Microservices James Lewis & Martin Fowler: There’s no reason why this same approach [Amazon’s “you built it, you run it”] can’t be taken with monolithic applications, but the smaller granularity of services can make it easier to create the personal relationships between service developers and their users. (tagged: service-oriented architecture SOA ) flexbox in the […]
Pre-generating Justified Views Ross Harmes on how the Flickr team achieved a 7× speed increase in page render times: The first time you come to any Flickr page, we store the width of your browser window in a cookie. We can then read that cookie on the server on subsequent page loads. Gotta love a […]
Simplifying For The Wrong Reasons At Meng To's blog. The writing is a little choppy in spots, but this post is thoughtful and the message rings loud and clear: simplifying your interfaces is great, when you're actually simplifying; but if you're not careful you wind up just making something that's sterile and/or confusing. This isn't […]
A Strategy for i18n and Node.js John Resig on internationalizing a Node/Express app. If you've never internationalized an application before, it's a pretty good survey of the intricacies and techniques and worth the read. I'm a little skeptical about using sub-domains for different languages — especially if you're already planning to use the Accept-Language header […]
jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have Matt Baker, writing at the Wealthfront Engineering blog. The title is a little bit linkbaity, but I'm pretty close to agreeing with it: if you're using jQuery in your web project, the Deferred object is one of the most powerful tools that the library offers, and […]
jQuery source viewer Useful little utility by James Padolsey. (Side note: this is one thing about the jQuery API docs that bugs the shit out of me: that you can't jump to the source code. This appears to solve that problem.) (tagged: jQuery JavaScript ) Towards A Retina Web Reda Lemeden, writing at Smashing Coding […]
jQuery Fundamentals :: A guide to the basics of jQuery Looks like the crew at Bocoup gave "jQuery Fundamentals" a nice, solid refresh. If you ask me, this is one of the best (if not the best) guides to writing efficient, scalable jQuery-based JavaScript. Recommended. (tagged: JavaScript jQuery ) Bash One-Liners Explained, Part III: All about […]
Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome At The Atlantic. Everything awesome is happening in Russia. (tagged: Cold War Nostalgia Russia Cosmodrome Baikonur ) How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet At Gizmodo. It's long (and I'll admit to having only skimmed much of it), and it's pessimistic, but a lot of it is also […]
Understanding MVVM – A Guide For JavaScript Developers Addy Osmani on the MVVM pattern, and using Knockout for his examples code, no less. (tagged: Addy Osmani KnockoutJS MVC javascript MVVM ) The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth At Technology Review: Their results contain a number of surprises. First, they calculate that almost as […]
The White Savior Industrial Complex Teju Cole, writing for The Atlantic: This is not the sort of story that is easy to summarize in an article, much less make a viral video about. After all, there is no simple demand to be made and — since corruption is endemic — no single villain to topple. […]