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Software Development
Structural simplicity
You’ve all seen Rich Hickey’s excellent Simple-made-easy presentation, in which Mr Hickey trawls the dictionary to remind us that, “Simple,”…
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Software Development
Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals
This is the third in a series of Postgres posts that Pat Shaughnessy wrote based on his presentation at the…
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DevOps
Setting up your own VPC with AWS
When you are using AWS resources like EC2 instances they will be assigned to a default VPC. However, by using…
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Software Development
Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)
In this post I’ll mention RDD paper, Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing. If you didn’t check…
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Ceylon
Constructors in Ceylon
Since the earliest versions of Ceylon, we’ve supported a streamlined syntax for class initialization where the parameters of a class…
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DevOps
Docker 1.7.0, Docker Machine 0.3.0, Docker Compose 1.3.0, Docker Swarm 0.3.0
Docker 1.7.0 is released (change log) and so time to update Docker Hosts, CLI, and other tools. Docker 1.7.0 Docker Host is…
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Software Development
R: Scraping Neo4j release dates with rvest
As part of my log analysis I wanted to get the Neo4j release dates which are accessible from the release…
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Enterprise Java
How to monitor a Java EE DataSource
Introduction FlexyPool is an open-source framework that can monitor a DataSource connection usage. This tool come out of necessity, since…
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Core Java
Motivation And Goals Of Project Jigsaw
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Project Jigsaw may break existing code. So what do we get…
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