It starts, as many stories do, with a question. On September 10th, AWS Serverless Hero Luc van Donkersgoed shared his observations on the relationship of reduced latency with increased request rate when…
Category: General
Container-to-Container Communication
In a containerized world, is there a material difference between communicating over local network TCP vs local Unix domain sockets?
A decade of writing this stuff? Seriously.
In tinkering with my blogging platform and playing with different technologies, I’ve just realized that I’ve been writing online for well over a decade now. It started a long time ago, when…
My foray into web development
I like browsing the web. I do it a lot throughout my day. A lot of people work hard at making the web a cool-looking place. Some sites make simplicity look so…
Spread your wings and fly…
Commercial flight is no longer something I look forward to. There was a time that I would get excited about traveling through the air, it was different, exotic, something reserved for special…
Time goes by, so slowly
I seem to be letting larger amounts of time slip by between posts, and that kind of makes me sad. Between having the ability to Tweet, Facebook status update and Google Buzz,…
Site was down
My site apparently got hacked about a month ago, thanks to me not keeping my site software up to date, and left a small vulnerability open, so something went wrong, and I…
Time goes where?
Sometimes it seems that after I’ve tried tackling my inbox (personal, not work!), I end up after a full day of emails, back and forth, writing a lot, and I’ve only cleared…
Climbing to the top
Today, some crazy Frenchman decided to climb the New York Times building. A more detailed story here. I was set to meet some improv pals at 39th and 8th Ave – one…
He’s back, and he’s bad.
It’s been a couple of weeks since I left for my visit home, and while I have to complete my full vacation post (and it’ll be a long one), suffice to say…