2011

Perl 5.16 and beyond

Jesse Vincent, then Perl 5 pumpking, lays out his vision for Perl 5.16 and the modernized release cadence: monthly dev releases, an annual stable cycle, a rotating release engineer roster, and a 'use 5.16' forward-compatibility declaration mechanism. Delivered as a four-stop summer 2011 tour: YAPC::NA (Asheville, June 27–29), OSCON (Portland, July 25–29), YAPC::Europe (Riga, August 15–17), and YAPC::Asia (Tokyo, October 14–15). The Tokyo recording is the surviving video; the OSCON deck (slideshare.net/obrajesse/oscon-2011-perl-516-and-beyond) is the surviving slides.

Dancing App Stores

“There are many, many Android App Stores — and most of the revenue still concentrates in Google's. Distributing across all of them means managing distinct processes and policies for marginal returns. ”

RT4 — The whole sordid story

“RT scales from a laptop deployment to handling nearly one ticket per second in production — bug tracking, helpdesk, accounts payable, even youth counseling. ”