God I Love Lisp

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AMQP

That ACM Queue pdf I linked to in my next-most-recent post also has an article on messaging with the AMQP standard. I've not read it yet though. In case you are interested, here it is..... the PDF file.

Stonebraker

Get it while it's hottt... a simply dazzling and entertaining interview with Michael Stonebraker about all kinds of database topics and more. (Here is the pdf, other formats apparently not available yet. This may be a hole in their subscription service for current issues? Anyway.....)

One of the things I find fascinating is that we’ve been writing software for 30 years and the tools we have to create reliable software are not significantly dissimilar from what we had a long time ago. Our ability to write reliable software is hardly any better now than it was then. That’s one of my pet peeves.