michaelfairley

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by michaelfairley 5y ago
Durability is not availability.
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by michaelfairley 10y ago
baz(foo).expect(format!("Cannot do baz, foo={}", foo)).bar().expect("Cannot do bar");
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Launching Instant Payments for Our European Merchants(braintreepayments.com)
12 points by michaelfairley 12y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Trustworthy: The "Two-man rule" for your data(jtdowney.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 13y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 13y ago
Goroutines are green threads[1], and thus are threads, just like Ruby 1.8s threads are threads. Also, you can easily run 10s of thousands of kernel threads (provided you decrease the threads' stack size). 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr
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by michaelfairley 13y ago
Venmo now has payout business accounts: https://venmo.com/payouts
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by michaelfairley 13y ago
https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
The "backwards-incompatible change" was part of a security fix, not an unrelated non-security change.
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Dance the flip-flop(robinsloan.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Braintree.js cuts down PCI scope as much as tokenization. We've worked with banks and auditors to make sure that this doesn't add any headaches for our merchants.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
We recommend that you don't store or log credit card data encrypted with Braintree.js. As far as PCI compliance, Braintree.js minimizes your PCI scope as much as tokenization. As long as you serve your site over SSL and maintain adequate se
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Closing the server is easy; making sure all in flight requests finish successfully, not so easy.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
My favorite – the method that determines the size of the connection pool: http://golang.org/src/pkg/database/sql/sql.go#L227
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
I've run Go in production for a web application, and I'll say that Go is not a great choice for this task. The built in HTTP server doesn't have a way to shut down gracefully, there's not a good zero-downtime restart story, and the standard
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Introducing Braintree.js: The easiest way to accept credit cards online(braintreepayments.com)
4 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
You can also follow the letter in C, Java, etc.: a ^= b b ^= a a ^= b
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
There's another large issue with queueing requests on the dyno: when the app restarts, all the requests currently queued up on that dyno get dropped and the client receives a 503.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
There's another fun issue that falls out of this: any requests sitting in the dyno queue when the app restarts get dropped with a 5xx error. https://github.com/michaelfairley/unicorn-heroku/issues/1#is...
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Almost all Ruby web apps are deployed on top of Rack.
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Multiple vulnerabilities found in Rack(groups.google.com)
21 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|7 comments
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Venmo Touch: In-app payments with one tap(touch.venmo.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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Simple NYE Postmortem(status.simple.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
He wants "x is declared but never used" to be an error that halts compilation. Go's philosophy on this[1] is "if it's worth complaining about, it's worth fixing in the code." 1: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#unused_variables_and_impor.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
This affects all versions of Rails, not just 3.x. This is a really, really bad hole, and you should patch or upgrade ASAP.
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
http://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/
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A guide to working with Riemann(aphyr.github.com)
4 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|3 comments
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On Twitter, at Twitter(antirez.com)
1 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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MIG-in-the-middle(danteslab-eng.blogspot.com)
3 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|1 comments
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The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know(codinghorror.com)
2 points by michaelfairley 14y ago|0 comments
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by michaelfairley 14y ago
Not your typical book, but it's very good: http://designinghypermediaapis.com/

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