RT @headinthebox: If you don’t feel stupid, you are not learning fast enough.
Outstanding preso by @jboner on the distributed system underpinnings of Akka: http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/the-road-to-akka-cluster-and-beyond. Great biblio of seminal papers.
Netflix crosses off another date from their OSS Advent Calendar: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/announcing-suro-backbone-of-netflixs.html. Suro => Events + SEDA.
RT @postwait: #bigdata & #monitoring are going to collide a fiery maelstrom that will immolate most monitoring vendors. #sosorry love, @cir…
Finally read @aphyr’s Jespen (http://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen ) - excellent discussion of CAP failures and consequences. CRDTs FTW!
RT @verge: You can now stream Led Zeppelin’s music on Spotify http://vrge.co/JesfHp
Interesting conversation on restoring the Project Manager role: http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/12/17/maggie-litton-cognicast-episode-046
Excellent post by Jay Kreps on the Power of the Log: http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
Replying to @kstewart
I didn’t know you could give Envy as a holiday gift.