Why do we sleep? We spend a third of our lives in slumber, but science has yet to determine exactly why we have do it. Here’s a look at how sleep works, why we’re not getting enough sleep, what happens if you DON’T sleep, and an idea about where sleep came from in the first place.

This video is all about using incremental search to navigate through your emacs buffers.

My mantra to keep the head above the info water is: PACMAN. Or rather PACMan: Plan-Act-Capture-Manage. PACMan helps you eat information nuggets all along the way and keep going happily, while fixing filter failures letting phantoms through. It has a lot to do with personal knowledge management (PKM) so perhaps it should be called PaKMan 😉

(Work in progress.) Tools for monitoring systems and applications, especially in the Java EE environment. Monitoring needs Metric collection – collection of metrics from different machines, s…

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

The new Java release train means that there will be a new release of Java every six months. And when the next release comes out, the previous release is obsolete.

Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback

At Affectv we use a wide range of editors: Sublime, Atom, Emacs, Pycharm, IntelliJ... Actually only two people use the same editor! As suc...

Devops, Scrum, Kanban, Pair-Programming – diese Methoden sind bei Startups längst fest etabliert. Was aber, wenn ein deutscher Traditionskonzern wie Volkswagen auf agile Methoden setzt? Wir haben uns vor Ort angeschaut, wie gut das funktioniert.

Mit einer Spezialeinheit sollte der Zoll seinen Kampf gegen Geldwäsche verstärken. Doch nun türmen sich unbearbeitete Fälle - Ermittler sind frustriert. Von Jan Lukas Strozyk und Benedikt Strunz.

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There are cases where great efforts have been made to adopt microservice patterns without understanding the specifics of the problem at hand...

After talking with people about upgrading of CQRS and event sourced systems, Michiel Overeem came to the conclusion that many working with event sourced systems lack an understanding and don’t know how to approach the problem. At the recent DDD Europe 2018 conference in Amsterdam he described how this was a trigger for him to do an exploratory research on how to evolve this kind of systems.

In 1936 the prolific self-help guru and famous eccentric James T. Mangan published You Can Do Anything! — an enthusiastic and exclamation-heavy pep-manual for the art of living. Among its highlights is a section titled 14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge — a blueprint to intellectual growth, advocating for such previously discussed essentials as the importance of taking example from those who have succeeded and organizing the information we encounter, the power of curiosity, the osmosis between learning and teaching, the importance of critical thinking (because, as Christopher Hitchens pithily put it, “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”), the benefits of writing things down, why you should let your opinions be fluid rather than rigid, the art of listening, the art of observation, and the very core of what it means to be human.

Eine schöne Übersicht über Ausreden und deren Widerlegungen zum Thema Continuous Delivery. Wer die einleitende Erläuterung was Continuous Delivery ist überspringen will kann ab Minute 13.50 einsteigen.

Z.B. Cloud.gov

key takeaways z.B.: Domain events are great for decentralised data-management, generating read-models or tackling cross-cutting concerns. However, you should not implement complex peer-to-peer event chains. Using commands to coordinate other services will reduce your coupling even further.