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The HFT Guy

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A developer in London

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2026 1

  1. Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires

2025 1

  1. Anaconda Inc has entered litigation against non-paying user of Anaconda: Alibaba, Intel, Dell, Airbus

2024 1

  1. CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent

2023 3

  1. Buggy animation in Atlassian BitBucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times
  2. The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed
  3. Why are there no antitrust claims vs GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?

2022 2

  1. The CostCo UK Website Never Worked in the UK
  2. White House estimates coin mining in Texas will require 47 new nuclear reactors, over the next decade.

2021 1

  1. French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid; must be enforced via contractual dispute

2020 21

  1. My Experience In Production with: Flask, Bottle, Tornado and Twisted
  2. Bug of the Day: Youtube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling out 60 FPS videos.
  3. How to Deduplicate String Objects In-Memory in Python?
  4. French judge rules GPL license to be inapplicable in French copyright court
  5. What Every Developer Should Know About Civil Law and Software Subscriptions
  6. GDPR Violation: ScribD acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn
  7. Borked Windows 10 Update 2020-08-31: Reset Sound Settings
  8. Technical Debt Doesn’t Exist
  9. A Haven for Fraud and Stolen Cards… or How My Wife Was Forced to Quit Revolut
  10. The Differences Between Splunk, Kibana and Graylog.
  11. Amazon CodeGuru is Blatantly Taking Over CodeGuru From Microsoft
  12. Making beautifulsoup Parsing 10 times faster
  13. Atlassian, First Company To Have Their Production Databases Deleted by meow?
  14. The Most Remarkable Legacy System I Have Seen
  15. What Prevents Companies From Open Sourcing Their Codebase?
  16. JP Morgan, the largest US bank, retired their last Perl software in 2019
  17. Major Bug in glibc is Killing Applications With a Memory Limit
  18. What AES ciphers to use between CBC, GCM, CCM, Chacha-Poly?
  19. Will AirBnb Go Bankrupt? and When?
  20. Postmortem: Why you should not re-use CSR when renewing SSL certificates
  21. JWT is Awesome: Here’s Why

2019 6

  1. Why products are shutdown? The case of Verizon and Yahoo Groups.
  2. What takes longer to build, Windows or the Great Pyramid?
  3. The demise of docker and the rise of kubernetes
  4. Perl is dying quick. Could be extinct by 2023.
  5. The Gmail bug that’s been stealing $187M a year from Expedia
  6. The Difference Between id_token and access_token in OpenID Connect

2018 2

  1. AWS is now cheaper than IBM SoftLayer
  2. The Inevitable Demise of IBM SoftLayer by AWS

2017 11

  1. How To Make Millions By Distributing Pirated Movies?
  2. Scrum vs Kanban: Aren’t They The Same Thing?
  3. Hitting The Hacker News Front Page: How Much Traffic Do You Get?
  4. Which Skills Are The Most Employable In Tech?
  5. What Does It Really Take To Track A Million Cell Phones?
  6. The 187 Million Dollars Gmail Bug
  7. What’s The Best Data Warehouse Solution? RedShift vs BigQuery vs Hadoop
  8. What’s The Best NoSQL Database? Cassandra vs MongoDB vs Redis vs ElasticSearch
  9. SQL vs NoSQL: What’s The Best Database And When?
  10. Docker in Production: An Update
  11. Career Advice and Salary Negotiations: Move Early and Move Often

2016 17

  1. Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
  2. Before And After Docker: How To Deploy An Application
  3. Docker in Production: A History of Failure
  4. How to present a GitHub project for your resume
  5. Building an Analytics Pipeline in 2016: The Ultimate Guide
  6. HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing!
  7. 250 GB/day of logs with Graylog: Lessons Learned
  8. HackerRank Testing: A glimpse at the company side
  9. Cracking the HackerRank Test: 100% score made easy
  10. GCE vs AWS in 2016: Why you shouldn’t use Amazon
  11. What’s The Best Cloud Provider in 2017? AWS vs Digital Ocean vs Google Cloud vs OVH
  12. Stack Overflow Survey Results: Money does buy happiness!
  13. System Design: Combining HAProxy, nginx, Varnish and more into the big picture
  14. Configuring timeouts in HAProxy
  15. Monitoring in the Cloud: Datadog vs Server Density vs SignalFX vs StackDriver vs BMC Boundary vs Wavefront vs NewRelic
  16. How to export Amazon EC2 instances to a CSV file
  17. CV Francais vs UK resume

2015 3

  1. LDAP Benchmark: 10 million users with OpenDJ
  2. IAM Benchmark: OpenAM vs WSO2 vs SimpleSAMLphp vs Shibboleth
  3. LDAP Benchmark: OpenDJ vs OpenLDAP vs Symas OpenLDAP vs ApacheDS