January 2011
3 posts
Reading about How Facebook Pushes Code
I was just reading this article found on Hacker News about the development process at facebook.
The line I liked the most was:
most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code. it’s just that they don’t have an incentive to do so at most companies. when there’s a QA department, it’s easy to just throw it over to them to find the errors.
I think this ties back to another point, that...
Messaging in Java
At my current employeer, we’re starting to reach the point where we need a messaging infrastructure to scale our product. The traditional Java approach is to use a JMS broker, such as ActiveMQ. However, there’s a new alternative API in the form of AMQP. Our first use-case is a fan-out queue and I took the opportunity to see how the solution would look using both API’s within...
Going Cable TV Free
The title of the post is just a little mis-leading. We’re not going cable free, we’ve been so for more than 3 years. I just felt compelled to write this post now because I finally have a setup that I like and is easy to use.
The first thing to know about going cable free is that it’s probably going to take a while to break even on cost. If you get a bundle, the cable bill is...