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Loadshedding

Data File Links

These are behind a CDN, so have at them! Poll, ping, hit them as often as you need to!

• Current CoCT loadshedding status
• CoCT loadshedding schedule
• Current Eskom loadshedding status
• Eskom loadshedding schedule

PubSub Topics

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -x

black=$1
input_file=$2
start_line=$3
end_line=$4

# Read selected lines and write to tmpfile

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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?

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Introduction

• Add your project logo.
• Write a short introduction to the project.
• If you are using badges, add them here.

📒 Index

• About
• Usage
• Installation

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Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

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// URL for Jira's REST API for issues
var getIssueURL = "https://[Your Jira host]/rest/api/2/issue/";

// Personally I prefer the script to handle request failures, hence muteHTTPExceptions = true
var fetchArgs = {
  contentType: "application/json",
  headers: {"Authorization":"Basic [Your BASE64 Encoded user:pass]"},
  muteHttpExceptions : true
};

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Simple HTTP Server With Upload.

This module builds on BaseHTTPServer by implementing the standard GET
and HEAD requests in a fairly straightforward manner.

"""

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Steps to Install Hubot in Slack using Heroku

• Install Hubot locally
• Install Slack Adapter
• Configure integration on Slack
  • Go to [your-slack].slack.com/services/new/hubot
• Deploy to Heroku

If you want to rename the automatically generated heroku domain name:

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Running SmartOS under vmware Fusion

From https://gist.github.com/3050224

From http://blog.smartcore.net.au/smartos-the-basics/

1. Start by downloading the latest live image
2. Save this file in a permanent place since your setup will need to boot from it permanently
3. When you run the new VM wizard, select "Continue without disk" on the first screen of the wizard.
4. Select Sun Solaris / Solaris 10 64-bit on the next screen.

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#!/bin/bash
apt-get install -y curl unzip

mkdir -p /var/lib/consul
mkdir -p /usr/share/consul
mkdir -p /etc/consul/conf.d

curl -OL https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/0.8.5/consul_0.8.5_linux_amd64.zip
unzip consul_0.8.5_linux_amd64.zip
mv consul /usr/local/bin/consul