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Rubinius Rubinius began as a metacircular implementation of Ruby and was billed as Ruby in Ruby. Today the core and much of the standard library, parser, bytecode compiler, and other components are implemented in Ruby, but the interpreter, runtime, GC … Read more

November 2021 The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks High finance is a foreign country; they do things differently there Today will I take you through the keyhole to look at a group of software systems … Read more

I was somewhere around eight or nine when the 8 bit era of personal computers started getting into action. Of course down in Australia, everything was 2 years behind what was happening in the US. My first real experience of … Read more

This post is first of the 3-part History of PaaS series. When you hear the term “PaaS” (i.e. Platform as a Service), Heroku is probably the first platform that comes to your mind. However, while Heroku did play a significant … Read more

In the 1890s, the biggest cities of the western world faced a mounting problem. Horse-drawn vehicles had been in use for thousands of years, and it was hard to imagine life without them. But as the number of such vehicles … Read more

I graduated from college in 1997. While at college, the Netscape IPO, Yahoo IPO, eBay IPO, and Amazon IPO all happened. When I graduated, I couldn’t wait to go join this incredible time and be part of creating the next … Read more

Nippon Budokan, in Tokyo, is a revered center for budo, or Japanese martial arts. Steps away from some of the busiest avenues of the hyperkinetic city, a pedestrian road leads past the stone fortress walls and tree-lined moats of the … Read more

In 1878, Bombay University completed construction on a dazzling addition to the colonial city’s skyline: a 280-foot clock tower. Built in the Venetian Gothic style, the Big Ben–inspired structure was the tallest at the time in the city that would … Read more