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Adventures in Debugging: Bring Your Tools

November 19, 2010 – 6:00 am

Several years back, when I was working for a company that sold high performance appliances, we received a report from a customer that performance was atrocious and nowhere near our indicated throughput by several times over. Obviously we needed to work out what was going on. To the tools mobile! Thankfully the appliances had the ability [...]

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SmartPlatform and Node.js on No.de

September 16, 2010 – 10:34 am

Recently there have been multiple tweets, IRC conversations and blog articles describing our SmartPlatform and its correlation to the recent no.de service that we ran as an alpha release at node knockout. There was quite a bit of confusion as to what the no.de service is and how it aligns with the SmartPlatform and also [...]

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On Solaris

July 2, 2010 – 1:50 pm

Over the years that I’ve been developing on unix platforms I’ve come in contact with quite a few… Linux (from 2.2 upwards), FreeBSD (version 4 upwards), Solaris (8, 9, 10 on both SPARC and x86), OS X, AIX, HPUX and even VMS. Even though I’ve come into contact with these I’ve not really gotten to [...]

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