This is an email interview with Viktor Klang , Director of Engineering at Typesafe , on the Scala Futures model & Akka, both topics on which is he is immensely passionate and knowledgeable.
How do you structure your application? That's the question I explored in the article Beyond Threads And Callbacks . An option I did not talk about, mostly because of my own ignorance, is a powerful stack you may not be all that familiar with: Scala and Akka.
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Stewart Smith, Director of Server Development, Percona
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This is a guest post by LogicMonitor's Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman , about the different ways they're monitoring the success or failure of Puppet runs.
If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our tool of choice. It is powerful and works well for us, except when things don't go as planned. Failures of …
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…the US Chief Information Officer, and the White House Director of Digital Strategy will work closely with and support the Round 2 MyUSA Fellows as they take the MyUSA service to the next level.
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