Category Archives: Design

Bazaar, the git way

Posted on 2012-01-16 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Back at the Ubuntu Platform Rally last week, I’ve pestered some of the Bazaar team with questions about co-location of branches in the same directory with Bazaar. The great news is that this seems to be really coming for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference, Design, Go, Project, Python, RCS | 8 Comments

Good concurrency changes the game

Posted on 2011-12-12 by Gustavo Niemeyer

A long time before I seriously got into using distributed version control systems (DVCS) such as Bazaar and Git for developing software, it was already well known to me how the mechanics of these systems worked, and why people benefited … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Design, Go, Project, Snippet | 4 Comments

Death of goroutines under control

Posted on 2011-10-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Certainly one of the reasons why many people are attracted to the Go language is its first-class concurrency aspects. Features like communication channels, lightweight processes (goroutines), and proper scheduling of these are not only native to the language but are … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Design, Erlang, Go, Project, Snippet, Test | 5 Comments

Ensemble, Go, and MongoDB at Canonical

Posted on 2011-08-05 by Gustavo Niemeyer

About 1 year after development started in Ensemble, today the stars finally aligned just the right way (review queue mostly empty, no other pressing needs, etc) for me to start writing the specification about the repository system we’ve been jointly … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, C/C++, Cloud, Design, Go, PostgreSQL, Project, Python | 7 Comments

Cut the rope, a tablet is NOT a laptop

Posted on 2011-07-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Back in 2009 I quickly talked about the obvious revolution in computing that was rolling in the form of mobile phone as computer, and mentioned as well the fact that touch-based interfaces were going to dominate the marketplace because of … Continue reading →

Posted in Article, Design, Mobile, Puzzle | 2 Comments