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Category Archives: Project
Gopher-powered backups
10gen, the company behind the MongoDB database, recently announced the availability of the MongoDB Backup Service. This is not a traditional backup service, though. Rather than simply sending scheduled snapshots of the data over to a remote system, the backup … Continue reading
Posted in Go, Java, MongoDB, Project
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jsonpeer puts the P in JSONP
Today ubuntufinder.com was updated with the latest image data for Ubuntu 13.04 and all the previous releases as well. Rather than simply hardcoding the values again, though, the JavaScript code was changed so that it imports the new JSON-based feeds … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Go, Project, Security, Uncategorized
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Porting 6700 lines of C to Go
A few years ago, when I started pondering about the possibility of porting juju to the Go language, one of the first pieces of the puzzle that were put in place was goyaml: a Go package to parse and serialize … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Article, C/C++, Design, Go, Project
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Introducing the Ubuntu Finder
A small and fun experiment is out:
Posted in Cloud, Design, Project
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Multi-doc transactions for MongoDB
I’m glad to announce experimental support for multi-document transactions in the mgo driver that integrates MongoDB with the Go language. The support is done via a driver extension, so it works with any MongoDB release supported by the driver (>= … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Article, Design, Go, MongoDB, Project, Test
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The Easter mgo release
It wasn’t just the bunny that was active over the holidays. The r2012.04.08 release of the mgo MongoDB driver for Go has just been tagged. This release is supposed to be entirely compatible with the last release, and there are … Continue reading
Posted in Go, MongoDB, Project
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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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