michaelfairley
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Comment · 5 years ago
Durability is not availability.
Comment · 10 years ago
baz(foo).expect(format!("Cannot do baz, foo={}", foo)).bar().expect("Cannot do bar");Comment · 13 years ago
Goroutines are green threads[1], and thus are threads, just like Ruby 1.8s threads are threads.
Also, you can easily run 10s of thousands of kernel threads (provided you decrease the threads' stack size).
Comment · 13 years ago
Venmo now has payout business accounts: https://venmo.com/payouts
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
The "backwards-incompatible change" was part of a security fix, not an unrelated non-security change.
Comment · 13 years ago
Braintree.js cuts down PCI scope as much as tokenization. We've worked with banks and auditors to make sure that this doesn't add any headaches for our merchants.
Comment · 13 years ago
We recommend that you don't store or log credit card data encrypted with Braintree.js.
As far as PCI compliance, Braintree.js minimizes your PCI scope as much as tokenization. As long as you serve your site over SSL and maintain adequate security around access to servers, administrative passwords, etc., when using Braintree.js, you'll fall under SAQ A (the lowest possible PCI scope for online merchants).
Comment · 13 years ago
Closing the server is easy; making sure all in flight requests finish successfully, not so easy.
Comment · 13 years ago
My favorite – the method that determines the size of the connection pool: http://golang.org/src/pkg/database/sql/sql.go#L227
Comment · 13 years ago
I've run Go in production for a web application, and I'll say that Go is not a great choice for this task. The built in HTTP server doesn't have a way to shut down gracefully, there's not a good zero-downtime restart story, and the standard library SQL package (and abstractions on top of it) has some nasty warts that only show up under concurrent load.
If you build a webapp in Go, be prepared to spend a lot of time monkeying around with problems that are solved issues on most other platforms.
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