Read it or Throw it #200

1. Mocks and explicit contracts (by José Valim)

2. Service Mesh

3. Using constant pools to speed up your Elixir code

4. Haskell, the Language Most Likely to Change the Way you Think About Programming

5. There's one big reason that Postgres can't kill Oracle, and it's not the technology

6. For the First Time Ever Scientists Have Boosted Human Memory With a Brain Implant

7. WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers

8. Fear of missing out

9. Recommended Book - Clojure for the Brave and True

10. Recommended Book - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do

Michael Phelps

Read it or Throw it #199

1. Apache Kafka Goes 1.0

2. InfluxDB Internals 101 - Data Model & Write Path

3. Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

4. Why I'm Productive in Clojure

5. Never Stop Serving: Making Redis Concurrent With Modules

6. StreamData: Property-based testing and data generation for Elixir

7. Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data

8. KSQL

9. Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

10. Recommended Video - Distributed Systems in One Lesson by Tim Berglund

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points"

Alan Kay

Read it or Throw it #198

1. Elixir v1.5 released

2. The fallacies of web application performance (José Valim)

3. The cost of an extension point (Ayende)

4. Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes

5. Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret

6. exa - A modern replacement for ls

7. Wasabi (Cloud Storage)

8. chromeless - Chrome automation made simple

9. The secret lives of millionaire tech engineers who 'rest and vest'

10. Recommended Book - The Little MLer

Read it or Throw it #197

1. Is Ruby Too Slow For Web-Scale?

2. Episode 2: How Fast is Elixir 1.5?

3. A thread per task keep the headache away (Ayende)

4. MemoryImage

5. Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?

6. Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet (TechCrunch)

7. Mastering Programming (Kent Beck)

8.. Being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job

9. Dunning–Kruger effect (Wikipedia)

10. Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course (TED Talk)

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life"

Winston Churchill

Read it or Throw it #196

1. The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain

2. CPU Utilization is Wrong (Brendan Gregg)

3. Sockets in a Bind

4. Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone

5. With Cosmos DB, Microsoft wants to build one database to rule them all

6. Sinatra 2.0

7. MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database

8. Remote work: For programmers, the ultimate office perk is avoiding the office entirely

9. Empty Your Cup

10. Recommended talk: The Science of Success - Prof. Yoram Yovell

Read it or Throw it #195

1. At Long Last, Linux Gets Dynamic Tracing

2. Crystal new year resolutions for 2017: 1.0

3. Benefits of dependencies in software projects as a function of effort

4. Isaac Asimov wrote almost 500 books in his lifetime—these are the six ways he did it

5. This browser tweak saved 60% of requests to Facebook

6. Moving persistent data out of Redis - GitHub Engineering

7. How Discord Stores Billions of Messages

8. Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon

9. If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work

10. Cafe X opens in San Francisco, bringing robots to the coffee shop