CiprianDorinCraciun/ReadingQueue/2012

2012

December

2012-12-22

• GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance;

• The tragedy of GNU copyright assignments;

• Crowding out OpenBSD;

• libabc README;

• Versioned Symbols -- A New Level of Hell;

2012-12-21

• Code Abuse;

2012-12-20

• Feudal Security;

• Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from other VM on same server;

2012-12-19

• Miles Sabin on Dependent Types with Scala, Shapeless, Scala Macros;

• Debasish Ghosh on Functional Programming, NoSQL;

• Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr;

• Max Sklar on Machine Learning at Foursquare;

2012-12-18

• The Cloud Is Not for You;

• Scaling Your Clouds;

• Heroku Isn't for Idiots;

2012-12-17

• Browser Security Case Study: Appearances Can Be Deceiving;

• Off-the-road-map: Data checksums;

• Smart or simple RAID recovery??;

• EC2 is 380% more expensive than internal cluster;

• Hyper+JSON: A First Draft;

• HyperJSON;

• SQLite: the Case against Custom Application File Formats;

• Highly Available Real Time Push Notifications and You;

• PaaS Is The Word;

2012-12-14

• More Code, More Problems;

2012-12-13

• Fight against Software Complexity;

November

2012-11-30

• Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers;

• German police raid home of man who operated Tor server;

• Tor madness reloaded;

2012-11-22

• The Web Won't Be Safe or Secure until We Break It;

• When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga;

• Surveillance and Security Lessons From the Petraeus Scandal;

2012-11-20

• LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it;

• There's No Such Thing As Software Productivity;

• My First Recommendation to New Scientific Coders: Learn Visualization;

• 10 reasons not to use Ruby;

• Go is PHP for the Backend;

2012-11-17

• All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken;

• Encryption in Cloud Computing;

• The Risks of Trusting Experts;

• Stoking Cyber Fears;

• OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing;

2012-11-15

• The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized;

• Why Technical People Should Blog (But Don’t);

2012-11-10

• The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't;

• Plan 9 mounts and dependency injection;

• Ode to the Teletype;

• To understand the command line...;

2012-11-08

• Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works;

October

2012-10-28

• Esmerelda's Imagination;

• Less is exponentially more;

• Regular expressions in lexing and parsing;

• The byte order fallacy;

• Thank you Apple;

2012-10-24

• Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript;

• Popularity (about JavaScript);

• The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become the World's Most Popular Programming Language;

• A Case Against Using CoffeeScript;

2012-10-23

• XML Fever;

• Don’t Invent XML Languages;

• On XML Language Design;

• Does Erlang/OTP need a new package management solution?;

• UBF and VM opcocde design;

• JSON protocols (part 1);

• Why I often implement things from scratch;

• Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala;

• A behind-the-scenes look at LinkedIn’s mobile engineering;

• Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js;

2012-10-21

• Vegas Blues;

• Drowning Good Ideas with Bloat. The tale of pkg.m4;

2012-10-19

• TÂRGUL DE IDENTITĂȚI. Ce se întâmplă cu CNP-ul tău (I);

• JSON versus XML: Not as Simple as You Think;

2012-10-18

• Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1;

• Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 2;

• The Signs of Trouble: On Patterns, Humbleness and Lisp;

• Rethinking Design Patterns;

• Are Design Patterns How Languages Evolve?;

• Head First Design Patterns;

• Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago;

• MongoDB or How I learned to stop worrying and love SQL;

2012-10-17

• Go Go Gadget;

2012-10-16

• The impact of Google’s aging software infrastructure on App Engine;

• App Engine: Google's deepest secrets as a service;

2012-10-15

• Passwords in the wild, part I: the gap between theory and implementation;

• Passwords in the wild, part III: password standards for the Web;

• When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?;

• Recent Developments in Password Cracking;

• What I Wrote Just Before the SHA-3 Announcement;

• Password cracking, part I: how much has cracking improved?;

• Password cracking, part II: when does password cracking matter?;

• Passwords Are Not Broken, but How We Choose them Sure Is;

• Choosing Secure Passwords;

• All about Website Password Policies;

2012-10-12

• The Degradation of Java Developers;

• Weathering the Unexpected;

2012-10-11

• NSQ: realtime distributed message processing at scale;

2012-10-07

• Incremental Research vs. Paradigm-Shift Mania;

• Please do not port software to Windows!;

September

2012-09-25

• I Am Worried About The Future Of Python;

• RE: Why I'm not leaving Python for Go;

2012-09-22

• On Leaving OAuth;

• On the Deadness of OAuth 2;

• Doing It Wrong;

• The TTY demystified;

• EINTR and PC loser-ing (The "Worse Is Better" case study);

• Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB;

• Downwardly Scalable Systems;

2012-09-21

• iPad + Linode, 1 Year Later;

• Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet;

• UPDATE: New York Judge Tries to Silence Twitter in Its Ongoing Battle to Protect User Privacy;

• TextDrive, R.I.P.;

2012-09-17

• Stop Sending Dates as Strings in Your APIs;

2012-09-15

• The Importance of Security Engineering;

• Is iPhone Security Really this Good?;

• 3 Reasons to Kill the Internet Kill Switch Idea;

• SSSCA;

• Security at the 9/11 WTC Memorial;

• Do You Have a Photo ID, Young Man?;

• Coroutines vs explicitly async APIs;

2012-09-14

• Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking;

• Disks from the Perspective of a File System;

• Let's Debate Coding Style;

2012-09-10

• "Twitter killed my business." An inside look at the ecosystem crackdown;

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research;

• O/R modelling interlude: PostgreSQL vs MySQL;

2012-09-04

• Poll Results: Erlang & Maintenance;

2012-09-01

• Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs;

• Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas;

• Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom;

• NoSQL, Heroku, and You;

• NoSQL: The Dawn of Polyglot Persistence;

• Memcached, a Database?;

• Polyglot Programming: Flawed Dream?;

• i3 -- An Improved Tiling Window Manager;

August

2012-08-30

• Cloud hosting vs colocation;

• Rent or Own: Amazon EC2 vs. Colocation Comparison for Hadoop Clusters;

• Cloud Economics;

• How Cloud Computing Impacts the Cash Needs of Startups;

• Cloud Hype, An Amazon Web Services Post-Mortem;

• On Why I Don't Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud;

• SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug);

• Basecamp, now with more vroom;

• Broken Builds;

• Coding Smart: People vs. Tools;

• Are functional languages inherently slow?;

• Reified Generics for Java;

• The Truth About Value Types;

• How I Became a REST "Convert";

• Divorcing SOA and Web Services;

• Startups: Bands for Hackers;

• Rethinking Programming Language Tutorials;

2012-08-29

• Advances and Challenges in Log Analysis;

• Reflections on Trusting Trust;

• My Compiler Does Not Understand Me;

• The Software Industry IS the Problem;

• The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake;

• The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit;

• A Plea to Software Vendors from Sysadmins - 10 Do's and Don'ts;

• Lessons from the Letter;

• The Game of Distributed Systems Programming. Which Level Are You?;

• Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster;

• The Engineering Behind Twitter’s New Search Experience;

• Introducing Gizzard, a framework for creating distributed datastores;

• Collecting Counters;

• Bound by the Speed of Light;

• Latency and Livelocks;

2012-08-28

• Designing robust web API;

• Agile is a Sham;

• Good Agile, Bad Agile;

• Let the Agile Fad Flow By;

• that "duct tape" silliness;

• Duct tape context: A tale of two rewrites;

• Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef;

• Just What We Need: Another RPC Package;

• Bloat;

• SpiderDuck: Twitter's Real-time URL Fetcher;

• Finagle: A Protocol-Agnostic RPC System;

2012-08-27

• The birth of LISP -- a summary of John McCarthy's original paper;

• Google CIO and others talk DevOps and "Disaster Porn" at Surge;

• How We Made GitHub Fast;

• Mongrel2 Sqlite3 Config System Working;

• What is DevOps?;

• Deployment management design patterns for DevOps;

• Where are the design patterns for software operations?;

2012-08-24

• You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance;

• Clarifications on the CAP Theorem and Data-Related Errors;

• Some things I've learned about memory;

• Platform of the future;

• Why not Haskell?;

• Quoting;

• The end (about Chrome);

• Sabbatical;

• Unix -- A story with a moral (about editors);

2012-08-23

• Storing Passwords Securely;

• (Coda Hale on Scala);

• The Rest Of The Story;

• One way to fix your rubbish password database;

• Password Strength;

2012-08-22

• Why JSON will continue to push XML out of the picture;

2012-08-21

• A Generation Lost in the Bazaar;

• Panel: PaaS - Present and Future;

2012-08-20

• Can open source be democratic?;

• The Rise and Fall of CORBA;

• Building high-throughput data pipelines with Google App Engine;

2012-08-19

• Can More Code Mean Fewer Bugs?;

• Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark;

• STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash;

2012-08-15

• Yes, I was hacked. Hard.;

• Tech journalists: Stop hyping unproven security tools;

• POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES;

• Soft updates, hard problems;

2012-08-14

• What was wrong with ZeroMQ (and how we fixed it);

2012-08-13

• Getting 2.5 Megalines of code to behave -- On Curiosity and its software;

2012-08-10

• Why does the IT industry continue to listen to Gartner?;

• Attack of the Cosmic Rays!;

2012-08-09

• TCP Fast Open: expediting web services;

2012-08-08

• Rubber Duck Debugging;

2012-08-04

• Reinvent The Wheel!;

• A lesson in shortcuts;

2012-08-03

• Announcing an audacious proposal;

• Dear Mark Zuckerberg;

• Hot Dogs & Caviar;

• Critical mass vs network effects;

• Fred Wilson is wrong about "Free";

• What Twitter could have been;

• The Case vs Ad-Supported Platforms;

• In Defense Of Free;

• Careful, Twitter -- remember what happened to MySpace and Digg;

• The $8 Billion Elephant in the Room: How to Understand the Future of Twitter;

July

2012-07-31

• HTTP2 Expression of Interest (Facebook's response);

• HTTP2 Expression of Interest: Squid;

• Fwd: HTTP2 Expression of Interest [twitter];

2012-07-30

• HTTP/2 Expression of luke-warm interest: Varnish;

2012-07-29

• The Difference Between Good And Good Enough;

• The Power of Technical Debt;

• Why I Don't Use Autocomplete;

• To Comment Or Not To Comment -- A Tale Of Two Stories;

• DAOs and MySQL -- A Response;

2012-07-28

• Framework Fixation -- An Anti Pattern;

2012-07-27

• Are functional languages inherently slow?;

• Why CLISP is under GPL;

• Why Society Doesn’t Change: The System Justification Bias;

2012-07-26

• Functional programming is a ghetto;

• OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell;

• WRAP, and the Demise of the OAuth Community;

• Go at SoundCloud;

2012-07-25

• Is it reasonable to write new code in Perl right now?;

2012-07-19

• EU Proposes To Provide Open Access To The Results Of Research It Funds;

2012-07-18

• An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons;

2012-07-17

• So You Want to Be a Security Expert;

• Rand Paul Takes on the TSA;

2012-07-16

• Kogan introduces Internet Explorer 7 'tax';

2012-07-14

• Concurrent Maps;

2012-07-13

• Keep it Simple...;

• XML Matters: Intro to PYX;

• Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basic principles of MicroXML;

• Introducing MicroXML, Part 2: Process MicroXML with MicroLark;

• Pyxie;

2012-07-11

• Levels of aspiration;

• Cloud APIs – Is Amazon the de Facto Standard?;

• Caching with Twemcache;

• Scaling memcached at Facebook;

2012-07-10

• The role of DNS and DNSSEC in information security;

• DNSSEC-bis for complete beginners (like me);

• On SRP - some implementation notes and a critical review;

• OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking;

• The perfect error message;

2012-07-09

• LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide;

• Md5crypt Password scrambler is no longer considered safe by author;

2012-07-07

• Let's Destroy Flash Together;

2012-07-05

• More than you may want to know about BIOSes and partitioning;

2012-07-03

• Overengineering and Overadoption;

June

2012-06-30

• Why Files Exist;

• I’m Done Developing for Twitter;

2012-06-28

• Coders' Rights At Risk in the European Parliament;

• Defending Privacy at the Israeli Border: Information for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices;

• ‘Do you feel more Arab or more American?’: Two women’s story of being detained and interrogated at Ben Gurion;

2012-06-26

• Cool URIs don't change;

2012-06-23

• There is No Risk;

• CQRS;

• CQRS, Task Based UIs, Event Sourcing agh!;

• Clarified CQRS;

2012-06-21

• Biometric National IDs and Passports: A False Sense of Security;

• "Hacking" Strikes Fear in the Heart of Texas Bureau of Prisons;

2012-06-19

• Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?;

2012-06-18

• How Companies Can Beef Up Password Security;

2012-06-17

• Applications vs. Platforms;

• Good Error Recovery is Hard, So Use PostgreSQL;

• Linux OOM Killer;

• Re: Unchecked malloc()s in libjack/thread.c and libjack/intclient.c;

• Your Coding Philosophies are Irrelevant;

• Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology;

• Micro-Build Systems and the Death of a Prominent DSL;

• Recovering From a Computer Science Education;

2012-06-16

• Google Begins Behavioral Targeting Ad Program;

2012-06-15

• How to GET a Cup of Coffee;

• Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit;

• DDD -- Diagram Driven Design;

• UML Mode;

• UML: The Positive Spin;

• PowerPoint Is Evil;

• The Trouble with Airport Profiling;

2012-06-14

• Hackers Need Our Own Everything;

• In Praise of Idleness;

2012-06-11

• Colorful metaphors and properly reusing functions;

• A System is not a Product;

2012-06-06

• Enforcing the GPL – Kernel hackers join the fight;

2012-06-04

• Marten Mickos: The LAMP stack is dead, and cloud has killed it;

2012-06-01

• Exec and Tail-call Optimization;

May

2012-05-31

• A Case For Standardizing Password Security;

• How Heroku Works -- Teams and Tools;

• How Heroku Works -- Maker's Day;

• How Heroku Works -- Hiring;

2012-05-30

• 20 lines of code that will beat A/B testing every time;

2012-05-29

• Logout before you burnout;

2012-05-28

• False cognates and syntax;

2012-05-25

• Battle.net authentication misconceptions;

2012-05-23

• Engineering Infrastructures for Humans;

2012-05-17

• Vert.x: Why the JVM May Put Node.js on the Ropes;

2012-05-15

• The Twelve-Factor App;

• Logs Are Streams, Not Files;

• Polyglot Platform;

2012-05-14

• Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++;

• Python Deployment Anti-Patterns;

• Python Application Deployment with Native Packages;

• git-based fabric deploys are awesome;

• The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing Software: Software Intelligence;

2012-05-04

• TPB gets censored in the UK;

2012-05-02

• Phd Comics: Existential Deconstruction;

April

2012-04-25

• History of the browser user-agent string;

2012-04-21

• An old OS idea is new again: non-installation;

2012-04-20

• Phd Comics: Academic Homepage;

March

2012-03-30

• Managing Technical Debt;

• Technical Debt Quadrant;

• Cannot Measure Productivity;

• Your Mouse is a Database;

• Inside the ToyBox: An interview with Rob Landley;

• Goodbye Google App Engine (GAE);

• HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols;

2012-03-24

• Another Git branching model;

• Analysis of Git and Mercurial;

• NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques;

2012-03-16

• Security in Plan 9;

2012-03-13

• iPad is the new IE6;

2012-03-07

• How Patents Hinder Innovation;

2012-03-01

• Scale Failure;

February

2012-02-29

• An Open Letter to Chris Dodd;

2012-02-23

• Welcome to DuctTape!;

2012-02-09

• What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy;

• Not Piracy;

2012-02-07

• Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web;

• Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack;

• A Git Workflow for Agile Teams;

2012-02-06

• Google: MoreSQL is Real;

• How I got massively faster DB with async batching;

2012-02-05

• RObotzi.S02.Ep.Special.ACTA;

• 3lăr ACTA;

• Schlep Blindness;

2012-02-04

• Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.;

• If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong;

• LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming;

• Python Is Not Java;

2012-02-03

• Why CouchDB?;

2012-02-01

• Learning from Clouds Past: A Look Back at Magellan;

January

2012-01-30

• January 2012 -- State of the Servers;

2012-01-29

• My thoughts on S.O.P.A.;

2012-01-24

• Economics of Messaging Software;

2012-01-22

• An Easy But Serious Screensaver Security Problem In X.Org;

2012-01-21

• ECMAScript5 Strict Mode;

2012-01-19

• INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012, PRESS RELEASE;

• Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications;

2012-01-14

• A few observations about systemd;

• [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd;

• The systemd fallacy;

2012-01-10

• Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java;

• Add Honest Achmed's root certificate;

2012-01-07

• TCP incast: What is it? How can it affect Erlang applications?;