heathermiller

This cheat sheet originated from the forum, credits to Laurent Poulain. We copied it and changed or added a few things.

Evaluation Rules

• Call by value: evaluates the function arguments before calling the function
• Call by name: evaluates the function first, and then evaluates the arguments if need be

    def example = 2      // evaluated when called
    val example = 2      // evaluated immediately

garnaat

In [1]: policy = """{
   ...:   "Statement":[{
   ...:     "Effect":"Allow",
   ...:     "Action":["s3:*"],
   ...:     "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::mybucket"]}]}"""
In [2]: import boto
In [4]: c = boto.connect_iam()
In [5]: instance_profile = c.create_instance_profile('myinstanceprofile')
In [6]: role = c.create_role('myrole')
In [7]: c.add_role_to_instance_profile('myinstanceprofile', 'myrole')

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD