our platform’;

2011-01-09

• A continuous build system for Erlang;

• Build Process Integration;

2011-01-08

• Deep inside Node.js with Ryan Dahl;

• High Performance Websites in the Cloud;

2011-01-04

• What is Traitorware?;

2011-01-03

• Kresten Krab Thorup Discusses Programming Languages, Concurrency and Integration;

• Juergen Hoeller on the Past and Future of Spring;

• Josh Bloch on Java and Programming;

2011-01-02

• Products For People Who Make Products For People;

• The Long Beard's Revenge;

• If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind;

2011-01-01

• Why I Don't Use Tor;