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A very valid concern. We will work on this.

A big advantage of LF-delimited over length-prefixed messages is netcat/telnet-friendliness. That was more valuable to us than being binary-clean as our use cases do not involve se…

Netstrings look neat although I find the use of a redundant comma delimiter somewhat confusing. Buffer overflow concerns are not applicable to SSMP however, as the spec explicitly …

Client auth is explained in more details in the spec: https://github.com/aerofs/ssmp Our most common use case is client certificates but there are provisions for alternate auth sch…

base64 is the preferred way but any 8-bit encoding that doesn't use LF would also work. There is no support for a length header or chunking as SSMP is designed with small messages …

Not currently but we'd love to do it if there's enough interest to justify a more formal standardization.

At first glance: - golang-builder does not provide a convenient script, instead requiring manual docker invocations [more flexible but more cumbersome] - golang-builder uses volume…

We're not doing anything too fancy. Basically, we spawn a container to build a statically linked binary and do a regular Dockerfile-based build inside that container. The result is…

> This isn't so much Java vs. Go as it is JIT/interpreted vs. AOT-compiled. The numbers are entirely typical across a wide range of such comparisons. > [...] while an app written i…

Hehe, yes, I'm afraid I have a proclivity for terrible puns. I do think they're somewhat less cringe-worthy that the link-bait titles that are all the rage these days (or at least …

Basically Ubuntu 15.04 docker image + openjdk8 + mysqlclient + the service itself

The footprint of this particular service could have been optimized in Java but: 1. the JVM itself imposes a high floor (hotspot, many shared libs loaded, ...) 2. the Java language …

As mentioned in the blog post, this was a hackathon project originally, hence the motivation to start with a very small server. The other servers that went through a rewrite also e…

At this point we have 6 microservices written in go in the appliance: - team-server probe: already mentioned in the blog post. Determines if any installed Team Server is down. - ca…

Go all the way to appendix B for the serious part. It's interesting how, besides the obvious jokes in every other sentence, the paper is otherwise almost plausible.

I value coworkers whose company I enjoy and who genuinely care about making customers happy. There's a wide spectrum between detached paycheck collector and over-invested lifer tha…

Such anger. I don't recall claiming to make the world a better place. We've changed our focus since I joined and to be honest I was more excited about the original vision but I'll …

Don't get me wrong, the terms of the H1B are pretty terrible but that should not detract from Yuri's point that quotas and other immigration restrictions have a serious impact on s…

Or, you know, keep the person they've been training for 2 years and that is now the most knowledgeable about some sizable chunks of the product...

FYI, I am the employee mentioned in that post and your statement is just hilarious. Obviously, a young French guy with disposable income, no dependents and earthly possessions that…