ptarjan

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

rondy

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.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

mw3i

'''
Proof of Concept: 

Django devs built an ORM that seems way more straightforward than many existing tools. This class lets you leverage the django-orm without any project settings or other aspects of a django setup.

There are probably weak points and functionality missing, but it seems like a relatively intuitive proof of concept
'''
import os
import django
from django.conf import settings

tomysmile

type below:

brew update
brew install redis

To have launchd start redis now and restart at login:

brew services start redis

jvns

Ruby and Python profilers

CPU profilers

Python

• cProfile
• https://github.com/bdarnell/plop (blog post)
• https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler
• https://github.com/uber/pyflame (blog post)

lavoiesl

// gcc -O2 -Wall -pedantic process-mysqldump.c -o process-mysqldump
// Usage: cat dump.sql | process-mysqldump
//   Or : process-mysqldump dump.sql

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>

#define BUFFER 100000

oleq

What is this all about?

This tutorial will turn your Raspberry PI into a simple Bluetooth audio receiver, which plays music through connected speakers. It's like a regular car audio system, but it can be used anywhere and it's a good value.

   Audio source (i.e. smartphone) 
                |
                v
 (((  Wireless Bluetooth Channel  )))
 |

perrygeo

Avoiding padding errors with Python's base64 encoding

>>> import base64
>>> data = '{"u": "test"}'
>>> code = base64.b64encode(data)
>>> code
'eyJ1IjogInRlc3QifQ=='

boxrick

#!/bin/bash
# Script to cleanup GCP virtual machine images

# How many images of this family do we wish to retain
desired_images=8
image_project="PROJECTHERE"

clean_images()
{
  # Function to clean up images, set the default family to megatron base

gmr

"""
Minecraft Server Log Time Spent Ranking

"""
__author__ = 'Gavin M. Roy'
__email__ = 'gavinmroy@gmail.com'
__since__ = '2012-01-05'

import datetime
import operator