Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Reuters, Milliseconds, and Fail

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Let's say you work for Reuters and produce something called Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) to send live market data to your custome...

Friday, August 22, 2008

Tiny Java Containers: None Of Them Do What I Want

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Dear Lazyweb, Although I find it difficult to focus on programming while BBC is live broadcasting Olympic Table Tennis, focus I must. But I ...

Monday, August 18, 2008

AMQP: Involve End-User Developers

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I had a chance to sit down at a pub (fabulous network effects having tech clusters provides, even if most of us in London are working for f...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Next Open Protocol Failure: Perforce

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I've been using Perforce for years (professionally since early 1998), and I like it. It's a great product. Not perfect, but the com...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Yegge Minimalism

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I'm verbose, but not this verbose: Don't gather business requirements: hire domain experts. Yep, whole post comes down to one senten...

Friday, August 08, 2008

Google Protocol Buffers and Streaming

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Okay, I'm not going to give some huge rundown on RPC or services or network size vs. CPU efficiency. Just a little observation which ga...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Real MOM is Hard; Let's Use XMPP!

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Dare Obasanjo brings up an argument that I've actually heard in the past: "You don't need a real message oriented middleware ...

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