“Steve and I worked closely together as product managers at Google, mostly on the Go programming language but also across other parts of Google Cloud's developer experience program. During our time, Steve founded major strategic initiatives across several different products, most of which continue to pay dividends for Go and Google to this day. Not only is Steve incredibly gracious and kind-hearted, he is also among the most talented product managers I have met. His experience and ability to consider decisions holistically stand out: When there is an important decision to be made, Steve consistently brings important insights to the conversation that other senior leaders overlook. And he's right -- a lot. Knowing that Steve is involved in a project gives me tremendous confidence in that project's direction and likelihood to succeed. Steve does all this while making work fun, friendly, and rewarding. I emphatically recommend Steve to anyone looking for a strong product management leader; he is a real asset to any organization lucky enough to have him. I sincerely hope I, too, have the pleasure of working with him again one day soon.”
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With a healthy disregard for the impossible, I transform breakthrough technologies into…
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“Design (MCP) servers around capabilities, not commands.” Hemant Kamalakar captured the entire article in this incredibly simple frame. #mcp
“Design (MCP) servers around capabilities, not commands.” Hemant Kamalakar captured the entire article in this incredibly simple frame. #mcp
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This is the first year in a long time I skipped GopherCon. Why? Because I’ve realized: my entire career growth has come from meetups, not…
This is the first year in a long time I skipped GopherCon. Why? Because I’ve realized: my entire career growth has come from meetups, not…
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Bad Data Handbook
O'Reilly
What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems.
From cranky storage to poor representation to misguided policy, there are many paths to bad data. Bottom line? Bad data is data that gets in the way. This book explains effective…What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems.
From cranky storage to poor representation to misguided policy, there are many paths to bad data. Bottom line? Bad data is data that gets in the way. This book explains effective ways to get around it.
Among the many topics covered, you’ll discover how to:
Test drive your data to see if it’s ready for analysis
Work spreadsheet data into a usable form
Handle encoding problems that lurk in text data
Develop a successful web-scraping effort
Use NLP tools to reveal the real sentiment of online reviews
Address cloud computing issues that can impact your analysis effort
Avoid policies that create data analysis roadblocks
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MongoDB and PHP
O'Reilly
See publicationWhat would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.
This book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take…What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.
This book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations and scale.
Learn step-by-step the tools you need to build PHP applications with MongoDB
Perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations, and learn how to perform queries to retrieve data
Administer your database, and access and manipulate data with the MongoDB Shell
Use functions to work with sets, arrays, and multiple documents to perform synchronous, asynchronous, and atomic operations
Discover PHP’s community tools and libraries, and why they’re valuable
Work with regular expressions, aggregation, MapReduce, replication, and sharding
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Method and System for Distributed Point of Sale Transactions
Issued US 20110307387
See patentA method and system for a fully distributed on-line selling environment is presented. Any webpage can contain a program module that for each customer that view any webpage with the module embedded in it, automatically associates that customer with their corresponding shopping cart stored at a central server. The module can initiate a sale transaction for a product presented on the webpage and cause the central server to complete the purchase and fulfillment. The module automatically updates the…
A method and system for a fully distributed on-line selling environment is presented. Any webpage can contain a program module that for each customer that view any webpage with the module embedded in it, automatically associates that customer with their corresponding shopping cart stored at a central server. The module can initiate a sale transaction for a product presented on the webpage and cause the central server to complete the purchase and fulfillment. The module automatically updates the customer shopping cart and presents updated inventory availability. The website hosting the webpages with the module do not operate any back end transaction processing or order fulfillment.
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Functional Programming in Scala
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Hugo
Hugo is an open-source static site generator that has redefined web publishing by prioritizing speed and efficiency. Created by Steve Francia, and led by Bjørn Erik Pedersen it has grown from a specialized tool into one of the most widely adopted frameworks in the static web ecosystem. Its ability to render even the largest websites in milliseconds has made it an indispensable tool for individual developers and large-scale enterprises alike.
The project's impact is demonstrated by its…Hugo is an open-source static site generator that has redefined web publishing by prioritizing speed and efficiency. Created by Steve Francia, and led by Bjørn Erik Pedersen it has grown from a specialized tool into one of the most widely adopted frameworks in the static web ecosystem. Its ability to render even the largest websites in milliseconds has made it an indispensable tool for individual developers and large-scale enterprises alike.
The project's impact is demonstrated by its adoption by some of the world's most prominent technology and media organizations. Notable users have migrated to Hugo to achieve superior performance, security, and a more streamlined content workflow. This includes major projects like:
Kubernetes: Migrated its official website and extensive documentation to Hugo to dramatically reduce build times and improve multilingual support.
1Password: Switched its documentation to Hugo for enhanced security and a more efficient publishing process, citing its preference for static sites for critical content.
Smashing Magazine: A leading resource for web professionals, Smashing Magazine famously moved its entire site to a Jamstack solution powered by Hugo to boost performance and improve its publishing workflow.
Cloudflare: Adopted Hugo for its developer documentation, signaling a shift from other popular static site generators to embrace Hugo's unparalleled build speed.
Hugo's remarkable performance and flexibility have made it the go-to choice for building a wide array of content-driven sites, from corporate and government platforms to technical documentation and high-traffic blogs. Its success is a testament to the power of open-source collaboration and a relentless focus on solving fundamental developer challenges.Other creatorsSee project -
MongoDB
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See projectMongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. Written in C++
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spf13-vim
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spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
It is a completely cross platform distribution that stays true to the feel of vim while providing modern features like a plugin management system, autocomplete, tags and tons more.Other creatorsSee project
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