I just finished Antonio García Martínez’s excellent memoir Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, and it…
It seems like every other startup has added a Docker angle to their pitch. Many developers choose Rails because it allows them to be…
When having the right UX tools can be the crucial difference between having a collaborative, seamless, and overall highly effective design workflow and one that’s slow and unproductive, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest tools and technologies.
While companies like Amazon are releasing their own container services, leverage the portability of containers to create a platform that allows you to work with Docker on from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, or even to customize it on your own.
A copy of the chapter 14 about Caching of the “Learn Rails 5.2” book (Amazon Link, Apress Link) which was published in April 2018 by…
tl;dr: Event Sourcing is to data what Git is to code. We’ve implemented a minimal event sourcing framework at Kickstarter to power d.rip…
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Simplify string processing in Python 3.6.5 and later
Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR.
Stuxnet worm crypto security
List and specifications of lenses for Fourr Thirds system cameras, mostly the Olympus E-System
An introduction to the future of data science
Rewriting deprecated APIs with parser gem In upcoming Rails Event Store release we’re going to deprecate existing reader methods. They’ll be replaced in favor of fluent query interface — popularized by ActiveRecord. In order to make this transition a bit easier, we’ve prepared a script to transform given codebase to utilize new APIs.
You work in a 100 floor building and you get 2 identical eggs. You need to figure out the highest floor an egg can be dropped without breaking. Find an algorithm that is minimizing number of throws in the worst-case scenario.
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I stumbled upon the Datamuse API the other day as I was looking for thesaurus-like data for some small app I am currently toying with. If…
The History of Processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry