Read it or Throw it #189

1. Keep earning your title, or it expires

2. Google's QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP

3. How do Erlang Microprocesses work internally? (reddit)

4. operating system - How does multi-level page table save memory space? (StackOverflow)

5. Remove auto-complete field entries in Google Chrome (Super User)

6. API Design: robust error handling and recovery (Ayende)

7. Die Dashboards, Die! Why Conversations Will Reinvent Software

8. China has actually built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic

9. funny tweet: "JavaScript: stay awesome"

10. Recommended Book: Programming Elixir

Read it or Throw it #188

1. Announcing GenStage

2. Elixir Flow-Based Programming: GenStage Example

3. Monitoring our Stack with Elixir

4. Using the fuse Erlang library to implement the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Elixir

5. Challenge: The race condition in the TCP stack (by Ayende)

6. Caching, What is it Good For?

7. Redis MONITOR Command

8. Redis Labs raises $14M for its in-memory NoSQL database services

9. Vim Gifs

10. The Evolution of a Software Engineer

"The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."

Joe Armstrong

Read it or Throw it #187

1. Redis Loadable Modules System - <antirez>

2. Beyond Functional Programming with Elixir and Erlang (by José Valim)

3. Handling TCP connections in Elixir

4. My time with Rails is up

5. Do GPU optimized databases threaten the hegemony of Oracle, Splunk and Hadoop?

6. Why kernel code/thread executing in interrupt context cannot sleep?

7. Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity - The Japan News

8. Year 2038 problem (Wikipedia)

9. Muscle memory (Wikipedia)

10. SkinTrack: Using the Body as an Electrical Waveguide for Continuous Finger Tracking on the Skin (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #186

1. Redis Memory Optimisations

2. Force-evict expired keys from redis

3. To Compress or Not to Compress, that was Uber's Question

4. Managing two million web servers

5. Why Erlang Matters

6. Netdata - Real-time performance monitoring, in the greatest possible detail

7. Google may be considering Swift for use on Android

8. What every Browser knows about you

9. Classic Programmer Paintings

10. Recommended Talk: CRDTs: Consistency without consensus

Read it or Throw it #185

1. Redox - a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust

2. How an angry programmer almost broke the internet by deleting 11 lines of code

3. The role of logs (Ayende)

4. Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem

5. 10M Concurrent Websockets

6. Citus Unforks From PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source

7. Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook's Secrets to Hiring the Best People

8. What f#&king programming language should I use?

7. Recommended Talk: Change Data Capture: The Magic Wand We Forgot (Martin Kleppmann)

9. Recommended Talk: Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional (Chris McCord & Evan Czaplicki)

10. Recommended Talk: Modeling your domain (Norbert Wojtowicz)

Read it or Throw it #184

1. Infrastructure Engineering in the 21st Century

2. The Wrong Abstraction (Sandi Metz)

3. Provisioning vs Configuration

4. Spacemacs and Alchemist to make Elixir of immortality

5. SnappyData - The World's First OLTP + OLAP Database built on Spark

6. Cubetto - Hands on coding for ages 3 and up by Primo Toys (Kickstarter)

7. OSSnews

8. 10 Healthy Habits For Your Brain

9. Recommended Talk: Things that Matter (by Bruce Tate)

10. Recommended Talk: "Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" (by Martin Kleppmann)

Read it or Throw it #183

1. Kill Your Dependencies

2. Sacrificial Architecture (by Martin Fowler)

3. If you’re a db, you need to manage CPU / Memory / IO (Ayende)

4. Elixir obsoletes Ruby, Erlang and Clojure in one go

5. Phoenix is Rails 5

6. The Reactive Manifesto

7. A Field Guide to Developers (Joel Spolsky)

8. Microsoft to acquire Xamarin and empower more developers to build apps on any device

9. First Click: This $1 chip will connect your things to the city for free

10. Atlas, The Next Generation (YouTube)