Don't learn to code. Learn to think.
It seems like everyone is trying to learn to code: Code.org has celebrities like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Bosh telling you anyone can code; CoderD...
You are what you document
Hey, grab a seat—we need to talk about documentation. Now, I know what you're thinking: documentation is tedious, a chore, an afterthought, a redundant so...
Bitcoin by analogy
Bitcoin is the first purely digital, decentralized money. It has been on my mind a lot lately and apparently, I'm not the only one. Paul Graham called it a para...
Got fast download but slow upload speeds? Here's a fix.
If you’ve found that your download speed is great, but your upload speed is abysmal, I’ve got a possible solution for you. I struggled with this issue for a whi...
Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding
Update #1: this post hit the front page of r/programming and HN. Thank you for the great feedback! I’ve added some corrections below.
So long, and thanks for all the t-shirts
In 2009, I joined LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. 5 years, 25 t-shirts, 50 hackdays, 4000 employees, several hundred million members, a billion dollars in reve...
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with the Play Framework
Are you trying to get started with the Play Framework? Struggling to wrap your head around Futures, SBT, Scala, Functional Programming, or Iteratees? Then you've ...
Maxing out at 50 concurrent connections with Play or Netty on OS X? Here's a fix.
I recently ran across a strange problem with the Play Framework and Netty: on Linux, my Play app could easily handle thousands of concurrent connections; on OS...
Composable and Streamable Play Apps
A blog post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog about Composable and Streamable Play Apps::
A thousand lives
The other day, I was going through some old files on my computer, and stumbled across a paper that blew my mind. It was a technical write up of an experiment wi...