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Apr 28, 2015
I was experimenting Apache Camel and ServiceMix in a setting with multiple servers. Camel is a routing engine which implements enterprise integration patterns and ServiceMix can be called an enterprise service bus (ESB) which packages Camel as a router, ActiveMQ as a JMS queue, and Karaf as an OSGi container. All established open-source software released under the friendly Apache umbrella.
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Apr 13, 2015
Last year during Easter break I made my first skiing trip to an area without lifts. I had heard stories and seen pictures of Lyngen and knew it was an amazing place, and it was. Up to 1800 meters high, snowy mountains rise almost directly from the open Arctic Ocean and make skiing and views truly memorable. The drive from Helsinki takes around 16 hours which was doable with some sleep in the lofty estate Volvo and an audio book.
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Mar 25, 2015
Flash Boys is the first book I read from Michael Lewis, the well-known author writing non-fiction about things close to the Wall Street. The book covers several fascinating stories from the secretive world of high-frequency trading (HFT). In one of them a visionary entrepreneur builds a straight cable from the Chicago future exchanges to the New York stock exchanges in order to win a few milliseconds compared to existing connections between the cities.
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Mar 18, 2015
It all started with the idea that I want a place on the web to publish something of my own.
Not long ago I had discussed with a colleague about static site generators and how they compare with content management systems.
One conclusion was that for relatively simple sites whose appearance do not depend on the user, a statically generated site could be superior.
The well-known benefits include need for a simpler infrastructure, and faster page load times.
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