Archive for April, 2013

The btrfs backup experiment | Anchor Web Hosting Blog

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…

The btrfs backup experiment | Anchor Web Hosting Blog

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…

richievos/remote_includes · GitHub [SSI, ESI, Javascript]

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

how assemble your pages from HTML partials on the client, front-end or CDN edge.

richievos/remote_includes · GitHub [SSI, ESI, Javascript]

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

how assemble your pages from HTML partials on the client, front-end or CDN edge.

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view

Coding Horror: Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs

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…

Coding Horror: Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs

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…

In praise of “boring” technology | Spotify Labs

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…

In praise of “boring” technology | Spotify Labs

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…