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This is going to be a short piece but I really want to share this because 1) I have to talk! It cost me several hours today to get a grip on this and 2) I couldn’t find any explanation of this Ansible behaviour on Stack Overflow or anywhere else (I actually posted this on SO to make sure it’s now there). By the way, I was reminded today that it can save you several hours of bug tracking, experimenting and general hair-tearing if you just know to ask....

I attended O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference in London this October and I thought I’d share my personal wrap-up of the most striking talks I’ve heard there. So buckle up for a tiny race through three days of talks and workshops: sarahjwells from Financial Times gave a great advice on how to fight code rot in your microservice architecture: Consider building overnight to fight code rot and keep services live and healthy....

I’ve worked for Just Software as a Software Developer for seven years and seven months this month. It was one of the most intense periods of my life, not only personally but also as a developer, an employee, a colleague, a consultant and an Open Source enthusiast. The time at that awesome company has shaped me extremely and I’m leaving my team there with mixed feelings. We left the shores of our safe jobs to build the best team collaboration software in the world....

Simon Phipps of Open Source fame at Sun and the Open Source Initiative wrote an interesting article titled GitHub needs to take open source seriously. He warns about the fact, that GitHub doesn’t have a mechanism that lets new projects choose a proper license for their work. Simon also cites a survey that says this: […] as many as half [of the projects] include no easily identifiable copyright licensing information. About 30 percent include some sort of licensing information in the source files, and around 20 percent have a clear license or notice file that makes it obvious under what terms the code is made available....

Actually this is my reading list from the last several weeks. I haven’t had the time to write these down, though, since we were preparing for ICNP 2013. Since me and my teammate are developing an overlay P2P network for Browsers we are especially interested in implementation patterns for such overlays. One very well-known paper is the one from Dabek et al. titled “Towards a Common API for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays”....