Stories by jtolio
This is where the last few months of my life have gone. 90 pages of distributed systems experience. I also learned way more LaTeX than I cared to.
Hey folks, this is something @zeebo and I and a few others have been working on for a week or two. We've made some really interesting challenges. If you compete, you'll end up learning erasure coding, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, write a small programming language, etc.
These things are super fun...
Introduction to Reed-Solomon and Berlekamp-Welch for error correction (+ Go library)
(innovation.vivint.com)
This package is somewhat of a combination of a distributed tracing library (with built-in graph generation), and something more like @codahale's metrics library. Integrations are driven by plugins, but we have plugins for Graphite and Zipkin already. It's been very useful to us. Let me know what you...
I can't believe this functionality isn't built in to Git. It's so useful, I use this all the time.
(just ported an older version in Ruby to Python)
For an undergrad school CS project, my brother made a physics simulator. It's honestly super awesome.