11 Jul
2011

Pluralcast 46 : Keith Brown on RavenDB

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Listen to this Episode! [38:52] Pluralsight?s Chief Technology Officer, Keith Brown, tells about his experience using RavenDB for storage on the back end of Pluralsight.com. Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he oversees the developer security curriculum, which has an impact across all of Pluralsight’s course offerings. Keith spends most of his time researching […]

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9 Jul
2011

Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer

In my continuing saga of seeing metaphor in every conversation with my house painter, Danny, I bring you another tale that proves we software developers are not alone. In addition to painting the house, I asked Danny’s crew to build a set of stairs off on side of my front porch. This morning, Danny showed […]

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5 Jul
2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Don’t Block The Event Loop

< The list of previous installments can be found here. > The basic premise of Node.js is that all I/O operations are expensive. That is why all I/O should be carried out asynchronously, at least according to the philosophy behind Node.js. What this basically boils down to is that we need to specify a callback […]

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