What I Learned At MicroConf 2018
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[…] because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And […] it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.Early last year, I started working on a side project to create a websocket server from scratch. I wanted to know what the technical limitations were to serve millions of concurrent connections at scale. Well, I found my answer(s), and along the way I picked up a few extra problems that needed to be solved. The end result was recv.io (receive eye oh), a globally distributed pub/sub network that doesn’t lose your messages.Later that year, I decided that I should quit my job (...)