macintux

• https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html
• http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-engineer/
• https://github.com/palvaro/CMPS290S-Winter16/blob/master/readings.md
• http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html
• http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html
• http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/06/distributed-systems-archaeology-works-cited.html
• http://rxin.github.io/db-readings/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
• http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/papers/
• http://scalingsystems.com/2011/09/07/reading-list-for-distributed-systems/

gubatron

How to configure multiple deploy keys for different private github repositories on the same computer without using ssh-agent

Let's say alice is a github.com user, with 2 or more private repositories repoN. For this example we'll work with just two repositories named repo1 and repo2

https://github.com/alice/repo1

https://github.com/alice/repo2

You need to be to pull from these repositories without entering a passwords probably on a server, or on multiple servers.

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

jessejanderson

Blogs

• Understanding Elixir Macros, Part 1 by Saša Jurić (more: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6)

Books

• Metaprogramming Elixir by Chris McCord

Official Documentation

charlesroper

How to setup a practically free CDN using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,

benwilson512

# TODO: Extract into it's own library
defmodule AbsintheSocket do
  require Logger
  alias Phoenix.Channels.GenSocketClient
  @behaviour GenSocketClient

  @control_topic "__absinthe__:control"

  defdelegate fetch(term, key), to: Map
  defdelegate get(term, key, default), to: Map

PJUllrich

Big-O Time Complexities for Elixir data structures

Map [1]

Operation	Time Complexity
Access	O(log n)
Search	O(log n)
Insertion	O(n) for <= 32 elements, O(log n) for > 32 elements [2]
Deletion	O(n) for <= 32 elements, O(log n) for > 32 elements