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The map is not the territory. – Alfred Korzybsky in Science and Sanity, 1933 This is the second post in a series where I’ll discuss various aspects of parallel and distributed system design. I’d like to provide a brief …
…since my intention is to write something useful for anyone who understands it, it seemed more suitable to me to search after the effectual truth of the matter, rather than its imagined one. – Niccolo Machiavelli in The …
As of the time of this writing, Xcode does not offer a framework project to for Cocoa Touch (only Cocoa). Apple’s primary reasons behind this decision are security, performance, and memory footprint. As such Xcode limits …
I wrote a post some time back on the value of singletons in a garbage collected language as an important component of scalability. The majority of my work these days targets Apple iOS (opens in a new window) devices and …
I’ve attended the Apple WWDC (opens in a new window) for the past 4 years and it’s been nothing short of exciting each year. This year, event sold out in 10 hours and so I am fortunate to have a spot. In contrast to last …
What do I mean by elegance? Most software engineers equate elegance to efficiency. Still some equate elegance to robustness. Others choose correctness. All are variables in the equation of elegance. Many other variables …
” It has been said that art is a collaboration between God and the artist, which works best when the artist contributes as little as possible; so too with designing distributed systems ” –André Gide Try to imagine the …
Recent discussions with colleagues regarding use of MethodImplOptions.Synchronized (opens in a new window) prompted me to discuss its implications. Let’s begin with formal documentation. The …