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Author Archives: niemeyer
Bazaar, the git way
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
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Good concurrency changes the game
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
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Launchpad + Rietveld == HappyCodeReviews
In the past week, I’ve finally stopped to fix something that I’ve been wishing for years: inline code reviews in Launchpad. Well, I haven’t exactly managed fix it in Launchpad, but the integration with Rietveld feels nice enough to be … Continue reading
Posted in Go, Patch, Project, RCS
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Death of goroutines under control
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
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The Rubber Boots
(originally posted on G+) Yesterday I was just reading Armin Rigo’s post related to having Software Transactional Memory in PyPy. If you haven’t heard of Armin before, I’ll just set the context by telling you that he’s one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Python
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Ensemble, Go, and MongoDB at Canonical
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
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The job market for Go
I know there’s a lot of curiosity regarding Go’s growth and usage, and some people often ponder about whether they should invest on it since they don’t see hundreds of jobs in public sites, so would like to point something … Continue reading
Cut the rope, a tablet is NOT a laptop
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
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Efficient algorithm for expanding circular buffers
Circular buffers are based on an algorithm well known by any developer who’s got past the “Hello world!” days. They offer a number of key characteristics with wide applicability such as constant and efficient memory use, efficient FIFO semantics, etc. … Continue reading
Vector clock support for Go
One more Go library oriented towards building distributed systems hot off the presses: govclock. This one offers full vector clock support for the Go language. Vector clocks allow recording and analyzing the inherent partial ordering of events in a distributed … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Go, Project, Snippet
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