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DevOps
Crouching Supervisor, Hidden File Descriptor Setting
Here’s an interesting problem our team faced last month that was extremely infuriating. We were in the process of launching…
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DevOps
Immutable Servers With Packer and Puppet
Lately I’ve been becoming more and more of a fan of is the concept of Immutable Servers while automating our…
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Enterprise Java
RabbitMQ: Scheduled Message Delivery
Earlier this month I gave a presentation at ComoRichWeb on RabbitMQ and one question from an attendee was “Is it…
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Software Development
A Tale of Two Cultures: Hackers and Enterprise Developers
Today I found myself thinking again of what I see as two distinct cultures in the development world: Hackers and…
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Enterprise Java
Streaming Files from MongoDB GridFS
Not too long ago I tweeted what I felt was a small triumph on my latest project, streaming files from…
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Software Development
Big Company vs. Small Company
The other day I was having lunch with a friend of mine who works for a medium sized company (by…
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Enterprise Java
Spring 3.1 Cache Abstraction Tutorial
One of the new features introduced in the forthcoming Spring 3.1 version is the one of cache abstraction. Spring Framework…
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