Software Development
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Going multi DC with Cassandra : what is the pattern of your cluster ?
I’ve been working at Chronopost, the French leader of express shipping, for most my carrier. In 2013, fed up with…
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We did it wrong, but not all was in vain
Yes, there was over engineering. Loads of it. Back in the mid 90s, when I started my career as a…
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Quantified Self Meets IDE: A Year of Data
More than a year ago, I started tracking exactly what code I was working on using WakaTime. As I’ve moved…
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Recognizing hand-written shapes programmatically: find the key points of a rectangle
A far-fetched goal I have is using sketching on a whiteboard as a way to define programs. I mean formal…
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Quick Access to Eclipse IDE Features
As Lars points out on the ide-dev mailing list, a lot of Eclipse IDE users aren’t aware of some very handy…
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Encryption is not Binary
If you ask someone if they require encryption on their device, first of all, you will likely get one of…
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Let it crash
“Let it crash” is a watchword in the Erlang world that has a pretty specific meaning in that context, but…
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First for test, second for implementation!
Test-Driven Development is a great technique, isn’t it? Today I want to propose you an experiment that may help you…
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SASI Empowering Secondary Indexes
Back in 2010, a new feature was introduced for Cassandra 0.7: Secondary Indexes. Unlike a relational database index, it is…
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