Replying to @kstewart
Good luck storming the castle.
Twitter helping to close the batch/streaming programming gap: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/streaming-mapreduce-with-summingbird
RE Zookeeper: “No, don’t touch it, don’t even look at it!” (from @mcavage’s https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/mark.cavage/public/surge2013_manta_final.key)
Great preso by @postwait on the Methodology of Monitoring: http://www.slideshare.net/postwait/monitoring-and-observability-23201316. Start by asking the right questions.
Replying to @dshaw
I prefer to call ours the maxivehicle. It’s all about setting expectations.
Rich Hickey: “Design is about making decisions” (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Composition-Performance) #UnboundedConfigurationIsAntiPattern
Must attend #strangeloop conference next year.
REST·i·pe (/ˈrestəˌpē/): A series of requests issued against a REST-ful service to make a state transition.
Keep thinking that I should find a use for CRDTs: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=153540
RT @disnet: adt.js (algebraic data types for JavaScript) looks really cool! (and uses sweet.js macros) https://github.com/natefaubion/adt.js