I like Docker. If you don’t understand why, read the 3.5k word epic that I wrote about it at InfoQ. In this post I’ll assume
you’ve read my InfoQ article, or are at least somewhat familiar with Docker and its features.
Here’s two features that I…

In a previous post I described how Nix could be used to easily set up a development environment without the use of virtual machines alternatives like Vagrant require. As an example I used setting up a development environment for a simple…

I remember my first day at Cloud9 IDE well. It was very similar to my first day Technical University of Delft as a PhD student, and my first day at LogicBlox: a day spent on installing a bunch of software, tweaking configuration files, environment…

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I’ve been playing a little bit with ZFS, Oracle’s (previously Sun’s) next-generation file system. Originally developed for Solaris, but since it’s open source also ported to Linux (as of 0.6.1 considered…

For a long time, JavaScript has been my go-to language. Of course, in the browser, but on the server too. When I started with JavaScript I spent a lot of time finding ways to reduce “callback hell”, but eventually I just gave in: code generators and systems that require a…