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Beware the Two-Tap Rule

I’m a fan of Yahoo for news and email, but I’m not a fan of their new “two-tap rule.” The rule states that once a user is in a Yahoo application, it should take only two taps to do anything the user wants to do. Fast-to-use apps are the goal here. The two-tap rule sounds a lot like our field’s misguided “three-click rule,” which Expero cautioned against in 2007.

JanusGraph Community Meetup

This meetup will focus on how users are executing OLAP workloads against their JanusGraph data.

Command Objects or Interfaces?

Every distributed system eventually requires messages to be written on the wire to be transmitted from one machine to another. In many cases these messages are hidden magic. Using WCF web services, or Thrift RPC, code-generated proxies make remote calls look like function calls.