mokeefe··on Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I start?Read this, then try to convince them not to re-build from scratch: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1235624&seqN...
mokeefe··on Your Enterprise Software Vendor is Ripping You OffBe sure to read the speaker notes. Also see http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/its-not-just-hp-and-autonom....
mokeefe··on Applying 5 Whys To Amazon EC2 OutageSure, but then your app needs to communicate across the Internet if you share data across regions. This can be expensive and/or slow and/or unreliable. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#how_will_I_be_charged_for_da...
mokeefe··on Steve Ballmer geeking out with young devs in Chicagoskip ahead to 10:00 for the cameo. Also see http://www.youtube.com/user/ChiTechAcademy#p/a/u/0/EMZ9eVKsF...
mokeefe··on Thrift, Protocol Buffers and JSON comparisonI suspect that he forgot to add the speedup option for pb:option optimize_for = SPEED;