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euank / Dockerfile
Last active March 14, 2023 23:40
ECS / EC2 Metadata entrypoint example
FROM golang:1.4
COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
COPY main.go main.go
RUN go build -o main main.go
RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
EXPOSE 8080
ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["./main"]
@wilsonpage
wilsonpage / reqUrl.js
Created November 25, 2011 14:38
A function I made that wraps the node http.request function to make it a little more friendly. In my case I am using it for API route testing.
// module dependencies
var http = require('http'),
url = require('url');
/**
* UrlReq - Wraps the http.request function making it nice for unit testing APIs.
*
* @param {string} reqUrl The required url in any form
* @param {object} options An options object (this is optional)
@ianbarber
ianbarber / RetrieveAccessTokenActivity.java
Created March 17, 2014 20:22
A quick example of retrieving an access token with GoogleAuthUtil
package com.google.devrel.samples.gmstest.app;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
@juliandunn
juliandunn / postgresql-on-aws-tips.md
Last active September 27, 2022 10:55
Notes on PostgreSQL performance optimization on RDS

Deep Dive: PostgreSQL on AWS

When loading data

  • disable backups (backup_retention=0)
  • disable multi-AZ and autovacuum
  • pg_dump -Fc (compressed) and pg_restore -j (parallel)
  • Increase maintenance_work_mem
@markrendle
markrendle / explanation.md
Last active July 3, 2022 07:56
Why I was previously not a fan of Apache Kafka

Update, September 2016

OK, you can pretty much ignore what I wrote below this update, because it doesn't really apply anymore.

I wrote this over a year ago, and at the time I had spent a couple of weeks trying to get Kafka 0.8 working with .NET and then Node.js with much frustration and very little success. I was rather angry. It keeps getting linked, though, and just popped up on Hacker News, so here's sort of an update, although I haven't used Kafka at all this year so I don't really have any new information.

In the end, we managed to get things working with a Node.js client, although we continued to have problems, both with our code and with managing a Kafka/Zookeeper cluster generally. What made it worse was that I did not then, and do not now, believe that Kafka was the correct solution for that particular problem at that particular company. What they were trying to achieve could have been done more simply with any number of other messaging systems, with a subscriber reading messages off and writing

@briandoll
briandoll / A_toast_to_you.md
Last active March 19, 2022 01:17
Toasts! - scripts to convert images attached to GitHub issues into an animated gif for serious celebratory purposes

To toast:

  • Make sure you have ImageMagick installed (brew install imagemagick)
  • Change line 7 of toast.rb to the repository name you're working with
  • toast!
$ bundle install
$ ./get_token [user] [pass]
$ export GHUSER=[myuser]
@rgrove
rgrove / Makefile
Created July 30, 2011 22:01
Simple Makefile to minify CSS and JS.
# Patterns matching CSS files that should be minified. Files with a -min.css
# suffix will be ignored.
CSS_FILES = $(filter-out %-min.css,$(wildcard \
public/css/*.css \
public/css/**/*.css \
))
# Patterns matching JS files that should be minified. Files with a -min.js
# suffix will be ignored.
JS_FILES = $(filter-out %-min.js,$(wildcard \
@rcullito
rcullito / gist:cd4513766e112387b9c8
Created May 6, 2014 01:51
ElasticSearch Fuzzy Query, Favor Exact Matches
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"_all": search_term
}
},
{
@erans
erans / gmail_email.py
Created July 17, 2011 07:45
Check if an Email address is Gmail or Google Apps for your domain
import sys
import re
import dns.resolver # Requires dnspython
email_host_regex = re.compile(".*@(.*)$")
gmail_servers_regex = re.compile("(.google.com.|.googlemail.com.)$", re.IGNORECASE)
def is_gmail(email):
""" Returns True if the supplied Email address is a @gmail.com Email or is a Google Apps for your domain - hosted Gmail address
Checks are performed by checking the DNS MX records """
@tmpvar
tmpvar / .gitignore
Created July 12, 2011 07:19
A console.log implementation that plays "nice" with large amounts of data. It Keeps node alive until the output has flushed to the screen.
gmon.out
v8.log