Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing | Enterprise | WIRED
On Tuesday Google will offer tools that can accommodate Docker containers on the company’s cloud service, Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine, and it will release additional software that can juggle containers across all sorts of outside services and machines as well.
Hasnain says:
"So many others are saying the same thing. But they’re not Eric Brewer."
Posted on 2014-06-10T01:49:01+0000
....without needing to remove the GIL at all. Presentation I gave at PyData NYC 2013. Video of...
PyParallel: How we removed the GIL and exploited all cores
Hasnain says:
This is really interesting (and enlightening with regards to the great windows async APIs)
Posted on 2014-06-08T03:57:50+0000
mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2014-06-06: Secrets of dispatch_once
Reader Paul Kim pointed out an entry on Michael Tsai's blog about making dispatch_once fast. While the comment in the dispatch_once source code is fascinating and informative, it doesn't quite delve into the detail that some would like to see. Since this is one of my favorite hacks, for today's arti…
Hasnain says:
This is really cool and really detailed. Hardware for the win.
Posted on 2014-06-07T01:50:32+0000
Sensemaking: The Most Important Tech Job That Doesn't Actually Exist
Yesterday I asked a prominent VC a question: "Why is it that, despite the fact that so many successful startup ideas come from academic research, on the investment side there doesn't seem to be anyone vetting companies on the basis...
Python to OCaml: retrospective - Thomas Leonard's blog
29,215 lines of Python to OCaml (learning OCaml along the way). command (325 lines of OCaml) and uses Lwt rather than its own asynchronous framework (483 lines of Python).
Hasnain says:
Long and great writeup. The series of linked articles is well worth reading as well.
Posted on 2014-06-06T17:57:03+0000
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I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million. Here’s How I Did It.
I sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time. Selling the company, Perfect Audience, to Marin Software took six months of writing carefully worded emails, meeting secretly in cafés, and pacing around the streets of San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood after dark. In t…
Hasnain says:
"t was agreed that after weeks of due diligence, the seemingly 14,213 closing conditions had finally been met. Marin’s lawyers declared the deal “closed,” everyone dropped off the conference call, and my company officially belonged to someone else."
Posted on 2014-06-06T17:13:28+0000
Women 'Complain A Lot, Interrupt,' Developer Says At Conference
At a tech conference in Berlin, a developer compared a software plug-in framework to his girlfriend, saying she "complains, interrupts" and "doesn't play well with others."
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Hasnain says:
This is an amazing writeup on business / marketing / lean software. Worth reading by everyone.
Posted on 2014-06-06T06:01:27+0000