Opinion

Opinion

Chris Langton's views and opinions are generally based on personal experience and should not be associated to any other person or organisation.
Jun
17
Only inexperienced developers use infinite loops

Only inexperienced developers use infinite loops

A language agnostic look at this common programming pattern. My hope is that once you've read my post
8 min read
Sep
01
Strategy To Manage Cache At Scale

Strategy To Manage Cache At Scale

One of the major challenges we face as modern developers in our infrastructure is how do we cache effectively so
12 min read
Jun
19

Mobile Web: Cost of JavaScript Frameworks

In many of my previous posts I've discussed the importance of mobile, and the company where I am
5 min read
Jun
14

When is consistent an anti-pattern

As my click-bait title suggests, I'm going to explore when the idea of writing consistent code can be
2 min read
Jun
03

Concurrency safe IOPS efficient MySQL with PHP PDO

The problem I've experience using many solutions for MySQL like Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Rackspace, Azure, and
10 min read
May
19

Facebook engineers are the problem with software

Before I get into the observation that Facebook engineers are hurting the software development space unintentionally let me share with
4 min read