acolyer

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?

unclejamal

PODCASTS:
http://rubyrogues.com/ - about programming in general, not always Ruby-specific (below a list of some episodes I found good, among many others)
- http://rubyrogues.com/131-rr-how-to-learn/ - episode about learning
- http://rubyrogues.com/023-rr-book-club-smalltalk-best-practice-patterns-with-kent-beck/ - episode with Kent Beck
- http://rubyrogues.com/068-rr-book-club-growing-object-oriented-software-guided-by-tests/ - episode about the GOOS book

http://pragprog.com/podcasts - about programming in general
- includes interviews with UncleBob, Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, etc...

http://www.functionalgeekery.com/ - about functional programming

jimbojsb

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

zhengjia

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