Bloated Rabbit – Part 1
Can a rabbit with a 128Gb stomach swallow 128Gb of carrots? I’m working with a client at the moment, and they seem to be finding that no, it can’t. I want to figure out why not, so I’m going to have to...
View ArticleECMAScript 6
Recent projects got me dealing with JavaScript and this got me thinking about the language. You know, The Bad Parts. The damage has been done and there is no simple way to backpedal out of it. But hey,...
View ArticleThe end-to-end principle and RabbitMQ queue mirroring
One of the foundations of the internet is the end-to-end principle as described by Saltzer, J. H., D. P. Reed, and D. D. Clark (1981) in End-to-End Arguments in System Design. This pretty much says...
View ArticleRaspberry Chef
Last month I wrote about temperature monitoring, and how I ended up using Raspberry Pi’s. I’m still fiddling around with their configuration, and I ran into a few problems. For starters, if I brought...
View ArticleRules-based Network programming with Mio and Rust
One thing that you notice after spending most of your time looking at the insides of a program, is that it’s very easy to get bogged down in implementation detail, and end up with rather an optimistic...
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RabbitMQ throughput: assigning blame
Recently I looked at the instrumentation API to see what I could figure out about allocation performance. Actually, there’s a bunch of information available via erlang:system_info:...
View Articlebbfy: BBCode in the Age of JavaScript
Some readers might remember BBCode, a dated HTML-like syntax that enables users of forums to apply markup to their posts while minimising the danger of injecting malicious content into the whole...
View ArticleTeaching Emacs Who You Are
To some people like me, GNU Emacs is more than just the most powerful text editing system in the world. We don’t just write prose and code in Emacs, we read and send our mail from Emacs, we browse the...
View ArticleMessaging, partition and consistency
‘Why is this so hard?’ is a recurring theme of my RabbitMQ consulting at the moment. If a database gets a split brain, I just ask it to reconcile, and it mostly works. Why can’t RabbitMQ do that? Here...
View ArticleYet Another Jukebox
LShift has for a significant part of it’s history (at least 9 years, according to the blog post in 2006 about an earlier version) had an in-office jukebox. When I arrived here to begin with in 2010,...
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