Recently I saw a great post on Extreme Tech about the upcoming Windows 10 release and, to put it in my own words, the heart of the problem with both Windows 8.x and Windows 10.  Well, one of the problems with the great “Desktop/Tablet Convergence” that Microsoft has been trying to foist on all of us […]

Tweet Having heard so much about APL from Phil Trelford (who is one of the leaders in the F# community) I decided to try it out too. For the uninitiated, APL code looks every bit as mind-bending and unbelievable as scenes from Johnny Depp’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. For example, the life function

We are thrilled to announce the availability of WebSharper 3.2, paving the road to further upcoming enhancements to streamline developing and deploying WebSharper apps, and also shipping several key changes summarized here.

Tweet This talk by Kyle Kingsbury (aka @aphyr on twitter) was my favourite at CraftConf, and gave us an update on the state of consistency with MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Aerospike.   Kyle opened the talk by talking about how we so often build applications on top of databases, queues, streams, etc. and that these systems

Tweet This talk by Richard Rodger (of nearForm) was my favourite at this year’s CodeMotion conference in Rome, where he talked about why we need to change the way we think about monitoring when it comes to measuring micro-services.   TL; DR Identify invariants in your system and use them to measure the health of