[Part 2 of a short series on messaging systems. (Part 1)] Having implemented messaging systems of various sizes and scopes in all sorts of environments, I’ve come up with a few guidelines for myself: If messaging is not the core service, make it an orthogonal network service. If possible make the messages ephemeral. If the […]
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Messaging: Why Would You Do This?
[Part 1 of a short series on messaging systems. (Part 2)] Messaging is a feature that seems to wind up on the ZOMG MUST HAVE!!1! feature list long after initial system deployment quite a bit these days. I’ve been getting asked about this a lot lately, so I’ve written down my generic advice here for […]
Source or Satire?
From time to time I encounter openly discoverable code that is so wild in nature that I can’t help but wonder if the author was writing a machine function or a satirical statement. Groovy source: ArrayUtil.java After spending a few days plowing through Java code at the outset of a new Android project I found […]