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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 tre…

>> "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 …

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…

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…

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 des…

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 m…

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 lar…

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 …

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…

"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 ju…

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 in…

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 …

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 s…

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 l…