/*---[ Problem ]---*/ This week I was faced with the need to write a Groovy script that would run on a Hadoop node at work, but we don...

/*---[ Annoyance ]---*/ With Xubuntu 13.04, every time I get a kernel upgrade, which seems to happen at least once a month, my VMWare Pl...

/* ---[ Opacity: A brief rant ]--- */ Despite the popularity of Hadoop and its ecosystem, I've found that much of it is frustratingl...

Phil Hagelberg, the creator and primary maintainer of Leiningen, has been advocating that Clojurians sign their Clojure libraries for the re...

The Go approach to concurrent software can be characterized as: Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.... ...

There's a legendary example called the concurrent prime sieve, which is kind of an amazing thing. It was the first truly beautiful con...

"The select statement is a key part of why concurrency is built into Go as features of the language, rather than just a library. It...