Read it or Throw it #181

1. Redis For Everything - My talk at Rails Israel 2015

2. Why Pinterest just open-sourced new tools for the Elixir programming language

3. Elixir is not Ruby

4. Phoenix is not Rails

5. Behind Your Firewall: CircleCI Enterprise Available Today

6. How I Start

7. Nokia, ARM, Enea craft new TCP/IP stack for the cloud

8. IBM's open source JVM project could also speed Ruby, Python

9. Sidekiq 4.0!

10. The Future Of Coding Is Here, And It Threatens To Wipe Out Everything In Its Path

Read it or Throw it #180

1. Recommended Talk - The Art of Destroying Software (by Greg Young)

2. The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix

3. Andrzej on Software: Applying chess lessons to programming

4. How to write better code using mutation testing

5. Ruby Tricks

6. Bootstrapping a Business Around Open Source

7. Technological Inflation (by Dotan Nahum)

8. It’s time to stop programming for the teletype era (by Avdi Grimm)

9. Refold

10. Recommended Talk - The Value of Values (by Rich Hickey)

Read it or Throw it #179

1. Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users

2. Relax for the same result (by Derek Sivers)

3. Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code - And It's All in One Place

4. 7 Things You Should Know About WebAssembly

5. Shut the hell up and listen (by Avdi Grimm)

6. LearnElixir.tv

7. Data Infrastructure at IFTTT

8. Recommended Talk - Productive. Reliable. Fast (by Chris McCord)

9. Recommended Talk: You really should know a little bit of Clojure (by Ben Orenstein)

10. Recommended Talk - "Rust for Rubyists" (by Steve Klabnik)

Read it or Throw it #178

1. Legendary Productivity And The Fear Of Modern Programming

2. Ten Predictions (by Steve Yegge)

3. Lessons learned from reading postmortems

4. elixirstatus - Elixir news and status updates from the community for Elixir and Phoenix

5. Streaming Data at LinkedIn: Apache Kafka Reaches 1.1 Trillion Messages Per Day

6. Verizon puts 50,000 Docker containers to work on a massive IoT cluster

7. AWS in Plain English

8. Google loses data as lightning strikes

9 .The Future of Home (Product Hunt)

10. Recommended Video: Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #177

1. Elixir as an Operating System

2. "I’m sure Elixir needed another Redis library, so here you go!"

3. Career planning: The immortal choices aren't (by Ayende)

4. Your Lead Architect Doesn't Really Understand Microservices - The New Stack

5. Announcing an Early Alpha Patch for HTTP/2 - NGINX

6. Speed as a Habit

7. How do you program a computer with 10 terabytes of RAM? (High Scalability)

8. How are some people exceptionally productive? (Hacker News)

9. Ten Redis Commandments

10. 3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled - BBC News

Read it or Throw it #176

1. What is WebAssembly? The Dawn of a New Era — JavaScript Scene

2. Elixir in times of microservices (by José Valim)

3. spacemacs - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim

4. Basics of the Unix Philosophy

5. The UNIX Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go

6. IBM's New Chip Is Four Times as Powerful as Today's Best Silicon

7. Automatic bug repair (MIT News)

8. Handling 1 Million Requests per Minute with Go

9. Brooks’ law

10. IKEA’s Concept Kitchen of 2025: It Cooks, Interacts and Composts

Read it or Throw it #175

1. Why I’m betting on Elixir

2. We all are going to meet in the Elixir world

3. The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System is now generally available

4. MonolithFirst (Martin Fowler)

5. HTTP/2 – The new protocol on the block

6. How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity

7. InfluxDB V0.9.0 Released With Developer And Production Support

8. How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor (Avdi Grimm)

9. Crystal Programming Language

10. José Valim - Keynote: What's Ahead for Elixir? ElixirConf EU 2015 (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #174

1. Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

2. How many lines of code do professional programmers write per hour?

3. 9 Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of

4. Boldly & confidently fail, it is better than the alternative (by Ayende)

5. awesome-rubies

6. CodePicnic

7. Vorlon.JS

8. Blast from the Past: 7 Famous Programs & Games that No Longer Exist

9. unixstickers

10. Should I Learn Vim or Sublime? - YouTube

Read it or Throw it #173

1. HTTP2 and Front-End Performance (3 minutes video)

2. HTTP/2 is much faster than SPDY thanks to dependency-based prioritization

3. Docker Raises $95M Series D Round For Its Container Platform

4. Microsoft Unveils New Container Technologies for the Next Generation Cloud

5. Elixir vs Erlang: a question of momentum

6. ngx_mruby - A Fast and Memory-Efficient Web Server Extension Mechanism Using Scripting Language mruby for nginx

7. Genius - Annotate the World

8. Quirky Shop

9. Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People

10. Transcript of Speech by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at Founders Forum Smart Nation Singapore Reception on 20 April 2015

Read it or Throw it #172

1. The Erlangelist: Yet another introduction to Erlang

2. Refactoring InfluxDB: From Go to Go

3. On SOA, microservices, and neologisms

4. Microservices: the future or empty hype?

5. getAwesomeness() - retrieve all amazing awesomeness from Github

6. tmux-plugins

7. CloudConvert - convert anything to anything

8. DIASSESS - Next Generation DNA Testing

9. Isaac Asimov’s Advice for Being Creative (Hint: Don’t Brainstorm)

10. How to live before you die (Steve Jobs)

Read it or Throw it #171

1. What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers?

2. Which IDEs do Rubyists Use?

3. Watching people code could be the next big thing in live streaming video

4. Understanding gen_server with Elixir and Ruby

5. Faster Grepping in Vim

6. jq is sed for JSON

7. websocketd - Full duplex messaging between web browsers and servers

8. Handling five billion sessions a day – in real time

9. Prometheus - An open-source service monitoring system and time series database

10. Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen, which hopes to take Android from Google

Read it or Throw it #170

1. Databases at 14.4MHz

2. Introducing Elixir Radar: the weekly email newsletter about Elixir

3. Seven Principles of Learning Better From Cognitive Science (Scott-H-Young)

 4. Should You Do Intense, Short-Term Projects, or Build Long-Term Habits? Seven Principles of Learning Better From Cognitive Science (Scott-H-Young)

5. Immutability Changes Everything

6. Pachyderm Wants To Be The Data Processing Tool For The Docker Generation

7. Resin.io - Push Docker Containers to Devices

9. The Do’s and Don’ts of Rapid Scaling for Startups

9. Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think

10. Luna - The world’s first mattress cover that intelligently warms your bed, tracks sleep, and makes your bed smart

Read it or Throw it #169

1. What blocks Ruby, Python to get Javascript V8 speed? (StackOverflow)

2. How Facebook Does Storage

3. Elixir vs Ruby Showdown - Phoenix vs Rails

4. This is what your developers are doing 75% of the time, and this is the cost you pay

5. Rollbar - Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language

6. Readme.io - Beautiful Documentation Made Easy

7. Tmux: A Simple Start

8. Samsung Unveils First PCIe 3.0 x4-based M.2 SSD, Delivering Speeds Of Over 2GB/s

9. Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

10. Funny: An Honest Kickstarter Video (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #168

1. Why Docker Is Going To Dominate Your 2015

2. Docker is the Heroku killer

3. Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015

4. Typesafe’s Jonas Bonér: How Reactive Programming Addresses the Scale-out Problem

5. Curated Git Links of 2014

6. Learning Curves (for different programming languages)

7. Recommended vimrc - Gary Bernhardt's vimrc

8. Burnout is in the Mind

9. Abolishing guids (Ayende)

10. BetaList - Discover tomorrow's startups, today

Read it or Throw it #167

1. Ruby Isn't Dead

2. How to learn efficiently

3. How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (Paul Graham)

4. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

5. 10 Tips for Becoming an Efficient Vim User

6. Cache is the new RAM

7. The categories of validations

8. Iron.io - How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

9. CCMenu - displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac's menu bar

10. Wallflux - Rss feeds for Facebook groups

Inspiring Quote:

“ You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ” 

 Albert Einstein