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The Queue Is the Message
The title of this post is a paraphrase of the famous Marshal McLuhan’s ‘The medium is the message‘, meant to imply that the medium that carries the message also embeds itself into the message,...
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Pushy Node.js II: The Mullet Architecture
The post title unintentionally sounds like a movie franchise (e.g. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), but in my defense I DID promise I will return to the topic of pushing events to the browser using...
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Micro-Service Fun – Node.js + Messaging + Clustering Combo
Micro-Services in Silly Walk, Monty Python A: I told you, I’m not allowed to argue unless you’ve paid. M: I just paid! A: No you didn’t. M: I DID! A: No you didn’t. M: Look, I don’t want to...
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SoundCloud is Reading My Mind
Marvelous feats in mind reading, The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, 1900 “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso It was bound to happen. In the ultra-connected world, things...
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Node.js Apps and Periodic Tasks
When working on a distributed system of any size, sooner or later you will hit a problem and proclaim ‘well, this is a first’. My second proclamation in such situations is ‘this is a nice topic for...
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HA All The Things
I hate HA (High Availability). Today everything has to be highly available. All of the sudden SA (Standard Availability) isn’t cutting it any more. Case in point: I used to listen to music on my way...
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The Web of Hooks
It’s a new year, which means it is time to update the copyright at the bottom. I have been busy lately and I didn’t want to write fluffy blogs just to fill the space. But this time I actually have...
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