Crouching Supervisor, Hidden File Descriptor Setting

Here’s an interesting problem our team faced last month that was extremely infuriating. We were in the process of launching…

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Immutable Servers With Packer and Puppet

Lately I’ve been becoming more and more of a fan of is the concept of Immutable Servers while automating our…

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RabbitMQ: Scheduled Message Delivery

Earlier this month I gave a presentation at ComoRichWeb on RabbitMQ and one question from an attendee was “Is it…

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A Tale of Two Cultures: Hackers and Enterprise Developers

Today I found myself thinking again of what I see as two distinct cultures in the development world: Hackers and…

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Streaming Files from MongoDB GridFS

Not too long ago I tweeted what I felt was a small triumph on my latest project, streaming files from…

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Big Company vs. Small Company

The other day I was having lunch with a friend of mine who works for a medium sized company (by…

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Spring 3.1 Cache Abstraction Tutorial

One of the new features introduced in the forthcoming Spring 3.1 version is the one of cache abstraction. Spring Framework…

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