20 Jan 2015

Akka.NET - One Year Later

Akka.NET - Distributed Actor Model for .NET

I originally posted this at Beyond HTTP, Petabridge’s official blog. Read More

12 Jan 2015

In Response to a Letter from a Beginning Programmer

I received a heartfelt response from a new software developer in response to my “What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer?” blog post. With his permission, I decided to post his letter and my response – with his name omitted.

Hi Aaron,

First, I want to...

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27 Dec 2014

The Next Fork in the Road

I had several friends and advisors review this post prior to publishing it; most encouraged me to go forward with publishing it but others cautioned that future investors / business partners may choose to pass on a deal with me due to the content below. I took time to consider...

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24 Jul 2014

Real-time Marketing Automation with Distributed Actor Systems and Akka.NET

I published a lengthy post on MarkedUp’s blog yesterday about the new product we recently released, MarkedUp In-app Marketing Automation for Windows Desktop (with support for Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android planned) and how it uses Akka.NET’s distributed actor system to execute real-time marketing automation...

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15 Jul 2014

Tradeoffs in High Performance Software

I’ve spent down the past week tracking down an absolutely brutal bug inside Akka.NET. Sometimes the CPU utilization of the system will randomly jump from 10% to 100% and stay pegged like that until the process is recycled. No exceptions were thrown and memory / network / disk usage...

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03 Jul 2014

The Profound Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem

I’m in the process of writing up a lengthy set of blog posts for MarkedUp about the work that went into developing MarkedUp In-app Marketing, our real-time marketing automation and messaging solution for Windows desktop applications (and eventually WP8, WinRT, iOS, Android, Web, etc…)

During the course of bringing...

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01 Mar 2014

Bitcoin Paved the Way, but it’s Not the Future of Cryptocurrency

bitcoinUntil recently, I was extremely skeptical of cryptocurrency in general. In the midst of the investment speculation and mania in late 2013,...

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19 Dec 2013

The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers

The MarkedUp Analytics team had some fun over the past couple of weeks sharing horror stories about software atrocities and the real-life inspirations for the things you read on The Daily WTF. In particular, we talked about bad apples who joined our development teams over the years and...

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