![]() (Alan Kay, in interview with Dr Dobb's Journal, 2012) I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future - it's living in the present. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. ![]() And let me say, the experience of consuming this magnum opus was just as intense as the applications that it aims to elucidate.ĭesigning Data-Intensive Applications opens with a quote from Alan Kay on the culture of programming:Ĭomputing is pop culture. Now, fast forward two years and I just finished reading Kleppman's book over the weekend. ![]() This was my first introduction to Martin Kleppmann who, at the time, was doing research for this book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, And Maintainable Systems. Soon after that, my teammate, David Bainbridge, pointed me to an article that completely invalidated the value proposition of Redlock. A couple of years ago, I wrote CFRedLock - a ColdFusion implementation of Redlock, which is a distributed-locking algorithm designed by the team behind Redis. ![]()
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