How 500px serves up 500TB of high res photos

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By Paul Liu, DevOps Developer, at 500px. You can find him here on StackShare and on Twitter 500px is an online community for premium photography. Millions of users all over the world share, discover, sell and buy the most beautiful images. We value…

15 May 2015

A Tmux crash course: tips and tweaks

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If you are one of those devs who uses the terminal a lot and ends up with way too many tabs open, or practices pair programming, then this post is for you. During the last months, I’ve started using Tmux a lot. Since I’ve found it to be very useful, I…

14 May 2015

The Failure of Agile

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I am proud to be one of the 17 founders/authors of the The Agile Manifesto back in 2001. I think it provided a jolt of energy, hope of a better way of doing things, of creating software and making the world work better. It was a pivotal turning point. But…

13 May 2015

Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat

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I try a lot of iOS apps and many offer chat features (especially social networking and dating apps). Almost all are unique in their own ways and nearly all of them are broken in one way or another, usually they’re either too slow (not real-time) or too…

13 May 2015

This drone follows you down the trail after you toss it up in the air

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Aerial footage is a nice way to capture those action sports endeavors, and it's even better if you can fit the gear in your backpack. Lily ticks those boxes, and all you have to do to launch it is toss it up in the air. Once airborne, the camera UAV ...

13 May 2015

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

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an interesting/influential/important paper from the world of CS every weekday morning, as selected by Adrian Colyer Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg – Verma et al. 2015 Borg has been running all of Google’s workloads for the last ten…

7 May 2015

Kubernetes is going to support rkt

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For many, Docker is the next big thing in cloud computing. But some big names—most notably Google—are now backing an alternative to this enormously influential technology. In December, one of Docker's earliest supporters, the Silicon Valley startup…

4 May 2015