Subject
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Messaging
Bookmarks
Texts: Unified Messaging Inbox
Texts is a unified messaging app that combines iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter DMs, Signal, and other messaging platforms into a single inbox. Addresses the fragmentation problem of having conversations scattered across 5+ apps.
Message Systems in Programming: Callbacks, Events, Pub/Sub, Promises, and Streams
Jesse Warden's survey of async communication patterns in programming — callbacks, events, pub/sub, promises, and streams. A clear taxonomy of a domain where the terminology is often muddled, especially relevant to JavaScript's async evolution in 2014.
Introduction to Apache Kafka (TriHUG, July 2013)
TriHUG July 2013 talk introducing Apache Kafka — the distributed log system LinkedIn built and open-sourced. Caught at the moment Kafka was still an unfamiliar tool to most data engineers, before it became the de-facto streaming backbone of the modern data stack.