jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
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

pjobson

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

danielkhan

/**
 * Simple userland heapdump generator using v8-profiler
 * Usage: require('[path_to]/HeapDump').init('datadir')
 *
 * @module HeapDump
 * @type {exports}
 */

var fs = require('fs');
var profiler = require('v8-profiler');

bojand

Just documenting docs, articles, and discussion related to gRPC and load balancing.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/load-balancing.md

Seems gRPC prefers thin client-side load balancing where a client gets a list of connected clients and a load balancing policy from a "load balancer" and then performs client-side load balancing based on the information. However, this could be useful for traditional load banaling approaches in clound deployments.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grpc-io/8s7UHY_Q1po

gRPC "works" in AWS. That is, you can run gRPC services on EC2 nodes and have them connect to other nodes, and everything is fine. If you are using AWS for easy access to hardware then all is fine. What doesn't work is ELB (aka CLB), and ALBs. Neither of these support HTTP/2 (h2c) in a way that gRPC needs.

ibraheem4

Installing Postgres via Brew

Pre-Reqs

Brew Package Manager

In your command-line run the following commands:

1. brew doctor
2. brew update

rylev

Rust in Large Organizations

Initially taken by Niko Matsakis and lightly edited by Ryan Levick

Agenda

• Introductions
• Cargo inside large build systems
• FFI
• Foundations and financial support

AugustoCiuffoletti

Configuring a Raspberry as a UMTS concentrator for IoT

Browsing around I found the pieces of this solution, and I put them together in a guide.

I did not use the guide in the Raspberry site since I found it complicate to make it compatible with the mobile dongle, and I used instead the NetworkManager daemon, following many advices in that sense I found in technical blogs. The problem with this solution is that, as of now, it is incompatible with the native solution in the Raspian distribution, and so I removed some native network tools. This is relevant if you plan to alter the network configuraton of the Raspberry, but it is otherwise transparent.

The reason why I developed this solution is to have an autonomous IoT concentrator device; as succh, it does not provide Internet access to devices connected to the RPi through WiFi or wired Ethernet. In t