Fubaredness Is Contagious

Most people who work with Internet know about RFC1918 “Address Allocation for Private Internets.” But did you know that RFC 3330 “Special-Use IPv4 Addresses” has even more address spaces allocated for non-public use?
I didn’t know about it till today.

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… And it’s not only because it’s often cheaper to own or use, but also because it raises the bar for every single piece of proprietary software – they no longer can get away with poor user interface or limited features like they used to. Proprietary software now has to beat and exceed open source [...]

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Someone once asked me to explain cloud computing. I jokingly replied that it’s like running your servers somewhere where there is no shortage of CPU power, storage capacity or bandwidth, and you get charged only for what you actually use. And if you needed more, you just ask (via API) – and it’s there. “Wow! [...]

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Designing a distributed application to be fault tolerant is one of my favorite things that I often get to do at work. First of all, it should never fail under normal circumstances. Don’t believe people who tell you that circumstances are never normal – if it’s the case, a fault-tolerant design is the least of [...]

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