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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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# Configuration file for runtime kernel parameters.
# See sysctl.conf(5) for more information.

# Protection from SYN flood attack.
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

# See evil packets in your logs.
#net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1

# Disable packet forwarding.

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer