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Tuesday, 27 November 2018 Designing Headers for HTTP Compression Filed under: HTTP Protocol Design One of the concerns that often comes up when someone creates a new HTTP header is how much “bloat” it…

The paradigms of programming Floyd, CACM 1979 (Also available in ) A couple of weeks ago we looked at Dan Bernstein’s very topical “thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0.” From the gene…

We should all be automating our image compression.In 2017, image optimization should be automated. It's easy to forget, best practices change, and content that doesn't go through a build pipeline can…

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Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof –Matthew 6:34, Christian Bible, King James TranslationI was the third best programmer on our senior practicum team of five. Bret and Kevin could both code…

We're writing about computer programs in a new stylistic form called pattern languages. The form has many internal references which map well to hypertext links. We've added links to published (or soon…

The November/December issue of acmqueue is out now PDF December 12, 2016Volume 14, issue 5 An apostate's opinion Pat Helland This is an updated and abbreviated version of a paper by the same name…

[Editor’s Note This is a post mortem of my experience writing, publishing and marketing a children’s book about programming. The essay was written from notes taken over the course of the 10 months…

I was a nerdy kid who liked to spend a lot of time reading. Back then, we did not have the Internet, we could not even imagine it... so I ended up reading the dictionary, reading my encyclopedia. I…

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The mission-critical deployments, the robust feature set, the long history all say that Kafka is an Enterprise-capable product. Apache Kafka is going 1.0!

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Home Classic Papers Teaching Classic Papers The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of papers I think are particularly important in the areas where I work. They are a good starting point for students…

I spent most of yesterday afternoon working on a paper I’m co-writing. It was one of those days when the writing came easy. I was moving from topic to topic, but then I realized that I was reaching…

Let me preface this post by saying that no programmer should feel compelled to read any of these papers. I list them because I think that they provide a breadth of information that is generally useful…

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“The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need…

Roy Fielding talks to Mike Amundsen about versioning on the Web, why hypermedia is a requirement in his REST style, the process of designing network software that can adapt over time, and the…

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