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Uber is one of my favorite mobile apps. Not only is it a great concept (“Everyone’s Private Driver”), but the app also has a great UI and UX experience (yes, they are different). It asks for the absolute minimum user input and infers...

Twitter recently and publicly announced that by swapping out Ruby for Java and JVM-based Scala, they were able to survive the US election. They must have looked at the TIOBE Programming Community Index where Java is rated the second most popular programming...

Early Experience with Clusters My first real experience with cluster computing came in 1999 during my graduate school days at the Mayo Clinic.  These were wonderful times.   My advisor was Dr. James Greenleaf.   He was very patient with allowing me to...

I think I first heard about the Zstandard compression algorithm at a Mercurial developer sprint in 2015. At one end of a large table a few people were uttering expletives out of sheer excitement. At developer gatherings, that's the universal signal for...

In this blog post we are going to use a functional approach to creating a web application with Erlang and the Chicago Boss framework. Our application will display incoming SMS messages in real-time and allow you to respond to them in your browser using...