Brewer's CAP Theorem

Starting with the punk rock creation story, Brewer’s CAP Theorem discusses the fascinating, proven theorem that you can’t have all three of consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance in a distributed system.

A very interesting follow-up is: A CAP Solution (Proving Brewer Wrong). It approaches the problem by dynamically guaranteeing different CAP properties instead of trying to guarantee them all at once.

Released Virtualenv Burrito 2

This Python breakfast just got tastier. A major update to the way Virtualenv Burrito works was released this weekend. There is now full support for extension points and a less hackish way of managing the packages1 under the hood.