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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?
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xero / irc.md
Last active July 10, 2024 12:09
irc cheat sheet

IRC Reference

Not intended as a guide for newbies, more like a "cheat sheet" for the somewhat experienced IRC user, especially one who wields some power over a channel.

The Basics

  • /join #channel
    • Joins the specified channel.
  • /part #channel
  • Leaves the specified channel.
@kentcdodds
kentcdodds / eslint-changed.sh
Last active April 15, 2021 03:36
Shell script to lint only changed files to be used as a githook (specific to my project)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
# allow being run from somewhere other than the git rootdir
gitroot=$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)
# default gitroot to . if we're already at the rootdir
gitroot=${gitroot:-.};
nm_bin=$gitroot/node_modules/.bin
@leonardofed
leonardofed / README.md
Last active July 19, 2024 17:51
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications


A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.


FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@yossorion
yossorion / what-i-wish-id-known-about-equity-before-joining-a-unicorn.md
Last active June 25, 2024 07:29
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

@zubaer-ahammed
zubaer-ahammed / Reset MySQL Root Password in Mac OS.md
Last active July 23, 2024 07:29
Reset MySQL Root Password in Mac OS

Reset mysql root password in Mac OS:

First Stop MySQL:

  1. Go to: 'System Preferences' >> 'MySQL' and stop MySQL

OR,

  1. sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
  2. sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop
@WHYjun
WHYjun / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active December 16, 2020 00:31 — forked from tsiege/The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

Studying for a Tech Interview Sucks, so Here's a Cheat Sheet to Help

This cheatsheet is written by @TSiege. You can check the original version of cheatsheet at link

This list is meant to be both quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.

Data Structure Basics

Array

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)

Name
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cachereference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us