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Server-side events a good choice for datacenter monitors 14 Aug 2013 | 05:49 am
“Three main choices for advanced communications in HTML5“, which I posted two months ago, excluded one obvious candidate for “advanced communications”: HTML5‘s server-sent events (SSE). To my surprise...
Three performance tips: measurements and techniques to pay off for the long haul 1 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
“Real User Monitoring” has probably convinced you by now that application performance is both important and inadequate; so what do you do about it? Accurate measurement and identification of a problem...
True scientific revolution: radical sharing 24 Jul 2013 | 07:47 pm
Ready for the future? “Warming Ocean Threatens Sea Life” is it. It’s not the climate change content of the article on which I’m focused at the moment; that’s a topic for another day. More singular, a...
PowerShell to the rescue! Tactical language with strategic impact 17 Jul 2013 | 01:36 am
Linux dominates cloud computing. While explanations for this abound–everything from licensing to operating-system design has been cited–the bare fact is uncontroversial. PowerShell, though, especially...
HTML5 vs native an important, but not obvious, choice 10 Jul 2013 | 01:31 am
Andrew McHugh is right to contrast the protagonists in his “Fight for the Future: HTML5 vs. Native Apps“. The details, though … about those, I’m less convinced. McHugh and I agree on several essentia...
Hail humble CGI: active Web pages for the working sysad 5 Jul 2013 | 07:55 pm
You’re monitoring a particular server for particular behavior–maybe patterns of filesystem usage, or the appearance in database server logs of specific faults, or cycles of CPU (central processing uni...
Three main choices for advanced communications in HTML5 14 Jun 2013 | 03:56 am
HTML5 provides an overwhelming variety of communication methods. Let’s map them out. By “overwhelming”, I don’t mean “poorly-designed” or “unusable”; I just mean that Web developers and network operat...
The true meaning of ‘declarative’ 6 Jun 2013 | 01:12 am
Last week’s advice that SQL (!) is a good language for working programmers to learn early in their careers spawned plenty of comment and follow-up. One aspect that deserves more explanation is my casu...
Your next computing language should be … 29 May 2013 | 06:23 am
“What language should I learn next?” is an exceedingly frequently-asked question among programmers, sysads, and devops. Any active online forum will entertain the subject eventually, and many return t...
Performance matters when writing, too: more SQL tips 22 May 2013 | 06:56 pm
SQL is a great domain for attention to performance, because it so often happens “in the wild” that a modestly altered coding boosts performance by an eye-popping factor. It’s exciting to accelerate a ...
