April picks

Wed, May 6, 2015

“Random picks from all over the Internet”.

English

Articles

• Highly Distributed Computations Without Synchronization

  Christopher Meiklejohn shows programming model for eventually consistent computations. What it basically does is ensuring that the strong convergence properties of individual CRDTs are preserved when we compose them in our program. (see video of his presentation at Erlang Factory below)

• Debugging memory leaks in Ruby

  Another great post from Sam Saffron about memory leaks in Ruby. Worth reading for all rubyists.

• Lessons Learned while Working on Large-Scale Server Software

  “Of all the lessons I’ve learned, there is one that can summarize them all in 3 simple words: everything is terrible.” - Fred Hebert

Slides

Couple of really good presentations by Attendify engineers (Clojure and CLJS in production for 3 years):

• Microservices in Clojure by Alexey Kachayev

• ClojureScript and React by Myron Mavko

Videos

• Distributed Eventually Consistent Computations by Christopher Meiklejohn

• Everything Will Flow by Zach Tellman

  Lots of useful advices on queues, and how you need to design them, especially if you’re planning for big load. Didn’t know about Queueing Theory!