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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."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?

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http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/integration-tests-scam
http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/2010/09/14/when-is-it-safe-to-introduce-test-doubles
http://youtu.be/yTkzNHF6rMs
http://pyvideo.org/video/1670/boundaries
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/enumerators
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortsAndAdaptersArchitecture
http://www.confreaks.com/videos/977-goruco2012-hexagonal-rails
http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1255-rockymtnruby2012-to-mock-or-not-to-mock

alexmoore

L1 cache reference                  0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                   5 ns
L2 cache reference                  7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock                   25 ns
Main memory reference               100 ns
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy        3,000 ns
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network   20,000 ns
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory  250,000 ns
Round trip within same datacenter   500,000 ns
Disk seek                           10,000,000 ns

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

1. Select a particular experience to pursue.
2. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achievement unlocked!)
3. Reflect on that experience. Really soak it in. Maybe a blog post would be in order?
4. Return to Step 1, this time selecting a new experience.

This gist is a fork of the gist from this blog post.