This is a talk I gave at the London Django Meetup on April 16th, 2019. The sypnosis is: We have all heard, or even lived, this story before – we had a greenfield project with an exciting business opportunity, so we chose Django with all of its batteries included to move fast and go to market quickly. Fortunately, things went very well, the business was booming and the company growing....
This is an article I wrote for Deliveroo Engineering discussing how to debug memory usage of a JVM-based application. Published on the company’s engineering blog.
This is an article I wrote for Memrise Engineering discussing the Hackathon culture we had when I was there. Published on the company’s engineering blog.
This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive comparison between the two styles of parsing, because parser combinator is certainly more powerful than plain regular expression, athough I have seen regular expressions that pretend to do just as much. Speaking of which, there is a recent story on Hacker News about an adventure in regex land which I highly recommend. The bad news is parser combinator isn’t part of the standard library in Python....
I have just finished working through Brent Yorgey’s Haskell class. Although I skipped one week on I/O, or rather I switched to some other exercises, because I disliked that particular assignment, I have to say this is probably the best free Haskell guide for beginners on the Internet. 1. Roadmap Before: Admittedlly, before starting this course, I had read through Learn you a Haskell without attempting anycode. Needless to say, nothing really stuck....