Mind Dump

Linux has this wonderful thing called the buffer cache (for more detail read here ). In summary, it uses all your free ram as a cache for file access. Because of buffer cache you can easily get under 1 millisecond response times.
However, this sets a lot of people up for a trap. Imagine you buy a “database server” with a 5400RPM hard disk at Best Buy, while you’re there you pick up an extra 8 gigs of RAM. After loading the latest Ubuntu and restoring a 1 gig customer database...

Reads and the perils of index tables.
I frequently see index tables in Cassandra being used to allow a One Source Of Truth. It’s important to remember when designing a truly distributed system relational algebra really doesn’t scale, and in memory joins will only get you so far (very little...

With today’s world of programming languages where many languages are better at certain tasks than other’s you’ll find it useful to learn multiple languages over the course of your career (as well as keeping your skill sets current).
Here are some tips I’ve had to learn the hard way:...

I've been using ASP.NET Web API for new service my lone .NET customer. They needed to build a most html/js application into the company intranet and they are only interested in Microsoft Technologies so I figured this would give me something similar...