Stories by xal

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

SAP Acquires Hybris

Cloudera Impala 1.0: SQL on Hadoop

Cause of LED efficiency droop finally revealed

What's new in Mysql 5.6

What it’s like to work with Mark Pincus

Pick your compass metric

Email transparency

Own3d.tv shutting down

Shopify's killer 2012

Shopify sells 1 billion worth of products

NY Times: Jack Dorsey Role At Twitter Reduced

Kosmos distributed file system

Dota2 uses Protocol Buffers as replay format

Shopify's 1m competition

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Reportedly Has Cancer

Canadian VCs are being cut loose, and that’s a good thing

Rob Pike on designing a concurrent lexer in Go

I have a business idea

Garbage collection in Ruby 2.0

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