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Cripple the Prototype: Sabotaging your best ideas(boundary.com)
24 points by cscotta 14y ago|1 comments
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Building Node Diagrams in HTML5 (and a look beyond D3/SVG)(blog.boundary.com)
1 points by cscotta 14y ago|0 comments
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"Hungry Hungry Kobayashi" II: Debugging a Distributed Datastore via the Network(blog.boundary.com)
1 points by cscotta 14y ago|0 comments
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Hungry Hungry Kobayashi - Debugging a Distributed Datastore via the Network(blog.boundary.com)
19 points by cscotta 14y ago|0 comments
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by cscotta 15y ago
It is unfortunate that many young tech companies, in an effort to differentiate themselves, work to invent a new term and cloak it with the appearance of a movement or industry trend. It's further unfortunate when those to whom this term is
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by cscotta 15y ago
>> "It doesn't really fail - none of the issues described were "failures" really." These absolutely were failures. The author listed several instances in which the database became unavailable, the vendor-supplied client drivers refu
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by cscotta 15y ago
If you're curious about Ordasity's load balancing strategies, check out Section 4: "Distribution / Coordination Strategy" in the docs: https://github.com/boundary/ordasity The code is also fairly straightforward to follow if you'd like to
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by cscotta 15y ago
Hey Mitchell, Thanks for asking -- in short, the use cases are a bit different. Finagle is a framework for building asynchronous RPC systems (e.g., services or APIs with transports over HTTP or Thrift), and Ordasity is a library for cluster
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by cscotta 15y ago
Hi Roland, Ordasity could certainly be used in building distributed JRuby applications. However, I'm not sure that pairing it with Rails would be the best use case. Ordasity is designed for building stateful distributed services -- e.g., sy
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Ordasity: Building Stateful Clustered Services on the JVM(blog.boundary.com)
72 points by cscotta 15y ago|18 comments
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Oregon's Self-Employment Assistance Program: States Supporting Entrepreneurship(blog.oregonlive.com)
14 points by cscotta 15y ago|1 comments
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by cscotta 15y ago
I'd like to offer a counterpoint to the author's suggestion that "you'd be an idiot not to buy [and dispose of] a new laptop every year." I'm a software engineer and put a lot on my computer's shoulders, running an entire cluster's worth of
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by cscotta 15y ago
A few of these options are good in principle, but are not necessarily informed by the reality of operational experience with the more-common failure modes of AWS at a medium to larger scale (~50 instances +). The author recommends using EBS
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by cscotta 16y ago
Absolutely - thanks, Matt. This is a very well-written, thorough article, and it provides a clear, thoughtful survey of the landscape for folks who are interested in parallelizing their programs and learning more about the advantages and tr
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by cscotta 16y ago
Pushing a language, its libraries, and extensions which have traditionally presumed linear execution into a threaded/parallel world is a minefield. I'd like to offer a few thoughts on some factors which might have contributed to this comple
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Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improvements, Targetable VM(rubini.us)
90 points by cscotta 16y ago|21 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
"It's maddening to see an article that you think will let you make progress in a problem you're working on, but unable to access it because of the $15 fee..." Enough progress to justify spending $15 (less than the price of dinner downtown)?
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Deploying the Octobot: Distributed High-Performance Messaging(blog.urbanairship.com)
25 points by cscotta 16y ago|2 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
Mike's a great guy, and I appreciate his post but would respectfully disagree with the proposal to strip the standard library down to barebones and break out the removed classes into gems (along with the post's title to which I object, but
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by cscotta 16y ago
This a great, succinct guide - glad to see it. One very important step five to add: check with your state's Secretary of State office to see if there are any additional steps that must be taken. Many states require foreign-registered LLCs
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Apache Responds to Oracle, Demands Access to TCK(blogs.apache.org)
2 points by cscotta 16y ago|0 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
I've read through this post a few times and am having some difficulty understanding both the original problem and the solution that Greg is suggesting. From what I can gather, it seems that Netflix's product development team is frustrated t
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Debugging in an Asynchronous World: Techniques for Instrumenting Complex Systems(queue.acm.org)
2 points by cscotta 16y ago|0 comments
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Thinking Clearly About Application Latency, Yield, and Capacity Planning(queue.acm.org)
2 points by cscotta 16y ago|0 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
Hey Hugo, I've somehow become a bit of a devil's advocate for Java lately. Thanks for pinging me - happy to offer a few thoughts. I've not actually tried using Jersey/JAX, but it looks like a very clean setup for quickly writing low-latency
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by cscotta 16y ago
You've received several votes for your comment, and I respect that. But I also respect those who prefer a language which offers type safety. One which does not lay traps of unexpected coercion and unfathomably unusual truth tables. I respec
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by cscotta 16y ago
I've been watching this come together for awhile now - Aerostat's a pretty cool little service for managing a cluster. Rather than relying on a custom internal DNS implementation, Aerostat automatically names servers as they are added to a
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by cscotta 16y ago
I'd consider asking yourself what you expect and/or hope to get out of it. A two-hour commute for an uninspiring job does not sound like something terribly enjoyable or fulfilling. Perhaps others here could suggest different opportunities i
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by cscotta 16y ago
Some really interesting points on the connections between starting a company and a life together, especially regarding "learning to learn." Suffer through the hard times, adapt, and celebrate the good when it comes. Unfortunately, in the ma
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by cscotta 16y ago
> 90% of Java's libraries are very, erm, "enterprise." Are they? Apache's Commons collection of libraries such as ArrayUtils, StringUtils, IO, and the like, along with JSON-Simple/jvYAML, the servlet API, any database driver, Log4J, and

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