performance
The norm for rate limiting these days seems to be based on the number of requests a consumer can make in a given time window. The problem with this is that all requests are not equal. Some requests are more expensive than other requests and should be treated as such.
randoms
Previously [https://www.johnnunemaker.com/monday-randoms-2015-11-02/]. Quotes > The true purpose of testing, just like the true purpose of design, is to reduce costs. Sandi Metz in Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby. Motivational Want to Create Things That Matter? Be Lazy. [http://99u.com/articles/52345/want-to-create-things-that-matter-be-lazy] Love the splitting
randoms
Previously [https://www.johnnunemaker.com/wednesday-randoms-2015-09-30/]. Resiliency Resiliency checklist [http://monkey.org/~marius/checklist.pdf] A fantastic checklist broken up into 4 categories: fault tolerance, scalability, operability and efficiency. > What happens when a dependency starts failing? What if it begins failing slowly? How can the system shed load? What
randoms
Previously [https://www.johnnunemaker.com/saturday-randoms-2015-09-19/]. Data Building DistributedLog: Twitter’s high-performance replicated log service [https://blog.twitter.com/2015/building-distributedlog-twitter-s-high-performance-replicated-log-service] How Twitter build a distributed log on top of Apache BookKeeper [http://bookkeeper.apache.org]. Great post on the features they required and the results. > In this section
programming
I enjoy reading papers and try to on a regular basis. I actually read them old school style. I print them and then use a pen to underline the quoteables that I liked. Sometimes I annotate them with thoughts, and rarely, I have even put a grade at the top,
randoms
I read a lot. I curate what I read into likes in instapaper [https://instapaper.com] and bookmarks in pinboard [https://pinboard.in]. It hit me the other day, as I was reading one of the many email newsletters I subscribe to for dev tips, that there is value in
flipper
Nearly three years ago, I started work on Flipper. Even though there were other feature flipping libraries out there at the time, most notably rollout, I decided to whip up my own. Repeating others is, after all, one of the better ways to level up your game.
speaking
Last night at Local Variables [http://www.meetup.com/localvariables/events/219176565/] I presented on Atom [http://atom.io], GitHub’s relatively new text editor. I did an overview followed by a short demo. It has been a few years since I’ve done a talk, so it was good
programming
In May of 2013, my hand pain was so intense I took nearly a month off work. When I started back at work and almost immediately felt pain again, I knew the issue was not rest, but habits. I spent the next eight months reading a ton about posture, muscles,
performance
In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post. Hopefully future topics will be more focused and frequent. For the past year, I have been working on data and analytics
thoughts
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Person #1 Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start.