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1. Monolithic applications and architectures  can vary in their monolithness. This is an under-specified description.
2. Microservice applications and architectures can vary in their microness. This is an under-specified description.
3. Microservices and monolithic architectures have both benefits and disadvantages.
4. Organizations will exploit those benefits while working around any weaknesses.
5. Success of the business is a large influence on the exploitation of benefits and implementation and costs of workarounds.
6. All benefits and work arounds are context-sensitive. Meaning that they are both technically and socially constructed by the organization that navigates them. 
7. Path dependency is a thing. History matters and manifests in these architectural decisions and evolution in an organization. 
8. Patterns exist to inform practice, not dictate it. Zealous adherence to an architectural pattern brings peril when it is to the exclusion of cultural context in actual practice.
9. Architectural patterns w

anantn

function go() {
  var userId = prompt('Username?', 'Guest');
  var userData = { name: userId };
  tryCreateUser(userId, userData);
}

var USERS_LOCATION = 'https://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/users';

function userCreated(userId, success) {
  if (!success) {

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

reyjrar

(* 
 * New-iTerm-Window.scpt
 * 
 * Intended for use with QuickSilver
 *  I mapped option-y to running this script to create
 *  a new iTerm window on the current workspace
 *
 * Based on much Googling - very little "original" code here
 *   Comments/Suggestions to [email protected]
 *)

juniorz

# Some good references are:
# http://russbrooks.com/2010/11/25/install-postgresql-9-on-os-x
# http://www.paolocorti.net/2008/01/30/installing-postgis-on-ubuntu/
# http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2630392

#1. Install PostgreSQL postgis and postgres

brew install postgis
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

paulirish

// get the average color of two hex colors.
function avgcolor(color1,color2){
    var avg  = function(a,b){ return (a+b)/2; },
        t16  = function(c){ return parseInt((''+c).replace('#',''),16) },
        hex  = function(c){ return (c>>0).toString(16) },
        hex1 = t16(color1),
        hex2 = t16(color2),
        r    = function(hex){ return hex >> 16 & 0xFF},
        g    = function(hex){ return hex >> 8 & 0xFF},
        b    = function(hex){ return hex & 0xFF},