cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

In distributed computer systems, Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a characteristic of a system that tolerates the class of failures known as the Byzantine Generals' Problem ; for which there is an unsolvability proof. The Byzantine Generals' Problem. On July 5th 1982, Leslie Lamport (initial LaTeX developer, Microsoft Researcher and winner of the 2013 Turing Award), Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease published a paper named The Byzantine Generals' Problem.

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Professor Beekums

JUNE 11, 2017

Trying to meet deadlines on a software project is extremely challenging. Estimating software is inherently difficult because writing code is not like working on an assembly line. It’s more like writing a book. You can rush writing a book, but you pay the cost of continuity issues, poor grammar, half baked plots, and undeveloped characters. In software all of those thing manifest in the form of bugs or a product that just doesn’t work.

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The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 14, 2017

I am pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast is now available to download from all the popular podcasting networks. In this episode titled, Object Storage for Application Developers , I’m joined by Krishna Srinivas from Minio to talk about what object storage is and the various solutions that are available. Episode #14 can be downloaded for free from iTunes , Pocket Casts , and every other popular network, but it can also be heard below.

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The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 12, 2017

I’ve been developing with NativeScript for a few years now, but only recently have I started working with the various services offered by Google Play. Using a single Google Play service such as Google Analytics works great, but as soon as you start adding more, you’ll start noticing Android conflicts during the build process. Different plugins have different requirements on the underlying library versions.

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