See us at Cloud Connect 2011 – Workshop on Continuous Delivery
Next Monday, March 7th, I’ll be presenting our architecture at Cloud Connect. The talk will be part of the workshop on cloudy operations organized by John Willis. This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management,… Read more
What’s your stock portfolio return?
Consider the following scenario: you invest your money starting with $100K in a brokerage account, and buy some AAPL shares at $200. Then you transfer $5K more into the account and buy some AMZN shares at $120. Later on you sell your APPL shares when it reaches $300. In the end you transfer $10K out… Read more
Protobufs backward and forward
Protobufs are designed to support forward and backward compatibility, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get it wrong. One issue we ran into recently involved adding a new value to an enum. The protobuf code “worked” in the sense that it did not blow up, but our code that used the data failed. Since at… Read more
Born Small… Now Huge… Winning… Bring it..!
Made a wallpaper in honor of my new favorite tweeter… Charlie Sheen. Hope you guys like it. Winning!
Encrypting using gpg from Java
Recently, we worked with a third-party that had trouble reading files encrypted using the Bouncy Castle’s OpenPGP implementation. We ended up deciding to rely directly on the GNU Privacy Guard’s OpenPGP implementation. As I didn’t find any working example on the web, I figured that the following piece of code might end up being useful… Read more
Continuous Deployment for Data, Not Just Services
Last week, I made a mistake which caused some pages of our website to be unavailable for several minutes. I was developing a new feature that allows our customers to see how the money managers of our platform have been sticking to their investing strategy in the past, which we consider a key ingredient in… Read more