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Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# usage: ./pdf-ocr.sh scanned.pdf
#
# Download this file
# Make it executable:
#   chmod +x pdf-ocr.sh
# Run it on your example file
#   ./pdf-ocr.sh scanned.pdf
set -euf -o pipefail -o xtrace

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#!/bin/bash

# Pushes to origin and opens a github compare view of it to speed up PR
# creation.
#
# To install add to $PATH with executable permission and run
#
#   git config --global alias.pr '!github-push-pr'
#

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#!/bin/sh
# Configure homebrew permissions to allow multiple users on MAC OSX.
# Any user from the admin group will be able to manage the homebrew and cask installation on the machine.

# allow admins to manage homebrew's local install directory
chgrp -R admin /usr/local/*
chmod -R g+w /usr/local/*

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The brew versions command has been removed. The instructions are no longer valid.

Prerequisits

Make sure you don't have any Python 3.x installed:

$ brew uninstall python3

Then cd into your brew directory, this is /usr/local normally:

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Packages

• lxml - Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
• boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services
• Django - Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
• Fabric - Library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration task.
• PyMongo - Tools for working with MongoDB, and is the recommended way to work with MongoDB from Python.
• Celery - Task queue to distribute work across threads or machines.
• pytz - pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.4 or higher.

Guides

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Libraries

• jQuery - The de-facto library for the modern age. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
• Backbone - Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• AngularJS - Conventions based MVC framework for HTML5 apps.
• Underscore - Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• lawnchair - Key/value store adapter for indexdb, localStorage