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electrum / gist:814835
Created February 7, 2011 17:58
Amazon S3 Design Principles

Amazon S3 Design Principles

The following principles of distributed system design were used to meet Amazon S3 requirements:

Decentralization: Use fully decentralized techniques to remove scaling bottlenecks and single points of failure.

Asynchrony: The system makes progress under all circumstances.

Autonomy: The system is designed such that individual components can make decisions based on local information.

@jeromyanglim
jeromyanglim / example-r-markdown.rmd
Created May 17, 2012 04:23
Example of using R Markdown
This post examines the features of [R Markdown](http://www.rstudio.org/docs/authoring/using_markdown)
using [knitr](http://yihui.name/knitr/) in Rstudio 0.96.
This combination of tools provides an exciting improvement in usability for
[reproducible analysis](http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/15006/183).
Specifically, this post
(1) discusses getting started with R Markdown and `knitr` in Rstudio 0.96;
(2) provides a basic example of producing console output and plots using R Markdown;
(3) highlights several code chunk options such as caching and controlling how input and output is displayed;
(4) demonstrates use of standard Markdown notation as well as the extended features of formulas and tables; and
(5) discusses the implications of R Markdown.
@gear11
gear11 / main.py
Created December 17, 2013 14:54
Simple Python proxy server based on Flask and Requests. See: http:/python-proxy-server/gear11.com/2013/12/python-proxy-server/
"""
A simple proxy server. Usage:
http://hostname:port/p/(URL to be proxied, minus protocol)
For example:
http://localhost:8080/p/www.google.com
"""
package improving
package jvm
package pool
import JvmConstants._
/*
4.2.2 Unqualified Names
Names of methods, fields and local variables are stored as unqualified
names. Unqualified names must not contain the characters '.', ';', '['