OpenGear Networks
Friday, 08 January 2016
Interesting Snippets from 2016-01-08
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On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture
Bitcoin was a great demonstration of what is possible. But as the entire Bitcoin ecosystem approaches a gross payment volume size nearing that of single top 10 US retailer (and about 1/10,000th the transaction volume of VISA), the “publish all transactions to everybody” approach Bitcoin uses is starting to show its limits.
Interesting Snippets from 2016-01-05
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QMiner
QMiner is a data analytics platform for processing large-scale real-time streams containing structured and unstructured data.
Interesting Snippets from 2016-01-04
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From the Ground Up: Reasoning About Distributed Systems in the Real World – Brave New Geek
Distributed systems literature is abundant, but as a practitioner, I often find it difficult to know where to start or how to synthesize this knowledge without a more formal background. This is a non-academic’s attempt to provide a line of thought for rationalizing design decisions. This piece doesn’t necessarily contribute any new ideas but rather tries to provide a holistic framework by studying some influential existing ones.
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The Website Obesity Crisis
Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps. This talk isn't about any of those. It's about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year.
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Split.js
Split.js is a lightweight, unopinionated utility for creating adjustable split views or panes.
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A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial) - JavaScript | MDN
Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript is notorious for being the world's most misunderstood programming language. It is often derided as being a toy but, beneath its layer of deceptive simplicity, powerful language features await.