[Links of the Day] 25/06/2020 : Architecture decision record, Database stress test, Rust Network Function Framework

• Architecture decision record : Methods and tools for capturing software design choices that address a functional or non-functional requirement that is architecturally significant. [template]
• pstress : Perconna Database concurrency and crash recovery testing tool
• capsule : A framework for network function development. If you want to do fast packet process in a memory safe programing language (RUST) this is for you.

[Links of the Day] 31/12/2019 : C++ STL iterators for GO, Hotchips 2019 and Rust implementation of Graph based Nearest Neighbour search

• iter : Go implementation of C++ STL iterators and algorithms. I really need to look into C++ again. Been a really long time since I touched it.
• HotChips 2019 : All videos from talks at this year HotChips conference ( 31st of its kind!)
• Granne : Graph-based approximate nearest neighbour search in Rust, I really like Annoy from Spotify but this Rust implementation seems attractive enough that I will give it a spin. 

[Links of the Day] 18/10/2018 : Rust conf 2018 videos, Financial modeling for startups, Baidu RPC framework

• bprc : Baidu enterprise-grade RPC. If you look at the performance, this looks really impressive.  But, sadly most of the docs are in Chinese. I don't really know how committed to opensource and if Baidu is culturally attuned to run opensource community. But I think we need to keep a close look at all the recent opensource announcement from Chinese companies and see how they withstand the test of time. Last but not least, you might note that Chinese tends to prefer QQ over slack for discussion medium. 
• Financial Modeling for Startups : This is an interesting laying out the core element of financial startup modelling. This can be of great help for entrepreneurs out there that want to wrap their head around the difficult financials aspect of creating and running a company. 
• RustConf 2018 : video from Rust conf 2018

[Links of the Day] 16/10/2018 : Cryptographic Library by Google, Rust CVS toolkit, Riselab Fast K/V store

• Tink : cryptographic software library by Google offering a multi-language, cross-platform cryptographic solution. [Github]
• xsv : A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
• Anna: from the AMPlab now RiseLab which brought you the ramcloud project and tons of other goodies such as the raft consensus protocol, Spark or Mesos, comes Anna a fast KV store. This project is really interesting because the folks at RiseLab are really doing advance applied research. Their result are also impressive as well as business grounded. By example, the K/V store provides 8x the throughput of AWS ElastiCache’s and 355x the throughput of DynamoDB which is already impressive. But it is even more when you realised that the comparison is made for a fixed price point.

[Links of the day] 03/07/2018 : Information Theory introduction, Deep Reinforcement learning doesn't work (yet), Rust based Unikernel

• A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory : a Cool introduction to the concept. Nice and succinct. 
• Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet : There is a lot of buzzes around using machine learning for health care. In the UK the prime minister just announced a massive program to leverage AI to help the NHS tackle cancer and other ailments. However, as this paper suggest. We are a very long way from having a practical solution. And I feel that there is a little bit too much hype and with that fund diverted from solutions that will actually benefit the overstretched health care system now. I do not say that ML will not work, just that there is better spending than throwing IT stuff at it.
• A Rust-based Unikernel : love unikernel tech .. and now we have a nice Rust

[Links of the Day] 22/06/2017 : Modern Web Dev spell-book, .Net microservices framework, Optimizing Rust

• Spellbook of Modern Web Dev : like an awesome list for javascript development but with more thought and structure. Must read for front end javascript devs.
• Microdot : not a .net guy but here is a framework for easily creating .NET Microservices with Orleans
• Rust Optimization : a lot of stuff can be applied to any language. But, there is some nugget of information for Rust language in this document.

Links of the day 29 - 04 - 2015

Today's links 29/04/2015 : Concurrency vs parallelism, Reenix #Rust OS, Pulsar Real Time Analytics, Business Town

• Concurrency is not parallelism : very good talk by Rob Pike on the misconception that often occur when people hear the word concurrency they often think of parallelism, a related but quite distinct concept. In programming, concurrency is the composition of independently executing processes, while parallelism is the simultaneous execution of (possibly related) computations. Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once.
• Reenix : unix-like operating system kernel in rust.  I like seeing this type of Rust project, it show the vitality of the language and its versatility. [github]
• Pulsar : Ebay Open-source real-time analytics platform and stream processing framework. Some nice characteristic for real time large scale CEP solution [github]
• Business Town : when real life cliche meets cartoonist .. long live captain moonshot !

Links of the day 13 - 01 - 2015

Today's links 13/01/2015: #Rust Os, #virtualization Field day 4, Cpu history, Architecture design duality

• Rust OS : resources and documentation about operating system development with Rust. 
• Virtualization field day 4 : live streaming start on the 14th of January. You can have a preview of the companies presenting here. 
• What's New in CPUs Since the 80s : A very good overview of the evolution of CPUs ( x86 mainly) and how it affect programmers. 
• On the duality of operating system structures : why the current debate on microservices vs the rest, thread/locks vs events is moot and both views are equals / duals

M3 Duality by Jason-C on DeviantArt