Software Development
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R: Snakes and ladders markov chain
A few days ago I read a really cool blog post explaining how Markov chains can be used to model…
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Writing Clean Tests – Small Is Beautiful
We have learned that “clean” unit tests might not be as clean as we think. We have done our best…
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Neo4j: The learning to cycle dependency graph
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading about skill building and the break down of skills into more…
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Microservices for Enterprises Part I
Technology is the foundation of differentiation whether you’re a large enterprise or the small startup. If businesses fail to embrace…
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5 Ways to Destroy Your Productivity
Hey you. Yeah, you. Want to know how to absolutely and utterly destroy your productivity? Good. You’ve come to the…
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Biological computer simulation of selfish genes
TL;DR: I did a computer simulation of behavior evolution of monkeys, continue reading to see how problem was stated originally…
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High-Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) and Cassandra on OS X
Our new parent company, LexisNexis, has one of the world’s largest public records database: “…our comprehensive collection of more than…
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5 simple rules for securely storing passwords
Far too frequently, systems are hacked and their user databases are compromised. And there are far too many cases where…
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OptaPlanner – How fast is logging?
What’s the cost of trace/debug logging in production? What’s the performance cost of logging to a file? In these benchmarks,…
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