This is some useful inisights I've gained, that are worth noting. The code examples are from a gist clone that I'm playing around with, it's easier to have a "known" problem and target to experiment with software than trying to do both at the same time. React What's clear is that with appropriate use of …

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These are really cliff notes for the next person, but quite useful. Was working with Spark in a local Docker using the very useful jupyter/docker-stacks, these are really nice to get a fully working Spark installation on your Mac without messing with lots of packages on your local machine. I’m now a big convert of …

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If you ever looked at my github – public or private you can see that I have settled on a personal template for Angular applications. While I’m sure that there are things that are against some blog post of conventions, it works and gets lots of jobs done. After digging into the performance of our SPA at Tubular I found …

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One of the great challenges in software engineering is that you don’t know what the problem is until you’ve worked through it one. Sometimes this is the idea that you need to top down design a program which is a great start, but what’s interesting is when it comes to the language itself and what it makes easy and hard. …

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Like many pieces of code, there is always a story behind it. Your FizzBuzz solutions of the day – using operator precedence to get a result 1for num in xrange(1,101): 2 print 'Fizz' if not num % 3 else '' + 'Buzz' if not num % 5 else '' or num Or on one line. 1print …

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I do like delight, I really do. I was wondering last night about why saved searches have sucked for so long. Got thinking about some slides I’m putting together about quality. Part of it is that “move fast and break things” is counter productive to where we need to be, we need to move fast, but letting people …

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This post really documents the checkpoint in my experiments with GoLang and Frontend development. As some people might know that I’ve been playing around with application structure, languages and approaches for a while. My GoLang AngularJS and ES6 Todo App over at GitHub – it’s the reference for the rest of this post. …

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Was at a wonderful conference hosted by one of Tubular’s investors (FirstMark) where VPE’s, CTOs and key technical leads got together from a bunch of their investments to listen to speakers and have some good round table discussions. I spent my time participating in a round table on development processes, which evolved …

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Some principles that should be followed when designing micro services. Accuracy – Fail hard or show full accurate results, never in between. Our goal is to provide precise numbers customers trust. Sending incomplete numbers because our systems aren’t healthy can’t be an excuse, we should follow the rule of “all or …

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Yesterday’s post where I figured out what it took to build thrift interfaces to attach to Cloudera Impala got a big improvement today. I combined my work with the hivething project that Derek Greentree wrote. It’s of course called impalathing over on github, it really does clean up the API. The big thing is that since …

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