acolyer

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?

kosta

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Class that copies stdin to stdout, as compained about as not being cleanly
 * writable in Java on Hacker News.
 * In real code, you would just write IOUtils.copy(System.in, System.out),
 * which does basically the same thing.
 * This does not catch any exceptions as a) this is just an "exercise" and
 * b) all we could do with them is pretty-print them. So let the runtime 
 * print them for you.

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           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
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

stran12

How to install cGit on Nginx (Ubuntu server)

Step-by-step installtion of cGit on nginx without funky rewrite rules.

Pre-requisites

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