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Reading and Bookmarks
- Healthy Codebase and Preparatory RefactoringIn a recent episode of the RubyRogues podcast, Martin Fowler and Jessica Kerr literally spoke my mind. They named two concepts that I deeply believe in and care about: Healthy Codebase and…
- Kafka and Samza: Distributed stream processing in practicePresented at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory on 12 November 2014 (http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/54973) and at the Imperial College London Large-Scale Distributed Systems Group…
- Wednesday, 12 November 2014 – The Pastry Box Project“I don’t know how she does it.”I hear this. People say this about me. Like, I’m standing RIGHT THERE and people will say it to someone else. It’s a cliché…
- Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015Visual Studio and .NET have been two bedrocks of the Microsoft developer ecosystem for over a decade. With over 1.8 billion installations of .NET and over 7 million downloads of Visual Studio 2013…
- The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The RoadsterMike Nudelman/Business Insider Tesla Motors probably shouldn't exist. The last successful American car startup was founded 111 years ago. It's called Ford. Barely a decade old, Tesla is already…
- The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The RoadsterMike Nudelman/Business Insider Tesla Motors probably shouldn't exist. The last successful American car startup was founded 111 years ago. It's called Ford. Barely a decade old, Tesla is already…
- How we've made Raptor up to 4x faster than Unicorn, up to 2x faster than Puma, TorqueboxDissecting Raptor part 1: performance optimization techniques One of the big questions have people have for us, is how we’ve made Raptor fast. After all, claiming that it’s “up…
- Damien Katz: 7 Habits of Highly Defective TestingGood testing of software requires effort and discipline. Ain't no one got time for that.
- QueuesThere are many queueing systems out there. Each one of them is different and was created for solving certain problems. This page tries to collect the libraries that are widely popular and have a successful record of running on (big) production systems. The goal is to create a quality list of queues with a collection of articles, blog posts, slides, and video
- Against ProductivityFour years ago I temporarily moved to Puerto Rico. I went to PR to seek the New American Dream, a dream that had swept through American business culture, launched a billion dollar self-help industry,…
Music I like from Pandora
- Creep by I'm Not A PilotCreep by I'm Not A Pilot from the album Need Money For Rocket Fuel
- West Coast by Coconut RecordsWest Coast by Coconut Records from the album Nighttiming
- Animal (Punks Jump Up Remix) by Miike SnowAnimal (Punks Jump Up Remix) by Miike Snow from the album Animal (Remixes)
- You've Got The Love by Florence + The MachineYou've Got The Love by Florence + The Machine from the album Lungs
- Warehouse (Live) by Dave Matthews BandWarehouse (Live) by Dave Matthews Band from the album Live At Red Rocks 8.15.95 (Live)
- Broken Open by Cold War KidsBroken Open by Cold War Kids from the album Mine Is Yours
- The Wiggles (Children's)The Wiggles (Children's)
- They Might Be GiantsThey Might Be Giants
- El Ten ElevenEl Ten Eleven
- The RaconteursThe Raconteurs



















