Read it or Throw it #203

1. “The work on streams is finished. Release candidate No. 1 is weeks away.” -@antirez, Founder of #Redis #RedisConf 

see also: Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis

2. MultiRedis - Because One Redis Isn’t Enough (my talk at Redis Day Tel Aviv 2018)

3. Rust turns three

4. TiDB 2.0 (open-source distributed scalable Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing database)

5. The creator of Ruby says "We will do everything to survive"

6. Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018

7. vim-polyglot - a solid language pack for Vim

8. Timber.io - Log Better
9. Elixircards - Flashcards to help you master Elixir

10. Rich Hickey talks

Read it or Throw it #202

1. AppSignal: Error tracking and performance insights for Ruby and Elixir

2. Apache Arrow - A cross-language development platform for in-memory data

3. Elixir on Google Cloud Platform

4. InfluxData Raises $35M to Accelerate Growth and Meet Global Demand

5. MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions

6. Announcing log processing and analytics in Datadog

7. UNLINK: Speed Up Your Applications (Redis Labs)

8. What are the differences between Rust's `String` and `str`? (Stack Overflow)

9. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

10. Book recommendations in the test of time (Ayende)

Read it or Throw it #201

1. Ruby 2.5.0 Released

2. Rust to the rescue (of Ruby)

3. Helix: Native Ruby Extensions Without Fear

4. A primer on Elixir Stream

5. fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder

6. ale: Asynchronous Lint Engine for vim

7. How Asana Creates a Great Developer Environment

8. The Blog Post on Monitoring an Apache Kafka Deployment to End Most Blog Posts 

9. Recommended Video: Event Sourcing is actually just functional code (by Greg Young)

10. Recommended Book: Blockchain Basics

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Abraham Lincoln

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