reubenbond

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by reubenbond 11y ago
To be fair, this has been around for many years within Microsoft under the name Windows Fabric. I'm not sure how old the python lib is, but the other one is much newer.
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Task<T>/async is a slightly different beast, effectively its a goroutine+channel which can only return 1 value or throw an exception. A better alternative to channels is Rx (Reactive Extensions) which gives you IObservable<T&g
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Another alternative is JSON Web Tokens. Many of the benefits of Client Certificates while avoiding many of the hardships.
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Go to a doctor which bulk bills and you wont have to pay anything. My experience: Call doctor at 9am to book appointment. Walk into medical center at 1pm. See doctor. Sign form on my way out to say I received treatment. I didn't have t
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Look into Microsoft's Task Parallel Library, it's fantastic! It gives you something similar to channels. I wish more people knew about it. As someone else mentioned, Reactive Extensions are also great - I believe they will be gett
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Less really is more
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by reubenbond 12y ago
... Have you seen their prices? Correct me of I'm wrong, but aren't they the same or lower? http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-chops-azure-prices-to-match-a...
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Hi, I do this often. MSBuild is actually very good. That being said, the new stuff coming with ASP.NET 5.0 (vNext), where the build is a simplified JSON file is interesting
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Solving for read hot-spots is not difficult if you're willing to accept a small read penalty: Your typical Kademlia DHT has k-replicas of each piece of data, so you read near the target node (node closest to the target key) rather th
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by reubenbond 12y ago
I believe poster was trying to say that load balancing is probabilistic rather than deterministic: Load is levelled across the DHT only if the hashing function maps keys evenly over the nodes (assuming each key has an equal amount of work a
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by reubenbond 12y ago
"WaitAll" and "WaitAny" have their non-blocking counterparts, "WhenAll" and WhenAny", which allow you to express the same logic/structure without blocking a thread. Nesting callbacks (ContinueWith) ge
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by reubenbond 12y ago
ContinueWith is fine for simple flows, but things fall apart when you need to perform multiple async operations with the same error handling. You either repeat yourself or you put the error handling code into a lambda and make sure you alwa
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Very cool! https://haveibeenpwned.com/ added a similar feature recently, which anyone can use to get notifications if their email appears in a paste or DB leak.
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by reubenbond 12y ago
This McDonald's ad from the 90's was pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68jiSejx3wA
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by reubenbond 12y ago
It would still make sense to use the replicated write-back cache to avoid trips to disk. We were considering replacing MongoDB with Cassandra, though. I wanted to avoid having to deploy and maintain a database system, so using table storage
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by reubenbond 12y ago
Great suggestion, please vote here to make it a reality: http://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-documentdb/suggestio...
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by reubenbond 12y ago
The @DocumentDB twitter links to a tutorial on DocDB: http://www.documentdb.com/sql/tutorial
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by reubenbond 12y ago
DocumentDB has a similar looking (maybe not as powerful) interface: context.collection.filter(function(doc) { return doc.city == "Melbourne" && doc.rating > 4.5; }).map(function(doc) { return doc.displayNa
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by reubenbond 12y ago
I agree with you - we need numbers before making that kind of conclusion and I haven't run any benchmarks on the public version of DocDB. I'd like to see someone measure MongoDB on Azure vs DocDB on Azure - even then it might not
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by reubenbond 12y ago
DocDB is built atop a very well battle-tested distributed systems framework with replication based on a multi-Paxos implementation. I haven't done any benchmarks, but the replication model is far superior to MongoDB's "journa
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by reubenbond 12y ago
You can still build documents programmatically. The SQL-esque syntax is optional. The primary interface is HTTP.
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by reubenbond 12y ago
You can produce and consume signed libraries in .NET very easily. In practice it's becoming less common as .NET becomes more open. As an aside, OP says he works with Bart De Smet and they're messing with expression trees. I bet th
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by reubenbond 13y ago
When you enable replication in MongoDB, you turn on an effectively global lock: the 'local' db must be locked for all primary writes so that the oplog can be written consistently. MongoDB replication is a very unfortunate thing, I