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Our friends at SoundCloud embarked on a journey a few years ago that changed their system and moved it from a monolithic Rails application towards an ecosystem of microservices.
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
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Postgres and Node - Hands on using Postgres as a Document Store with MassiveJS
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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10 years ago
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JSONB in Postgres is absolutely awesome, but it’s taken a little while for libraries to come around to make it as useful as would be ideal. For those not following along with Postgres lately, here’s the quick catchup for it as a NoSQL database. In Postgres 8.3 over 5 years ago Postgres received hstore a key/value store directly in Postgres. It’s big limitation was it was only for text In the years after it got GIN and GiST indexes to ma....
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Postgres and Node - Hands on using Postgres as a Document Store with MassiveJS
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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10 years ago
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eng
JSONB in Postgres is absolutely awesome, but it’s taken a little while for libraries to come around to make it as useful as would be ideal. For those not following along with Postgres lately, here’s the quick catchup for it as a NoSQL database. In Postgres 8.3 over 5 years ago Postgres received hstore a key/value store directly in Postgres. It’s big limitation was it was only for text In the years after it got GIN and GiST indexes to ma....
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http://time.com/money/4139330/apple-pay-unused/ Survey: Only 20% of those that can use Apple Pay have used it Trustev surveyed 1,000 consumers who owned Apple Pay-compatible iPhones about their Apple Pay habits. (The iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 6s Plus support Apple Pay, while older iPhones do not.) It found that about 80% had not used Apple Pay even once. Of the 20% who had, most (56%) only used it about once a week.
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AdRoll uses large-scale machine learning to bid intelligently in internet advertising auctions. In this post, we explore some of the engineering behind the data pipelines that feed our learning algorithms, in particular our real-time system that constructs features from event streams. #Overview If you have been served a banner ad on the internet in the past few years, there is a good chance that ad was served through a process known as....
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We wrote quite a bit about the architecture of the new VM we built for iOS and why we built it. Up until recently we always viewed it as a Codename One specific tool. Something that would only be useful for us. We used open source because “that is our way” and didn’t give it much thought after that. It started to dawn on us recently that this tool could be useful for other developers that might take it in a different direction from ..
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Note: this post was originally written for the Go Advent 2015 series, but I discovered that a post with almost exactly the same subject (and even similar code!) already planned :) That’s amazing. Golang is often used for writing microservices and various backends. Often these type of software do some computation, read/write data on external storage and expose it’s API via http handlers. All this functionality is remarkably easy to impl..
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Note: this post was originally written for the Go Advent 2015 series, but I discovered that a post with almost exactly the same subject (and even similar code!) already planned :) That’s amazing. Golang is often used for writing microservices and various backends. Often these type of software do some computation, read/write data on external storage and expose it’s API via http handlers. All this functionality is remarkably easy to impl..
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The output In reverse order; unless otherwise indicated, things were created on iOS and recorded over Audiobus to Audioshare before exporting to Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/zimpenfish/tidal-noisevember (Tidal through Audacity) https://soundcloud.com/zimpenfish/much-indulgent-very-soundscape (SoundScaper) https://soundcloud.com/zimpenfish/just-beatwave-drums (Beatwave) https://soundcloud.com/zimpenfish/coconut-latte (Figure); https://....
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Based on Getting Started with Flutter . $ curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/dart-archive/channels/stable/release/1.13.0/sdk/dartsdk-macos-x64-release.zip $ unzip dartsdk-macos-x64-release.zip $ export PATH=`pwd`/dart-sdk/bin:$PATH Verify with: $ pub --version
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Dart SDK ships with an analysis server . Very handy if you'd like to write a completion plugin for your favorite editor. The API is well documented . Of interest, there's LocalDartServer.java , part of dartedit . $ dart path/to/bin/snapshots/analysis_server.dart.snapshot --sdk=path/to/dart-sdk NOTE: The server reads requests from standard input. Either escape or execute the following as one-liner json requests. { "id": "1\n", "me..
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Like it or not, meetings are an essential part of any project communication plan. They can be an excellent way to create common knowledge and a shared understanding of a subject, or even to make group decisions. However, meetings may not always produce the desired outcomes. It is not uncommon to hear people complaining about a meeting that didn't add any value to the team.
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Business, Design and Technology: Joining Forces for a Truly Competitive Advantage
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www.thoughtworks.com
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10 years ago
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Technology is no longer an expensive monolith that needs to be overcome for businesses to succeed. In the emerging digital economy companies are learning new ways to leverage technology. They are reshaping their business models and the relationships they have with their customer. The list of industries being disrupted by digital technologies is growing. The recording industry, banks, retailers, telcos and taxis are just the beginning. Any i..
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Part One: Bow to Your Sensei These tips are the dojo ground rules you must learn before even the most basic command line work can get done. If you haven't got these down, everything is going to take much longer than it needs to. These are also definitely a prerequisite to any command line activity while pair programming if you don't want your pair to pull their hair out during the session. tab completion The shell can help you out wit....
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Part One: Bow to Your Sensei These tips are the dojo ground rules you must learn before even the most basic command line work can get done. If you haven't got these down, everything is going to take much longer than it needs to. These are also definitely a prerequisite to any command line activity while pair programming if you don't want your pair to pull their hair out during the session. tab completion The shell can help you out wit....
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10 Swift One Liners To Impress Your Friends . 5 secrets of Swift API design . 5 small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1 | Swift by Sundell . @State messing with initializer flow - Using Swift - Swift Forums . A beautiful graphics framework for Material Design in Swift . A collection view layout capable of laying out views in vertically scrolling grids and lists (AirBnB) . A first look at the new diffable data sources for table....
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UPDATE August 10, 2018 – The steps described in this article are out of date. The Codename One project now includes an ANT script that will retrieve dependencies and build the project automatically. See the Quick Start section of the README for instructions. I’ve written open source software since the 90’s both for my own projects and for Sun Microsystems. When we founded Codename One open source was the only option! We didn’t choo..
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This is the first year that I’ve been to the World of Commodore event in Mississauga, Ontario. It’s a yearly gathering of Commodorks who create new software and hardware for vintage Commodore computers. I had no idea that it even existed until someone I knew told me about it. Since it’s relatively close to me, I just had to go. Plus, I have many Commodore computers in my vintage computer collection.
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This is the first year that I’ve been to the World of Commodore event in Mississauga, Ontario. It’s a yearly gathering of Commodorks who create new software and hardware for vintage Commodore computers. I had no idea that it even existed until someone I knew told me about it. Since it’s relatively close to me, I just had to go. Plus, I have many Commodore computers in my vintage computer collection.
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Since Docker 1.9, the multi-host networks can be used very easily. All you have to do is just setup your Swarm cluster and use docker network create -d mynet and voila: Your multi host network is ready. I want to do a benchmark of this new feature, however, the official multi host networking examples are in Virtualbox and local performance can be misleading. I created an image called mustafaakin/alpine-iperf just has the Alpine image plus i..
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Desiccant . I really enjoy the way that word sounds. It’s like a discount version of decadent , except that it hasn’t been soiled by rampant overuse in chocolate commercials. I was curious as to its etymology which, as you’ll see above, isn’t nearly as exciting as I’d hoped. I had never even heard of the word until a reader, known only to me as “BoscoBob”, brought it up in an email.
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Desiccant . I really enjoy the way that word sounds. It’s like a discount version of decadent , except that it hasn’t been soiled by rampant overuse in chocolate commercials. I was curious as to its etymology which, as you’ll see above, isn’t nearly as exciting as I’d hoped. I had never even heard of the word until a reader, known only to me as “BoscoBob”, brought it up in an email.
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I’m excited to announce Snyk is now live! Snyk helps you find and fix known vulnerabilities in your Node.js dependencies. These are publicly documented security holes, making them easy for attackers to track and exploit.
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Do you own a website? If so, as of today Let's Encrypt , a new non-profit certificate authority (CA), entered Public Beta and allows you to add HTTPS to your website for free and more easily than ever before. If you've ever experienced the hassle of setting up a secure website, you'll be pleased to know that Let's Encrypt automates the entire process and only requires you to manage HTTPS with a few simple commands . This could be a hu....
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It’s been a while (six months almost to the day) since I did my last big Home Improvement post , and I think it’s about high time we changed that. Not only because a lack of Home Improvement posts signals stagnancy on the front of truck-progress, but also because there is much to be improved upon truck-wise, and I should be more proactive and motivated to work on it. This, as is likely evident from the title, is just a “Mini” Home Improv..
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It’s been a while (six months almost to the day) since I did my last big Home Improvement post , and I think it’s about high time we changed that. Not only because a lack of Home Improvement posts signals stagnancy on the front of truck-progress, but also because there is much to be improved upon truck-wise, and I should be more proactive and motivated to work on it. This, as is likely evident from the title, is just a “Mini” Home Improv..
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The advances and growth of our Selenium based automated testing infrastructure generated an unexpected number of test results to evaluate. We had to rethink our reporting systems. Combining the power of Selenium with Kibana's graphing and filtering features totally changed our way of working.
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The advances and growth of our Selenium based automated testing infrastructure generated an unexpected number of test results to evaluate. We had to rethink our reporting systems. Combining the power of Selenium with Kibana's graphing and filtering features totally changed our way of working.
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Setting the Scene My team and I were excited by the prospect of adding fingerprint login to the iOS version of our banking App. It was something our users had been asking for. As a team, we wanted to try out the new technology and create a more user friendly and quick way for customers to login and access their bank information.
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I am the Managing Director of Thoughtworks Singapore. It has been 10 years since I came on board. It was very hard to imagine that a non-English speaking Chinese with no programming skills would join a global IT company back in 2005. And not just join, but thrive.
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One of my favorite Pixar movies is Ratatouille, maybe because I’m such a glutton. So when I was thinking about the next tutorial/demo and the idea of a restaurant app came up I knew it had to be based on Ratatouille. This is a relatively simple demo that can literally fit in a single blog post all the way thru and the real cool thing about it is that you can try the JavaScript version right now from your browser without compiling ..
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Node, Postgres, MassiveJS - A better database experience
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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10 years ago
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eng
First some background–I’ve always had a bit of a love hate relationship with ORMs. ORMs are great for basic crud applications, which inevitably happens at some point for an app. The main two problems I have with ORMs is: They treat all databases as equal (yes, this is a little overgeneralized but typically true). They claim to do this for database portability, but in reality an app still can’t just up and move from one to another. They do....
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