In 2008 I was getting paid to work on my creation, Apache CouchDB. IBM had hired me early that year to put it into the Apache Incubator and by then it was a top level project. I was living in Asheville NC with my wife and kids, in the house 23hrs a day wo... (more…)

Static variables are available throughout the entire life of a program. They are allocated in a block of memory known at compile time. Due to that, they tend to represent global state that the program can access. It's getting especially tricky if one stat...

Oracle aims to help improve container deployment and management with a new container runtime and utilities to improve debugging and container builds. (more…)

Making a performant async lambda using rust : A tutorial, and my experiences along the way... (more…)

I recently published a story about bitflyer, a simple game for the BBC micro:bit. (more…)