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Anecdotally I keep hearing the overuse/abuse of OOP (Object Oriented Programming paradigm), especially in Java, has proved to be counter productive over the last two+ decades. This obviously is a religious topic; but…

Most content in the social media platforms are dynamic and generated per user based on their friends, iikes, subscriptions etc. Does this mean search engines don't get to index any of the contents shared in social media…

https://queue.acm.org/ is providing membership free access for three months. Looking for suggestion for good papers to read. My primary areas of interest, concurrency/performance at scale, distributed systems,…

I have good ideas for side projects and in general want to keep myself primed by solving algorithmic problems (I am an individual contributor with 15+ years exp and no plans to move to management roles). But I struggle…

Its an area I suck, writing good functionality/integrations tests for the features I implement. Looking for blogs/articles from developers who are better at this, tips, practices etc.

When migrating from Linux firewall to AWS Security Groups are there any issues to be aware of ? I believe number of rules is limited in AWS Security Groups. Are there other limitations or known issues ?

Can you share some blog posts, presentations about modern monitoring & alerting framework used by web scale companies ? I hear a lot of about Graphite, Prometheus, Nagios, Datadog etc. But missing the big picture view…

- what are the main technical differences in the way networking is implemented in AWS vs GCP ? - Are there any commonly used networking solution with physical hardware (Cisco, Arista etc.) that doesn't work well or…

I am interested in the NLP space. Which language has wider collection of libraries that are mature ? Also, what is a good source to understand the literature (algorithms) in the area of NLP.

Apparently CA's platform can monitor & analyze millions of requests going through JVM nodes per second. Are there details about how exactly the JVM monitoring is implemented ? Are there similar open source tools ?

SANS.org paper on NIDS says the following "performs an analysis for a passing traffic on the entire subnet. Works in a promiscuous mode, and matches the traffic that is passed on the subnets to the library of knows…

It looks really expensive (~$140 per month per employee ?) but the company seems to be growing crazy and also a very good place to work for. How are they able to pull off such a high subscription price ?

For enterprises managing/orchestrating VMs across decent size data centers (few thousand nodes) which is used more in production, mesos or Openstack ? Is there any info out there about real production experiences with…

I understand that these two languages have a completely different design philosophy and can't be compared apple to apple. But purely from an industry adoption point of view which one is more likely to be the winner ?

What are some good interview questions for a kernel developer in the networking area (bridging, Layer2, netfilter/iptables, IP routing, Layer 3 and TCP/UDP stack)

I am interested in things like the underlying network plumbing (is it vxlan), safe guards to prevent packets from going to wrong VPCs, corner case cases that doesn't work well with VPC etc.

In enterprises big & small VMs have become ubiquitous. Ecosystem around the OpenStack still seems to be pretty fragmented with not many good enterprise ready end to end solutions. For the IT Orgs is it all VMWare or…

As of May 2016 what is the state of OpenStack deployment in enterprises ? Does it have a chance against the general trend towards AWS, GCE and Azure ?