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acolyer / service-checklist.md
Last active July 10, 2024 05:13
Internet Scale Services Checklist

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

Basic tenets

  • Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
  • Have we kept things as simple as possible?
@afeld
afeld / gist:5704079
Last active November 27, 2023 15:43
Using Rails+Bower on Heroku
@joshnesbitt
joshnesbitt / migrate.sh
Created November 6, 2012 16:23
A handy script to stream a MySQL dump into another database.
#!/bin/bash
SOURCE_USER=user
SOURCE_HOST=localhost
SOURCE_PASSWORD='password'
SOURCE_DATABASE=database
TARGET_USER=user
TARGET_HOST=localhost
TARGET_PASSWORD='password'
@travisjeffery
travisjeffery / init.el
Created November 27, 2011 23:39
nodejs, javascript indentation for emacs
;; Add this to your Emacs configuration to have proper Nodejs
;; indentation with javascript when using `js-mode'. —Travis Jeffery
(add-hook 'js-mode-hook (lambda ()
(defun js--proper-indentation (parse-status)
"Return the proper indentation for the current line."
(save-excursion
(back-to-indentation)
(cond
((looking-at ",")
(let ((spos
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')