{"id":68,"date":"2008-01-07T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewansilver.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/7-january-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:44:18","slug":"7-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/7-january-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"7 January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/htbin-post\/mvis\/mvis?ID=676\">Computational Advertising<\/a> talk on Thursday Jan 10 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/glinden.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/upcoming-yahoo-talk-on-computational.html\">Greg<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erlang.se\/workshop\/2003\/paper\/mikesrationale.pdf\">&#8220;Why did we create <tag>Erlang<\/tag>&#8220;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/2008\/01\/03\/blekko\/\">competitor<\/a> (&#8230;sort of). <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.berkeley.edu\/~jcondit\/threads-hotos-2003.pdf\">Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers)<\/a> &#8211; an oldie but good to keep you on your toes. I have been seduced by <tag>event driven<\/tag> systems for a long time. I thought <a href=\"www.eecs.harvard.edu\/~mdw\/proj\/seda\/\"><tag>SEDA<\/tag><\/a> was just wonderful when I first read about it. <tag>Message passing<\/tag> systems seem so much nicer to me &#8211; even if a little too esoteric for most people sometimes. However it is important to remember that <tag>threads<\/tag> can work well (just that it seems that most threading implementations are not up to scratch. Shame).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computational Advertising talk on Thursday Jan 10 (via Greg) &#8220;Why did we create Erlang&#8220; Google has a new competitor (&#8230;sort of). Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) &#8211; an oldie but good to keep you on your toes. I have been seduced by event driven systems for a long time. I thought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/7-january-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 January 2008<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}