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Peculiar Books Reviewed: Charles Perrow's "Normal Accidents"
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Peculiar Books Reviewed: Charles Perrow's "Normal Accidents"

Wheels roll over feet, kitchen knives slice into fingers, heaters catch houses on fire, software crashes losing work and chemical plants blow up. Each of these things is man-made and each is performing actions they were not intended to perform. As Charles Perrow terms it in Normal Accidents: Living with
May 1, 2014 5 min read
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Dropwizard's Health Checks, Metrics and Operation Focus

I got a chance, finally, to play with Yammer's Dropwizard [http://dropwizard.codahale.com/] a bit this weekend. It's an interesting library/mini-framework that does so very much to showcase the best of RESTful API development in Java, sans all the Object Oriented Dark Ages ride-alongs: not much XML beyond
Dec 30, 2012 2 min read
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