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• An Awful Introduction to Make23 Feb 20

  learning

• Action-Specific Plug Pipelines for Phoenix13 Feb 20

  elixir

• Migrating to CockroachDB5 Feb 20

  learning

• Using Messages In Elixir To Avoid Polling30 Jan 20

  design

• Consistent Database and Message Queue Writes22 Jan 20

  design

• Elixir: Which Modules Are Using My Module24 Jun 18

  elixir

• The Benefits of Pair Programming15 Mar 18

  learning

• Test Private Functions and Implementation Details2 Jan 18

  testing

• The Beauty of Elixir and Beam7 Nov 17

  elixir

• Elixir Tips and Tricks27 Oct 17

  elixir

• Testing Asynchronous Code in Elixir25 Sep 17

  elixir testing

• Learning Elixir's Supervisors16 Sep 17

  elixir design

• Elixir's Binary Matching Performance15 Aug 17

  elixir performance

• Learning Elixir's ETS - Part 222 Jul 17

  concurrency elixir

• Learning Elixir's ETS - Part 128 May 17

  concurrency elixir

• Learning Elixir's Agent28 Mar 17

  concurrency elixir

• Learning Elixir's GenServer - Part 223 Mar 17

  concurrency elixir

• Learning Elixir's GenServer - Part 122 Mar 17

  concurrency elixir

• Dependency Injection in Elixir is a Beautiful Thing6 Jan 17

  design elixir testing

• Tests Are About Design11 Dec 16

  design testing

• Elixir's With Statement7 Nov 16

  elixir learning

• Concatenation in Elixir22 Sep 16

  elixir learning performance

• Pattern Matching in Elixir1 Aug 16

  design elixir learning

• Interfaces In Nim14 May 16

  design learning

• Software Craftsmanship: Testing10 Jan 16

  craftsmanship testing

• An Introduction To OpenResty - Part 34 Jan 16

  lua performance

• An Introduction To OpenResty - Part 2 - Concepts26 Dec 15

  lua performance

• An Introduction To OpenResty (nginx + lua) - Part 119 Dec 15

  lua performance

• RESTful routing in Go5 May 15

  golang

• Go actions responses2 May 15

  golang

• Go's error handling: good and bad23 Apr 15

  golang

• Project Organisation16 Apr 15

  misc

• Prematurely Blocking Producers in Go4 Apr 15

  concurrency golang

• Basic Micro-Optimizations Part 324 Mar 15

  performance

• Writing And Using C Code From Go20 Mar 15

  golang

• An efficient integer set19 Mar 15

  data structures golang performance

• Building A Queue - Part 418 Mar 15

  data structures golang learning

• Leaking Goroutines16 Mar 15

  golang

• Building A Queue - Part 312 Mar 15

  data structures golang learning

• Building A Queue - Part 211 Mar 15

  data structures learning

• Building A Queue - Part 110 Mar 15

  data structures learning

• Using Javascript Generators24 Feb 15

  node.js

• I'm Not Sold On High Availability12 Feb 15

  design

• Unordered Queues4 Feb 15

  design

• A decade of unit testing30 Jan 15

  testing

• Nearest Neighbour Over Small Areas13 Jan 15

  concurrency design performance

• Framework Agnostic Zero Downtime Deployment with NGINX6 Jan 15

  devops

• Introduction to PostgreSQL Arrays8 Dec 14

  modeling

• Basic Micro-Optimizations Part 228 Nov 14

  performance

• Basic Micro-Optimizations27 Nov 14

  performance

• Condition Variables3 Nov 14

  concurrency golang

• Buying Concurrency with Memory29 Oct 14

  concurrency golang performance

• Using Small Arrays Instead Of Small Dictionaries22 Oct 14

  data structures golang performance

• The Little Go Book21 Oct 14

  ebook golang

• Practical SOA / microservices - Hydration - Part 218 Oct 14

  design performance scalability soa

• How unreliable is UDP?16 Oct 14

  learning

• Practical SOA / microservices - Typed Requests10 Oct 14

  design performance soa

• Practical SOA / microservices - Hydration - Part 11 Oct 14

  design performance scalability soa

• Controlling Array Growth in Golang26 Aug 14

  golang

• Cancelling Long Promise Chains2 Jul 14

  learning

• Pools: So You Think You're Smarter Than Your GC12 Jun 14

  data structures learning

• Space Efficient Percentile Calculations7 Jun 14

  learning performance

• Understanding Pools28 Apr 14

  golang learning

• Understanding Javascript Promises26 Apr 14

  node.js

• Grow Up. Use Queues.5 Mar 14

  design scalability soa

• Client-Side vs. Server-Side Rendering Redux (Sorta)22 Feb 14

  design ui

• The Deceptive Nature Of Averages10 Feb 14

  learning

• Why Premature Optimizations Are Rarely A Waste Of Time13 Jan 14

  learning golang

• Fast Large Offsets With An Indexed Skiplist9 Dec 13

  data structures golang performance

• Building A Skiplist6 Dec 13

  data structures golang

• The Minimum You Need To Know About Arrays and Slices in Golang25 Nov 13

  golang

• Concurrent Reads with Serialized Writes20 Nov 13

  concurrency

• Filtering My Blog Posts By Tags12 Nov 13

  ui

• Building Technology Agnostic Globally Distributed Systems5 Nov 13

  design scalability soa

• Back To Basics: Hashtables Part 2 (And A Peek Inside Redis)2 Nov 13

  data structures golang redis

• Back To Basics: Hashtables31 Oct 13

  data structures golang

• High Concurrency LRU Caching19 Oct 13

  concurrency data structures go performance

• Growth Planning3 Oct 13

  design scalability

• "Dependency Injection" in Golang18 Sep 13

  golang testing

• Scaling? Focus On Raw Speed11 Sep 13

  design performance

• Own A System Beyond Its Childhood, Or Stay A Bad Programmer4 Sep 13

  learning

• SOA Lessons Learned27 Aug 13

  design soa

• On Sharing Infrastructure22 Aug 13

  devops

• Caching: Your Worst Best Friend25 Jul 13

  design devops performance

• Reading too much into String.Split17 Jul 13

  performance

• Golang Slices And The Case Of The Missing Memory10 Jul 13

  golang

• Your Buffer Is Leaking8 Jul 13

  data structures golang

• Shard Your Hash Table To Reduce Write Locks3 Jul 13

  concurrency golang performance

• Golang hot configuration reload1 Jul 13

  devops golang

• How Meaningful Do You Find Github's Punchcard?21 Jun 13

  tech

• Concurrent-Friendly Logging with Golang20 Jun 13

  concurrency devops golang logging

• Background Driven Development12 Jun 13

  design

• Why I Dislike EC24 Jun 13

  devops performance

• How Good Is Amazon's Route 53 Latency Based Routing?29 May 13

  devops performance

• Do More In-Process Caching23 May 13

  design golang performance

• Building Search13 May 13

  data structures redis

• Redis' slowlog and DEL's surprisingly bad performance10 May 13

  devops performance redis

• Lua's JSON turns empty arrays into empty hashes7 May 13

  lua

• Achieving 5ms Response Time3 May 13

  design performance

• Writing an LRU Cache2 May 13

  data structures golang performance

• Appendix C - Our Simple AutoComplete30 Apr 13

  data structures ebook node.js

• Appendix B - I Love Premature Optimizations30 Apr 13

  ebook learning performance

• Appendix A - Why Node?30 Apr 13

  ebook learning node.js

• Chapter 7 - Conclusion30 Apr 13

  ebook design soa

• Chapter 6 - Writes, Bloat and Queues30 Apr 13

  ebook design scalability soa

• Chapter 5 - Surprisingly Reusable30 Apr 13

  ebook design soa

• Chapter 4 - Tweaks30 Apr 13

  ebook design performance soa

• Chapter 3 - Holdbacks30 Apr 13

  ebook design redis soa

• Chapter 2 - The Core30 Apr 13

  ebook design redis soa

• Chapter 1 - Introduction30 Apr 13

  ebook design soa

• Scaling Viki30 Apr 13

  ebook design soa

• Introduction To Golang: Buffered Channels27 Apr 13

  concurrency golang

• An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong25 Apr 13

  data structures learning

• Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Golang11 Mar 13

  golang

• Testing In Golang10 Mar 13

  golang testing

• Getting an Images Type and Size in Golang (or any other language)10 Feb 13

  golang

• You can't rollback Redis transactions5 Feb 13

  redis

• Introduction To Golang: Channels (Again)20 Jan 13

  concurrency golang

• Introduction To Golang: Channels17 Jan 13

  concurrency golang

• Introduction To Golang: Arrays, Maps, Slices And Make14 Jan 13

  data structures golang

• Introduction To Golang: Interfaces10 Jan 13

  golang

• Introduction To Golang: Structures, Data and Instances7 Jan 13

  golang

• Custom Redis Command: Performance of C vs Lua24 Dec 12

  lua performance redis

• Writing a Custom Redis Command In C - Part 223 Dec 12

  c redis

• Writing a Custom Redis Command In C - Part 120 Dec 12

  c redis

• On Twitter21 Nov 12

  other

• No Shit Stylesheets12 Jul 12

  ui

• Data Modeling In Redis28 Jun 12

  modeling redis

• Three Must-Have Redis Configuration Options For Production27 Jun 12

  devops redis

• Node.js, Module.Exports and Organizing Express.js Routes26 Jun 12

  node.js

• Paging & Ranking With Large Offsets: MongoDB vs Redis vs PostgreSQL25 Jun 12

  modeling mongodb redis

• Why Are You Linking To 404s?18 Jun 12

  logging redis ruby

• What I Learned Building Mogade13 Jun 12

  learning

• Redis Is The Most Important Tool In My Toolbelt12 Jun 12

  redis

• Azure's Website Lacks Organization and Details11 Jun 12

  other

• The Little Introduction To Programming8 Jun 12

  ebook

• I Blog To Learn7 Jun 12

  learning writing

• Redis' Watch Command: Making Sure A Process Doesn't Run When Already Running5 Jun 12

  redis

• Minimalist Markup1 Jun 12

  performance ui

• Can You Make My Home Page Smaller?31 May 12

  performance ui

• Client-Side vs. Server-Side Rendering30 May 12

  design ui

• Bing, You Still Suck17 May 12

  other

• Ten Features I Like About CoffeeScript16 May 12

  node.js

• Mock Expectations in .NET vs Ruby14 May 12

  c# ruby testing

• Let's Increment i, Logic Gate Style7 May 12

  tech

• Let's Increment i, Assembly Style3 May 12

  tech

• Measuring Time Spent Between Steps In A Funnel1 May 12

  modeling mongodb

• How I'd Change Riak's Documentation28 Apr 12

  writing

• I Rather Have Silly Tests Than Silly Code24 Apr 12

  ruby testing

• Using MapReduce to Measure Funnels20 Apr 12

  modeling mongodb

• Arrays and Memory, Part 219 Apr 12

  c data structures

• Learning Is More Important Than Knowing18 Apr 12

  learning

• I'm a bad chef, but I still cook a lot18 Apr 12

  learning

• Piping Basics13 Apr 12

  devops

• Let's Talk About Logging11 Apr 12

  devops logging

• Living Without Paper Towels10 Apr 12

  other

• You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors4 Apr 12

  devops logging

• Is Kindle The Next RIM?2 Apr 12

  other

• Malloc and Free31 Mar 12

  c learning

• Why Arrays Normally Start At Zero30 Mar 12

  c data structures

• Recommending Distant Items27 Mar 12

  redis

• Let's Build Something Using Amazon's DynamoDB6 Feb 12

  tech

• Node.js, Require and Exports3 Feb 12

  node.js

• The Little Redis Book23 Jan 12

  ebook redis

• Refactoring Common API Functionality Into A Node.js Proxy17 Jan 12

  node.js

• Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions15 Jan 12

  node.js

• Reading from TCP streams12 Jan 12

  tech

• Does My Replica Set Need An Arbiter7 Jan 12

  devops mongodb

• I Just Don't Like Object Mappers18 Nov 11

  design

• Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes - Part 28 Nov 11

  redis

• Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes - Part 18 Nov 11

  redis

• Rethink Your Data7 Nov 11

  modeling mongodb performance

• CouchDB And MongoDB Performance28 Oct 11

  mongodb performance

• A MongoDB Guy Learns CouchDB27 Oct 11

  mongodb

• Hyperlinks don't belong in some of your documentation19 Oct 11

  writing

• Today I Played With RavenDB17 Oct 11

  tech

• Demystifying Write Durability16 Oct 11

  devops mongodb

• 8 Movies For Your Consideration16 Oct 11

  misc

• ObjectIds Are Predictable15 Oct 11

  mongodb

• Speeding Up Queries: Re-Imagining Your Data14 Oct 11

  modeling mongodb performance

• Why are there ads on your blog?14 Oct 11

  writing

• Speeding Up Queries: Understanding Query Plans12 Oct 11

  mongodb performance

• This Blog Is Now Hosted On Github11 Oct 11

  writing

• What's A Padding Factor?10 Oct 11

  devops mongodb

• Multiple Collections vs Embedded Documents10 Oct 11

  modeling mongodb

• The MongoDB Collection9 Oct 11

• MongoSpy, MongoWatch and Compressed Blobs23 Sep 11

  mongodb

• The Little Things Add Up17 Sep 11

  other

• How You Should Go About Learning NoSQL15 Aug 11

  learning

• Someone is selling my Foundations of Programming ebook on Amazon.com (and it isn't me)12 Aug 11

  ebook

• Yesterday I Quit My Job3 Aug 11

  other

• To Wendy25 Jul 11

• RoR Testing - One Thing To Do (I think) And One Thing Not To Do (I'm Sure)19 Jul 11

  testing

• Learning Golang By Benchmarking Set Implementations15 Jul 11

  data structures golang

• Error Handling In Asynchronous Code With Callbacks and Return Codes14 Jul 11

  c#

• The Only Thing I Think I Know About Proper CSS Usage6 Jul 11

  ui

• Rethink your Data Model5 Jul 11

  modeling redis

• MongoDB, OpenStreetMap and a Little Demo20 Jun 11

  mongodb

• Factories Make Testing Easier17 May 11

  testing

• Making our MongoDB Code Run Faster9 May 11

  mongodb performance

• Practical NoSQL - Solving a Real Problem with MongoDB and Redis8 May 11

  modeling mongodb performance redis

• Fighting the Framework4 May 11

  tech

• Dealing with Now and why I'm almost done with C# and Java3 May 11

  testing

• Automatically Processing Emails29 Apr 11

  ruby

• Planning Mogade v228 Apr 11

  other

• The Little MongoDB Book epub20 Apr 11

  ebook mongodb

• Algorithm Tutorials15 Apr 11

  data structures learning

• Video is a poor medium for learning to program12 Apr 11

  learning

• Markdown and Me5 Apr 11

  writing

• Why I'd Never Charge For A Tech Book31 Mar 11

  writing

• tracking hits with load.io, a sunday project29 Mar 11

  logging

• The Little MongoDB Book28 Mar 11

  ebook mongodb

• Stop Using Mocks23 Mar 11

  testing

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Appendix B - Advanced jQuery21 Mar 11

  ebook ui

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Appendix A - jQuery Basics16 Mar 11

  ebook ui

• Side Projects - Mongly14 Mar 11

  learning mongodb

• Why Apple is charging $0.99 For FaceTime For Mac24 Feb 11

  other

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Chapter 5 - Effective Testing23 Feb 11

  ebook testing

• Regular Expressions: Positive/Negative Look-Ahead/Behind16 Feb 11

  tech

• Validation: Hong Kong Doesn't Have Zip/Postal Codes15 Feb 11

  other

• Do Relational Database Vendors Care About Developers?10 Feb 11

  other

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Chapter 4 - Unit Testing31 Jan 11

  testing

• jQuery DateRange Picker25 Jan 11

  ui

• The Culture Novels24 Jan 11

  other

• Understanding Map Reduce20 Jan 11

  tech

• Rent Today, Own Tomorrow16 Jan 11

  other

• Foundations of Programming: Why Markdown? (And why not Word?)10 Jan 11

  learning

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Chapter 3 - IoC 1806 Jan 11

  ebook

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Chapter 2 - Yet Another IoC Introduction29 Dec 10

• Visual Studio's Most Unusable Features28 Dec 10

• Security: The Window Sticker is Your First Line of Defense21 Dec 10

• Foundations of Programming 2 - Chapter 1 - Quality and Efficiency20 Dec 10

• Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?15 Dec 10

  ui

• Foundations of Programming 2 Will Need Your Help13 Dec 10

• I Love Peanut Butter11 Dec 10

• Does Anyone Know What Silverlight Is?3 Dec 10

• How Optimized Are High Traffic Websites?16 Nov 10

  performance

• How to Test Against an External HTTP Dependency12 Nov 10

  c# testing

• mogade.com: a free platform for casual game developers9 Nov 10

• Silverlight : Stop Blaming Microsoft For Your Stupidity2 Nov 10

• An Introduction To Hosting26 Oct 10

  devops

• My Slow Transition Away From Mocks/20 Oct 10

  testing

• Weekend .NET Pains - Why I Prefer Ruby18 Oct 10

• Is Hong Kong Green?15 Oct 10

• Programmer Passion: An Enterprises Most Useful Yet Repressed Advantage7 Oct 10

• My Programming Sins - 2. Manually Managing References7 Oct 10

• Cost of Living in Hong Kong30 Sep 10

• Introducing jstub27 Sep 10

• Javascript Mocking - Damn, That's Easy.21 Sep 10

• My Programming Sins - 1. [Not] Testing Javascript20 Sep 10

• Sorry Google but my next phone will be an iPhone14 Sep 10

• My Kindle Review (I Like It)11 Sep 10

• My Movie Idea8 Sep 10

• A different (for me) way to page6 Sep 10

  modeling performance ui

• Stop calling the xbox / xbox 360 a success1 Sep 10

• How I would fix ASP.NET30 Aug 10

• Dune28 Aug 10

• My .NET ICache24 Aug 10

• HttpHandlerWrapper19 Aug 10

• Design Through Testability - An Example19 Aug 10

  design testing

• Write testable code even if you don't write tests17 Aug 10

  design testing

• A Snowball's Chance In Hell : IronRuby7 Aug 10

  other

• Hong Kong : Silly Things I've Noticed6 Aug 10

  other

• Hong Kong : First Impressions29 Jul 10

  other

• Microsoft's WebMatrix - Why You Aren't Going To Use It27 Jul 10

  tech

• Website Performance : Crossing the T's and dotting the I's22 Jul 10

  devops performance

• Using PostMark To Send Mail21 Jul 10

  tech

• noobgaming : my rails and gaming passions combined20 Jul 10

  tech

• Why 150 million copies of Windows 7 doesn't matter (to me)14 Jul 10

  other

• BizSpark: SubPrime of the Software Industry13 Jul 10

  tech

• Razor might be sharp, but is Microsoft?5 Jul 10

• Installing Nginx with Passenger on Linux (from source)1 Jul 10

  devops

• Is your Laundry Detergent Half Full or Half Empty?30 Jun 10

  other

• Learning Ruby : Class methods != Static Methods26 Jun 10

  ruby

• Learning Ruby : class << self25 Jun 10

  ruby

• Rails does Mail Right. ASP.NET, not so much.24 Jun 10

  ruby

• My Rails Journey - The Expected Speed Bumps23 Jun 10

  ruby

• Online places I spend my money21 Jun 10

  other

• I'm done hosting my own email17 Jun 10

  tech

• Goodbye Microsoft Office16 Jun 10

  writing

• Its time to start again13 Jun 10

  writing