Nick Telford
Systems Developer at DataSift with a passion for software architecture and distributed systems.About
Username: nicktelford
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Reading, England, UK
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The LMAX Architecture
"After reading about Disruptors (http://t.co/BDFdOSFB) I can't help but feel that Apache Kafka can be thought of as a distributed Disruptor." - view status
3rd Feb, 2012 -
Pink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"@newyorkgeek http://t.co/XFSr11Lh It's a bit of a grey area (pun intended) because it's so subjective." - view status
30th Jan, 2012 -
BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula 1 | Mercedes take ownership of Brawn
"The season may be over but there's still plenty of exciting news to be had! I like the idea of Rosberg heading to a decent team, he's always struck me as having a lot of promise. Certainly will be…" - view comment
16th Nov, 2009 -
UK government database of all 1,841,177 post codes together with precise geographic coordinates and…
"Not only does this give developers unlimited access to this information it also contains other important information like their postal area, council ward, NHS code etc." - view comment
16th Sep, 2009 -
London Twitter Festival Ends in Chaos as Crowd Clashes With Facebook Enthusiasts « The Oracle Speaks
"I heard that the Facebook crowd were mounted, on trained Friend-Feed addicts!" - view comment
11th Sep, 2009 -
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
"This is pretty awesome. Clearly it's a jab at TechCrunch's policy of ignoring embargoes." - view comment
11th Sep, 2009 -
Why 09/09/09 Is So Special - Yahoo! News
"The big problem is embedded systems. The lifespan of an embedded system is significantly longer than most desktop/enterprise systems which means that there will likely be a very significant number of…" - view comment
9th Sep, 2009"Computers record dates in the number of seconds since 1st January 1970. On that day the maximum possible value will be reached and it'll roll around to 1st January 1901. It's a far more widespread…" - view comment
9th Sep, 2009"The millennium and 6/6/6 both passed without event, which puts paid to any myths about cataclysms being linked to such dates. Although 19/01/2038 will likely be an eventful day. I'm going going to…" - view comment
9th Sep, 2009 -
TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories on Twitter
"When you're logged in to TweetMeme, the button (be it on TweetMeme or another website) will allow you to "one-click" tweet. Tweeting instantly without taking you to Twitter and changing to "tweeted"…" - view comment
9th Sep, 2009 -
j.mp, a simple url shortener powered by bit.ly
"I'd say that this just compensates for the ever-lengthening path on bit.ly URLs. Overall, it's no shorter than bit.ly was a year ago." - view comment
4th Sep, 2009 -
Michael Jackson's death was a homicide, coroner rules - CNN.com
"Wow, I really didn't see this coming. I just assumed his lifestyle had finally gotten the better of him! I wonder what his doctor's motives were, or if it was just an accident." - view comment
28th Aug, 2009

6th Feb, 2012