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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 07 Mar 2014 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....The etcd project is a project that I stumbled upon that looks interesting. It is a a highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery. It is written in Go and is implemented using Raft. I’m reviewing commit ..."
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Reviewing etcd
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 06 Mar 2014 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....As we are gearing up to do more & more stuff in Voron, it occurred to me that while we have settled on a good technological system for it, we haven’t settled on a real set of conventions for real use. We’re probably going to see a lot of use in..."
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Usage conventions for using Voron
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 06 Mar 2014 00:36
Scott Hanselman writes "....I'm a big Lenovo fan and have used Thinkpads nearly exclusively since my first T60p. I'm using an first-gen X1 Carbon Touch as my main on the go machine these days. I've also tried using a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro but had a little trouble with its..."
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Review: A tale of three Lenovo Laptops - X1 Carbon Touch, ThinkPad Yoga, IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 05 Mar 2014 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....This is another experiment with longer posts. Previously, I used the time series example as the bed on which to test some ideas regarding feature design, to explain how we work and in general work out the rough patches along the way. I should..."
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Distributed counters feature design
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Steve Smith | Blog | 04 Mar 2014 23:42
Steve Smith writes "....Incentives and offers are a mainstay of modern business sales and marketing. People feel better about making a purchasing decision if they think they are getting a deal, and frequently people need some kind of a push to get them to buy now,..."
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Incent All Parties Involved
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 04 Mar 2014 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....Being able to handle replication at the storage level is a really nice feature to have. More than that, it is a feature that can be broadly applied. But… a database is a lot more than just storage. And being able to just move the data around..."
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Time series feature design: Storage replication & the bee’s knees
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 04 Mar 2014 02:10
Scott Hanselman writes "....Last week I was exploring today's varied choices we have for Automated Browser Testing. There's headless WebKit "browsers" like PhantomJS and cloud powered multi-browser testing tools like BrowserStack and SauceLabs. Selenium is kind of..."
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NuGet Package of the Week: FluentAutomation for automated testing of Web Applications
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 04 Mar 2014 00:41
Scott Hanselman writes "....I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me. You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can sign up here to the Newsletter of..."
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 21st, 2014
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 03 Mar 2014 14:00
Oren Eini writes "....One of the interesting challenges that we have with RavenDB is the number and duration of our tests.
In particular, we current have over three thousands tests, and they take hours to run. We are doing a lot of stuff there “let us insert..."
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Tweaking xUnit
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 03 Mar 2014 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....Because RavenDB is a database, a lot of the tests we have to run are pretty long. For example, we need to touch the disk a lot, and we have a lot of networked tests. that means that running this test suite can take a while. But the default..."
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What does the test say?
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