Push-down automations in Rust
Push-down automatons, essentially finite state machines with a Stack, are in adddition to being theoretically interesting useful for a number of tasks, such as ensuring that parenthesises are balanced in a string
Will vs. Technology
Where I, William Rudenmalm, document my quixotic struggle against technology.
Building a Kafka based key-value store in Rust - Part 2: Implementation
The second part in the series implmeneting a kafka based key-value store in Rust. In this part we finally start writing code and implement the logic for storage as well as Kafka.
Building a Kafka based key-value store in Rust - Part 1: Design
In this first part of a series about building a key-value store in Rust with Kafka and sled. We completed the design of the service and reason about the choice of tech.
Picking a Tech Stack - Part 1 identifying the must-have criteria
One of the first things that you have to do when embarking on a new project is choosing the set of technologies - the tech stack - that you will be using. This article discusses the principles to keep in mind when making this critical decision.
Functional programming in Java8: Filters
Java 8 adds the new Stream APIs to the Java language and runtime. These APIs increase the succinctness of the Java languages and making it almost as expressive as many dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python, without sacrificing Java's compile-time type checking. This article discusses how these new features can be used.
Never write another for-loop: Replacing Java 8 for-loops with forEach calls using the Stream API
Java 8 and JDK 1.8 introduces a new functional programming concept called a stream to java
Writing good React components
This article looks at best-practices for writing React components
The Implicit — Explicit Gap
A discussion of the connection of Implicit and Explicit processing informs UI design
k-means clustering in R
This post documents who to perform K-means clustering in R
Bower.js and the Future of Client-side Modularity
Twitter recently released Bower, a dependency manager for client-side JavaScript. This article discusses how Bower compares to other dependency managers and how this release affects the client-side JavaScript space as a whole.