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

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