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

Read it or Throw it #194

1. Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods

2. 10x speedup utilizing Nagle Algorithm in business application (by Ayende)

3. RACK::APP - Ruby Web Application framework - Fully BDD - Performance optimised

4. Elixir, Ruby, don’t fight. Talk… with Export/Erlport

5. AI Develops Software (by Greg Young)

6. "CFO asks CEO" tweet

7. Muzo - Your Personal Zone Creator with Noise Blocking Tech (Kickstarter)

8. Recommended Book: The Honest Truth About Dishonesty (by Dan Ariely)

9. Recommended Book: Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (by Chris McCord)

10. Recommended Talk - Diving into the Details with DTrace

Read it or Throw it #193

1. Instant Messaging at LinkedIn

2. Asynchronous processing with in-memory databases

3. Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained

4. A Quantum Leap for the Web – Mozilla Tech

5. Design patterns in the test of time (by Ayende)

6. avionics - Why are critical flight computers redundant? (Stack Exchange)

7. Million Lines of Code

8. Fuck You Startup World

9. The One Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires

10. Recommended Video - Hammock Driven Development (by Rich Hickey)

Read it or Throw it #192

1. The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals Series (by Ayende)

2. Awesome Programmers

3. 10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes

4. Artificial Neural Networks, Elixir, and You

5. Need a Second Opinion on Your Ruby Code? Ask Crystal (by Pat Shaughnessy)

6. Monitoring Anomalies in the Experimentation Platform

7. PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.6 Released!

8. Stack Match

9. Fluency vs Mastery: Can You Be Fluent Without Being Good (by Scott H. Young)

10. funny Tweet: There are only two hard problems in distributed systems ...

"The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Read it or Throw it #191

1. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Adds Sharding Support with Redis Cluster

2. Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

3. Elasticsearch Will Soon Get Machine Learning with Elastic's Prelert Acquisition

4. Reflections of an "Old" Programmer

5. On the limits of TDD, and the limits of studies of TDD

6. Entity Component Systems (in Elixir)

7. A Famous Rabbi’s Advice for Getting Important Things Done (Cal Newport)

8. Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers? (Cal Newport)

9. Choice and Truth: 8th Grade Exam From 1912 Shows How Much Education Has Been Dumbed Down

10. Recommended Book: Release It!

Read it or Throw it #190

1. The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: B+Tree (by Ayende)

2. Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs

3. Distributed Transactions: The Icebergs of Microservices

4. Writing Redis Modules

5. How Envelope Encryption Works with Supported AWS Services

6. InfluxData closes $16 million Series B

7. To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right

8. Recommended Book: The Little Schemer

9. Recommended Video: What Other Languages Can Learn From Rust (by Yehuda Katz)

10. Recommended Video: ElixirConf 2016 - Keynote by José Valim

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

Phil Karlton