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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?

@halberom
halberom / playbook.yml
Created February 4, 2015 21:08
ansible - example using facts of other hosts
---
- hosts: dbservers
gather_facts: true # default
# don't do anything here, just want to populate all the facts about the dbservers
- hosts: webservers
tasks:
- name: do something with a db server fact
debug: var=hostvars[db_server]
@BastienClement
BastienClement / gist:b34f14dd93381498a7a1
Created June 17, 2014 17:20
The CASC (Content Addressable Storage Container) Filesystem
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| The CASC (Content Addressable Storage Container) Filesystem |
| Warlords of Draenor Alpha, Build 6.0.1.18125 |
| Written April 14th, 2014 by Caali |
| Version 1.2 |
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Distribution and reproduction of this specification are allowed without
limitation, as long as it is not altered. Quotation in other works is
freely allowed, as long as the source and author of the quote are stated.
@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

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  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs