Slides for my Craft-Conf meetup talk on DSLs and F#
Learn you to tame complex APIs with F#-powered DSLs from Yan Cui
Programming
Binary and Json benchmarks updated
DISCLAIMER : as always, you should benchmark against your payload and use case, the benchmark numbers I have produced here is unlikely to be representative of your use cases and neither is anybody else’s benchmark numbers. You can use the simple test harness I created and see these example code to benchmark against your particular …
Design for Latency issues
The most common issue I have encountered in production are latency/performance related. They can be symptoms of a whole host of underlying causes ranging from AWS network issues (which can also manifest itself in latency/error-rate spikes in any of the AWS services), over-loaded servers to simple GC pauses. Latency issues are inevitable – as much …
Don’t learn a syntax, learn to change the way you think
“A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” – Alan Perlis In my last post, I outlined the techniques to learning that I picked up from Josh Kaufman’s TEDx talk. I briefly mentioned that one should learn a new paradigm rather than a language with a slightly different …
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Learn to Learn
Being a responsible speaker, I have started preparing my talk – A tour of the language landscape – for NDC Oslo months ahead of time! When I first came up with the idea for this talk, I asked on Twitter if anyone else thought it was a good idea. Phil made a great point about …
Modelling game economy with Neo4j
In Here Be Monsters, we have a MMORPG that is content-heavy with over: 5000 items 800 recipes 500 locations 1500 quests and since the contents are highly connected, it makes balancing the game a rather interesting and challenging problem for our small team behind the project. The Challenge Consider a simple example involving the Camouflage …
Random thoughts on API design
This excellent book by Steve Krug was a real eye opener when I chanced upon it a few years ago. I’m not a UI/UX designer by trade or by training, and as a backend developer my appreciation for UI/UX has very little outlet in my day-to-day job either. But still I find plenty of symmetries …
Slides from LambdaCon
Phew, finally back in familiar surroundings of London after back-to-back conferences in Italy where I spoke about Elm and F# at CodeMotion Rome and LambdaCon. It was a great couple of days, saw some interesting talks (I’ll write up some summaries later), met some old friends and made new ones. Here are the slides for …