Finished http://pragprog.com/book/pb7con/seven-concurrency-models-in-seven-weeks - balanced tour of increasingly less niche concurrency models & stacks.
“your monitoring system has to be more dependable than the thing it’s monitoring” http://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-makers-adrian-cockcroft-on-sun-netflix-clojure-go-docker-and-more/
RT @jabley: “If adopting DevOps doesn’t involve a re-org, then you’re not doing it right” @adrianco getting it right http://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-makers-adrian-cockcroft-on-sun-netflix-clojure-go-docker-and-more/
Using Calca (http://calca.io/) for picture hanging nail holes. Calculate once, nail once.
Great discussion on team building, diversity, and fostering growth: http://www.imore.com/vector-52-team-building-don-melton
RT @jessitron: Your systems will break. When they do, a computer should tell you, not a person.
@brianrue #distill14
RT @kellan: “software is research” http://neilk.net/blog/2014/08/09/a-map-that-is-just-good-enough/
RT @neil_conway: A database is a materialized view of a write-ahead log.
RT @kellabyte: Do not skimp on ops tooling. Shit’s going on in your system and you NEED to know.
RT @JohnDCook: Programmer time in on the order of 1000x more costly than CPU time. http://ow.ly/ApNU0
The Ship Show has been having excellent conversations, including http://theshipshow.com/2014/08/the-epistemology-of-devops/
RT @kstewart: Extract: Adobe’s Project Parfait Officially Added to Creative Cloud | RealEyes Media http://www.realeyes.com/blog/2014/08/21/extract-adobes-project-parfait-officially-added-to-creative-cloud/ via @instapaper
RT @jessitron: Graceful degradation: it’s not whether you fail, it’s how you fail.
Replying to @kstewart
Susan’s reply to photos: “we need to go to there.”
Testing Idempotence for Infrastructure as Code (http://dsg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/hummer/slides/toaster/#/). aka: The best Chefs can recreate their favorite dishes.