somebox

Why NOT to Cache

I’ve worked over the years on a lot of projects, with many teams. Frontend, backend, mobile, and so forth. One topic that always comes up - caching. Developers love to talk about the topic, and are excited to add seemingly low-cost performance enhancers to their architecture and code base. However, as Martin Fowler and many others have pointed out, caching is evil. It’s one of the hardest problems in computer science to solve.

The typical pattern is to take a slow request - say, an API response - and store it in a local cache (perhaps to disk, or Redis). The implementation goes like this: the simple approach is to do a get/set cache lookup. When the user needs the data, check if it’s in the cache. If it’s not, or it has expired, then fetch the latest value and store it in the cache.

For apps, one side effect of this approach is degraded experience for some small group of users. For example, a web app needs to access a slow resource that takes 2 seconds to respond. With caching used, tha

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

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

Bekbolatov

Clean tmux cheat-sheet

By resources

sessions

list-sessions        ls         -- List sessions managed by server
new-session          new        -- Create a new session

bpierre

Switch To Vim For Good

NOTE: This guide has moved to https://github.com/bpierre/switch-to-vim-for-good

This guide is coming from an email I used to send to newcomers to Vim. It is not intended to be a complete guide, it is about how I switched myself.

My decision to switch to Vim has been made a long time ago. Coming from TextMate 1, I wanted to learn an editor that is Open Source (so I don’t lose my time learning a tool that can be killed), cross platform (so I can use it everywhere), and powerful enough (so I won’t regret TextMate). For these reasons, Vim has always been the editor I wanted to learn, but it took me several years before I did it in a way that works for me. I tried to switch progressively, using the Janus Vim distribution for a few months, then got back to using TextMate 2 for a time, waiting for the next attempt… here is what finally worked for me.

Original gist with comments: https://gist.github.com/bpierre/0a0025d348b6001394e0

speric

Chapter 1 - Object Oriented Design

The purpose of design is to allow you to do design later, and it's primary goal is to reduce the cost of change.

SOLID Design:

• Single Responsibility Principle: a class should have only a single responsibility
• Open-Closed Principle: Software entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification (inherit instead of modifying existing classes).
• Liskov Substitution: Objects in a program should be replaceable with instances of their subtypes without altering the correctness of that program.
• Interface Segregation: Many client-specific interfaces are better than one general-purpose interface.

danhunter

c_path=`tput setaf 6`
c_stgd=`tput setaf 2`
c_unstgd=`tput setaf 9`
c_sgr0=`tput sgr0`
 
parse_git_branch ()
{
  if git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1
  then
          gitver=$(git branch 2>/dev/null| sed -n '/^\*/s/^\* //p')

AhmedElSharkasy

Rails as it has never been before :)

Rails 3 AntiPatterns, Useful snippets and Recommended Refactoring.

Note: Some of them are collected from different online resources/posts/blogs with some tweaks.

pcreux

group :production do
  gem 'unicorn'

  # Enable gzip compression on heroku, but don't compress images.
  gem 'heroku-deflater'

  # Heroku injects it if it's not in there already
  gem 'rails_12factor'
end

dopiaza

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: slackpost <token> <channel> <message>

# Enter the name of your slack host here - the thing that appears in your URL:
# https://slackhost.slack.com/
slackhost=PUT_YOUR_HOST_HERE

token=$1