Multipolygon

18 May #bookmarks #dev

JSON Feed: Announcing JSON Feed
https://jsonfeed.org/2017/05/17/announcing_json_feed
29 April #bookmarks #dev

Postgres tips for Rails developers
Citus Cloud offers a managed database-as-a-service for easy horizontal scaling of postgres.
21 April #bookmarks

Introducing Token – The Token Blog
Today we’re announcing the developer preview of Token.
18 April #books

Babylon's Ashes (2016) by James S. A. Corey
14 April #bookmarks

Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm
14 April #oculus #vr

Oculus Mission:ISS Wow! Gliding around inside the virtual ISS was one of the best experiences so far
10 April #bookmarks

Textbook manifesto – Green Tea Press
http://greenteapress.com/wp/textbook-manifesto/
10 April #books

Nemesis Games (2015) by James S. A. Corey
06 April #bookmarks #dev

André Staltz - An off-grid social network
User Interface Programmer
01 April #books

Cibola Burn (2014) by James S. A. Corey
30 March #bookmarks #dev

Scaling your API with rate limiters
Availability and reliability are paramount for all web applications and APIs. If you’re providing an API, chances are you’ve already experienced sudden increases in traffic that affect the quality of your service, potentially even leading to a service outage for all your users. The first few times this happens, it’s reasonable to just add more capacity to your infrastructure to accommodate user growth. However, when you’re running a production API, not only do you have to make it robust with techniques like idempotency, you also need to build for scale and ensure that one bad actor can’t accidentally or deliberately affect its availability.
30 March #bookmarks #dev

bliki: MonolithFirst
Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building a monolithic system first. Split to microservices when, and if, you need it.
29 March #bookmarks #dev

Page not found · GitHub Pages
http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US
29 March #bookmarks #dev

Online migrations at scale
Engineering teams face a common challenge when building software: they eventually need to redesign the data models they use to support clean abstractions and more complex features. In production environments, this might mean migrating millions of active objects and refactoring thousands of lines of code. Stripe users expect availability and consistency from our API. This means that when we do migrations, we need to be extra careful: objects stored in our systems need to have accurate values, and Stripe’s services need to remain available at all times. In this post, we’ll explain how we safely did one large migration of our hundreds of millions of Subscriptions objects.
29 March #bookmarks #dev

Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency
Networks are unreliable. We’ve all experienced trouble connecting to Wi-Fi, or had a phone call drop on us abruptly. The networks connecting our servers are, on average, more reliable than consumer-level last miles like cellular or home ISPs, but given enough information moving across the wire, they’re still going to fail in exotic ways. Outages, routing problems, and other intermittent failures may be statistically unusual on the whole, but still bound to be happening all the time at some ambient background rate. To overcome this sort of inherently unreliable environment, it’s important to design APIs and clients that will be robust in the event of failure, and will predictably bring a complex integration to a consistent state despite them. Let’s take a look at a few ways to do that.
25 March #books

Abaddon's Gate (2013) by James S. A. Corey
25 March #books

Caliban's War (2012) by James S. A. Corey
24 March #bookmarks #dev #rails

Hype Driven Development
Not Found – Medium
https://blog.daftcode.pl/hype-driven-development-3469fc2e9b22#.jjkkl2qde
20 March #bookmarks #dev

Choose Boring Technology
http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
20 March #bookmarks #dev

Ship Small Diffs
Not Found – Medium
https://blog.skyliner.io/ship-small-diffs-741308bec0d1#.4drqigsre
20 March #bookmarks #dev

Social Web Working Group
Socialwg - W3C Wiki
https://www.w3.org/Social/WG
19 March #bookmarks #dev #rails

reillybeacom/telegram-bot-microblog
telegram-bot-microblog - Just a quick weekend project to use a Telegram Bot as a chat-interface for a simple Rails 5 microblogging web site.
19 March #bookmarks #dev

Telegram Bot API
The Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram. To learn how to create..
19 March #books

Leviathan Wakes (2011) by James S. A. Corey The first book in the Expanse series recently made in to a TV show by Netflix. Very enjoyable, like what Firefly could have been, but as a book.