Bemused ramblings some dude says on the internet
Serverless architecture is a newer design paradigm for application development as well as platform hosting. It is the natural evolution of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS to fit the development space. The obvious question is how exactly does serverless architecture handle being “serverless”?
Serverless architecture isn’t actually serverless, but the the creation, maintenance, and culling of servers is completely transparent to the “user”.… Read the rest
O’Reilly’s Perl Cookbook is one of the first books I got for learning Perl, along with “The Camel Book” (Programming in Perl). The Perl Cookbook is the next step after starting to learn and work with the language. It’s useful from very early on, and I have referenced it for ideas of how to approach a problem even when working with Perl professionally.… Read the rest
How do I make my blog more profitable?
You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t asking yourself something similar. In the age of a click being worth pennies and the RPM being a rounding error away from zero, it’s hard to know exactly how to turn a blog from a money sink into something more than (cheap) beer money at best.… Read the rest
The first time you have to jump a language for a new project is one of the most frightening parts of being a developer. I previously had to jump between languages for pet projects and solo projects, but I never had to start a large scale project from the ground up in a language I’d never touched before. It was definitely an intimidating prospect, but it was the only way to push forward in my career, so I pushed myself as hard as possible.… Read the rest
RFC 1122 and RFC 1123 define the basics of the TCP/IP Model. The OSI Model may be a bit more useful for defining troubleshooting steps and more popular for discussing network issues, but TCP/IP won the standards war. The TCP/IP model is adverse to layering overall, but it does have layers nonetheless.
The TCP/IP model is based on the DARPA concepts for ARPANET and was adopted for widespread use for military networking in the 80’s.… Read the rest
We’re going to go over the default OS library included in Lua. This library is very useful, but is also platform specific. What works on one OS may not work on another.
Once you start using an OS library, you run the risk of your code losing portability. If you use a clock or the time for a random number seed, it’s not going to impact your program (except possibly cryptographic functions), but how do you get a list of files in a directory?… Read the rest