Coding Relic

Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco , Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talked about recent growth in the service and how iOS5 had cause...

Modern CPUs are astonishingly complex, with huge numbers of caches, lookaside buffers, and other features to optimize performance. Hardware ...

Tornado is an open source web server in Python. It was originally developed to power friendfeed.com , and excels at non-blocking operations...

Why use L2 networks in datacenters? Virtual machines need to move from one physical server to another, to balance load. To avoid disrupting...

Jean-Baptiste Queru recently wrote a brilliant essay titled Dizzying but invisible depth, a description of the sheer, unimaginable complex...

K&R C is the finest programming language book ever published. Its terseness is a hallmark of the work of Dennis Ritchie; it says exac...

In the last decade we have enjoyed a renaissance of programming language development. Clojure, Scala, Python, C#/F#/et al, Ruby (and Rails),...

Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to ...

Non Uniform Memory Access is common in modern x86 servers. RAM is connected to each CPU, which connect to each other. Any CPU can access an...

It is an interesting time to be involved in datacenter networking. There have been announcements recently of two competing proposals for run...

Many companies now include peer feedback as part of the annual review process. Each employee nominates several of their colleagues to write ...

This is the third and final article in a series about VXLAN . I recommend reading the first and second articles before this one. I have no...

This is the second of several articles about VXLAN . I have not been briefed by any of the companies involved, nor received any NDA informat...

This is the first of several articles about VXLAN . I have not been briefed by any of the companies involved, nor received any NDA informati...

Not quite two years ago in this space I wrote about how I use foursquare . I've continued using the service since then, passing 1,000 ch...