Tweet Whilst talking with an ex-colleague, a question came up on how to implement the Stable Marriage problem using a message passing approach. Naturally, I wanted to answer that question with Erlang! Let’s first dissect the problem and decide what processes we need and how they need to interact with one another. The stable marriage

Tweet It’s very uncharacteristic of me, but I went to a session on the product management track at QCon London – Melissa Perris’ “The Bad Idea Terminator”. Having gone in the room with the expectation of coming out not much wiser, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in one of the best talks at

Tweet I was attempting to make some changes to some fairly old code in our codebase (something I probably wrote myself…) which hasn’t been touched on for a while. Naturally, my first step is to understand what the code does, so I started by looking at the class where I need to make my changes.

Tweet On day three of QCon London, we were treated to some really insightful stories from the likes of Google, Atlas and Spotify. And for the first time in a while Uber is talking publically about what they’ve been up to.   The challenge for Uber’s platform is that both supply (Uber drivers) and demand

Tweet Hello, it’s been a while since I last wrote, work has kept me busy for a while – we’re making some interesting changes and experimenting with Docker again, so fun fun fun! Anyhow, I thought I drop you a note to tell you about some of the cool conference that are happening around Europe