Open Whisper Systems >> Blog >> Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
Very interesting post on federation vs centralization for new services:
One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
(tags: development encryption communication network-effects federation signal ip protocols networking smtp platforms)
CD at LMAX: Testing into Production and Back Again
Chock-full of excellent build/test ideas from LMAX’s Continuous Delivery setup. Lots of good ideas to steal