Apple's HomeKit will bring smart home control to iOS 8

Macworld

iOS 8 is coming for your house. One of the many new developer tools Apple unveiled Monday at the Worldwide Developer Conference is HomeKit, a new suite of tools that will let the makers of smart home products integrate their wares more deeply into Apple’s…

2 June 2014

High Availability with MySQL Fabric: Part II

MySQL Performance Blog

This is the third post in our MySQL Fabric series. If you missed the previous two, we started with an overall introduction, and then a discussion of MySQL Fabric’s high-availability (HA) features. MySQL Fabric was RC when we started this series, but it…

30 May 2014

Experiments at Airbnb

Hacker News

Airbnb is an online two-sided marketplace that matches people who rent out their homes (‘hosts’) with people who are looking for a place to stay (‘guests’). We use controlled experiments to learn and make decisions at every step of product development,…

28 May 2014

A Better Approach to A/B Test Analysis

Hacker News

We’ve made some radical changes to the math behind our open-source A/B testing library, Confidence.js. We want to bring you up to speed on how it works. When we originally wrote Confidence.js, we took a very traditional approach. We looked to the…

28 May 2014

How to become a millionaire web developer

Hacker News

I have come up with a strategy to become a millionaire web developer. Spoiler alert - you don’t have to be a web developer for this to work! This post might seem like a massive brag but that’s not my intention - it’s to look at a solution to what…

26 May 2014

Writing a File System in Linux Kernel

Hacker News

There are no complex or difficult concepts in this article, all required is a basic knowledge of the command line, the C language, Makefile and a general understanding about file systems. In this article I am going to describe the components necessary for…

26 May 2014