Fubaredness Is Contagious

Do you remember how we used to programmatically consume services on the web before proliferation of APIs? That’s right – scraping! And do you know what prevents us from using this technique now, when some piece of data you need for your application, is not available via API? That’s right – absolutely nothing!
I recently came [...]

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I started a small new project on Github – http://github.com/somic/ec2-multiregion. It includes several small tools that facilitate EC2 API operations that involve multiple regions at the same time.
If I were to query each endpoint one after another, I quickly discovered it would take too long. Therefore, I created a small helper class called BotoWorkerPool (in [...]

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Shell was among the first things I got familiar with when I was introduced to Linux. It’s not a typical programming language, primarily due to lack of easy-to-use high-level data structures such as hashes and arrays (anticipating your objection to this – note I said “easy-to-use”). This may explain why I often get funny looks [...]

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I started a new project on github – http://github.com/somic/graphite-rabbitmq. It currently includes a couple of tools written in Python which facilitate sending data to Graphite via RabbitMQ instead of connecting directly to the service using TCP.
Graphite is a flexible and powerful tool to build charts. It’s also a data series analytics framework. It was developed [...]

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Yesterday was 1 year since I started at CohesiveFT. New things this year (in no particular order):

Mac. I got a Macbook Pro as my work laptop. Feels great every time I sit down to work, even though I am not a very demanding desktop user – browser, email, IM, rss reader for non-public feeds, [...]

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