Archive for April, 2013
		
		
				
				
				Friday, April 26th, 2013
				
				
					Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern systems, so we’ve been putting it through its paces on some o…
				 
		
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				Friday, April 26th, 2013
				
				
					Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern systems, so we’ve been putting it through its paces on some o…
				 
		
				Posted in backup, btrfs, experiment, filesystems, Linux |   Comments Off | permalink 
 
				
				
			 
	
				
				
				Thursday, April 25th, 2013
				
				
					how assemble your pages from HTML partials on the client, front-end or CDN edge.
				 
		
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				Thursday, April 25th, 2013
				
				
					how assemble your pages from HTML partials on the client, front-end or CDN edge.
				 
		
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				Thursday, April 25th, 2013
				
				
					software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view
				 
		
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				Thursday, April 25th, 2013
				
				
					software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view
				 
		
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				Sunday, April 14th, 2013
				
				
					blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software. "Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven’t touched this…
				 
		
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				Sunday, April 14th, 2013
				
				
					blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software. "Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven’t touched this…
				 
		
				Posted in design, engineering, scalability |   Comments Off | permalink 
 
				
				
			 
	
				
				
				Sunday, April 14th, 2013
				
				
					More often than not, the right tool for the job is piece of software that has been around for some time, with proven success. One example would be writing a backend service in Java or Python instead of Go or Node.JS. Another example would be storing da…
				 
		
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				Sunday, April 14th, 2013
				
				
					More often than not, the right tool for the job is piece of software that has been around for some time, with proven success. One example would be writing a backend service in Java or Python instead of Go or Node.JS. Another example would be storing da…
				 
		
				Posted in development, engineering, technology, tools |   Comments Off | permalink