Alvaro Videla

videlalvaro.github.io

Before having this blog I used to write about Symfony, XMPP, Erlang, Haskell, Firebug and more at this blog: ObviousHints

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems

2015196 points30 comments Systems & Performance details

For quite some time now I’ve been trying to learn about distributed systems, and it’s appropriate to say that once you start digging, there seems to be no end to it, the rabbit hole goes on and on. The literature in distributed systems is quite extensive, with lots of papers coming from different universities, plus…

Harmful Gotos, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths

2015142 points73 comments Software Engineering details

Let's revisit some programming myths and see how harmful they have been to our industry.