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First Class Support for Docker: Better Service, More Legroom
Thanks to Richard Moross for the base image CC BY 2.0 Overview “Docker, please visit the front desk to receive…
#EastBayGo: Pareto Efficiencies and AOP with GoWeave
Special thanks to James Daisa for the base image! CC BY 2.0 The other night we headed over to the TurnItIn…
#SFRails: Scaling ElasticSearch + Advanced Ruby Tricks
Last night a near 100 folks showed up at Hotel Tonight’s swank downtown offices to get nerdy about Rails. There’s…
#GoSF: Identity, Safe Secrets, and IoT Friendly Languages
The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. CC BY 3.0 US Last night’s meetup, which was hosted by Betable,…
Why Iron.io Joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation
As of today, Iron.io formally joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the community behind the rapidly growing open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).…
Message Queues & Workers: the Heart of Modern Infrastructure
Thanks to Sonny Abesamis for the base image! CC BY 2.0 Increasingly, message queues and workers are intertwined with the…
Helpful hints: Pre-commit
I had a lot of fun sharing pre-commit with everyone earlier this week. In case you missed it, here’s a link.…
Polyglot microservices need pre-commit + git
Microservices are great! Or, at least that’s what the internet keeps telling me. There are a lot of upsides,…
Favorites from GitHub Universe
Remember when enterprise shied away from Open Source software? I sure do. The times they aren’t a changin’. Led to…
FAQ Series: What is an overlord-minion architecture?
What do you do when even batch processing can’t save you? Yaron suggests giving the overlord-minion pattern a try. The…
Notes from Gotham Go
Last week, I had the pleasure of joining gophers at Gotham Go. It was a incredibly dense single day of…
Learning from Facebook’s Outage
Thanks to Kārlis Dambrāns for providing the base image. CC BY 2.0 Facebook’s suffered three outages this month; two of…