February 2011
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“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”
– Linus Torvalds
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned,... →
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Mongrel2, a short introduction
Please take a look at those slides. They’ll give you the gist of Mongrel2’s design and I’ll elaborate on them below. Notice that the slides start by speaking about Mongrel, which is Mongrel2’s predecessor. It is fundamentally different from Mongrel2, but it does share some things, like the HTTP parser, in common.
These slides are by Paolo Negri.
Some thoughts on...
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Tips from Gilt Groupe on optimizing iPhone apps →
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“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether...”
– Edsger W. Dijkstra
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MongrEvent at Hack and Tell
I will be speaking at Hack and Tell tomorrow night. I am presenting MongrEvent and discussing some thoughts on using a pipeline of coroutines for answering zeromq messages.
It’s currently focused on answering messages from Mongrel2, but I’m starting to think something bigger could be really neat. I even have a name ready.
The meetup starts at 6:30pm. See website for more info.
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WatchJason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work.
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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts... →
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MongrEvent
MongrEvent is a proof-of-concept for writing a Mongrel2 message handler in Python and splitting the processing into a pipeline of coroutines.
Mongrel2 is a web server by Zed Shaw. Mongrel2 handles everything having to do with HTTP and has facilities for passing request handling to external services using ZeroMQ. MongrEvent is an example of how that service could be written to use Eventlet for...
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“The hardest thing of all to find is a black cat in a dark room, especially if...”
– Confucious
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On managing subatomic particles.
I am starting my morning with a documentary about Fermi Lab called Atom Smashers, by PBS.
While describing the purpose of a particle accelerator, the narrator said something that stuck out. He said they smash two quarks, each made up of 6 main components. These quarks smash into each other and break apart into roughly 50-100 different pieces.
Now, for what stuck out: the scientists are using...
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Quora’s Technology Examined →
dhotson:
A look under the hood of Quora.
