Lua

Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC

As I detailed in How We Made GitHub Fast, we have created a new data serialization and RPC protocol to power the GitHub backend. We have big plans for these technologies and I’d like to take a moment to explain what makes them special and the philosophy behind their creation.

GitHub Rebase #26

Welcome to Rebase #26! If you’ve got an interesting project you’d like to see on the column feel free to shoot me a message. I’d love to see more themed Rebases, like the book edition. Perhaps we could have a JSON edition, a hardcore C edition, unknown language edition, and so on. I follow some simple guidelines that you can check out here too.

Extending Tokyo Cabinet DB with Lua

Tokyo Cabinet is a trove of hidden of gems, the more you learn about it, the more you will appreciate the design and technical decisions behind it.

Another Day, Another Language

The smart folks over at Pragmatic Programmers have done it yet again… I’ve bought another book from them; this time it’s Programming Erlang in the wonderful Beta Book format – how wonderful is it that we developers, mostly an impatient lot to begin with, now don’t even have to wait for a book to be published to start reading?.

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