Plurrrr

In this post, I’ll summarize what I’ve learned from an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of two important concepts in programming: Python’s generators and Scheme’s continuation. The aim is not to teach Python or Scheme programming. Rather, what I want to do is to demonstrate that generators are special cases of a much more powerful construct - continuations. Continuations allow programmers to invent new control structures, and it is the foundation upon which iterators, generators, coroutines, and many other useful constructs can be built. I have found it very useful to understand how generators work from the deeper and broader perspective of continuations.

This weekend I was talking with a friend about how I'd planned and estimated a huge software project in one of my previous jobs. By that I mean not something which can be done by a single team in a sprint or two, but something which requires several teams, across several quarters of effort, involving many other departments of non-engineering team members.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short thread on Twitter about the undying argument Is this really bad UI, or is it just you who are averse to change? — I’m publishing these observations here simply because it will be easier to find them and reference them in the future.

Docker is one of the tools that has simplified and eased the development of applications amongst teams. The application is being packaged in a container shipped and run giving the developers a better experience during development, testing, and deployment. This container is being created using a Docker image where all the application’s dependencies and runtime information are required to run it.

In recent years, developers have embraced this approach because they do not need to worry about installing all dependencies on their system. What is needed is just Docker on their computer.

This article will detail the steps to follow whenever we want to Dockerize our application with Node.js. With that, we mean to achieve the smooth development experience Docker provides. This article will not focus on explaining what Docker is but we will look at a few reasons why we would want to Dockerize our application.

Don’t. Worker pools are not a great fit for Rust due to its ownership model. Instead, embrace functional programming and immutable data. Rust provides simpler to use and more elegant tools: parallel Iterators and Streams.