Dec 26
It’s a bit late, perhaps, but here’s a list of some of the advent calendars for 2014. QEMU Perl 6 Advent Calendar Catalyst Java Advent Calendar Gopher Academy 2014 Calendar Free Font Advent Calendar 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends A huge list of Advent Calendars can be found at Qiita. A “Planet” aggregator for …
Dec 26
Arts and Crafts Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as snowflakes? Genius Fun Stuff The 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar Data Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs OrientDB vs Aerospike vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison generatedata.com — generate “random” datasets. It …
Dec 24
I’m in the process of revisiting and migrating a service I’d first written almost five years ago; one of the backend data sources has changed (drastically!) so I’m looking at refactoring as well as streamlining in the process — parsing the new backend takes longer than the old. Part of the reason for doing so …
Dec 19
Change is seldom fun, but management can make it good. Here are some things to do and not to do when managing change.
Dec 19
These are various and sundry interesting things I’ve come across during the week. Random The Icelandic word for raccoon is þvottabjörn which means “laundry bear.” — @SamuelMoen All the Pretty Things Christmas Experiments: Advent Calendar of Open Web Technologies Cloud Computing StackStorm vs. AWS Lambda: Event-Driven Computing vs. Event-Driven Operations AWS Lambda Announcing Snappy Ubuntu …
Dec 18
Screaming customers are the path to the dark side. Screaming customers lead to phone calls. Phone calls lead to upset managers. Upset managers lead to insomnia. — Yoda A recent survey from Enterprise Management Associates identified user phone calls, also known as Screaming Customer Management Protocol (SCMP), as the most common way — by a …
Dec 18
Intro As a proof of concept, this uses the docker hectcastro/riak-cs container to create the riak-cs cluster. Some flavour of linux with a recent Docker version is assumed. Riak-CS Pull the github repository; it has a Makefile and scripts to bring up the cluster and test it. It can set up a haproxy container in …
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