November picks

Mon, Dec 1, 2014

“Random picks from all over the Internet”.

English

Articles

• Distributed Systems and the End of the API

  Long, but rewarding reading on topic of Distributed Programming, CALM theorem and CRDT.

• Game Day Exercises at Stripe: Learning from kill -9

  Real-life lessons from Stripe at the end of their game day. For those who are not familiar with this term, Game Day - a day when devops’es and developers get together and simulate failures in the network or other infrastructure problems (eg. high load).

• Discovering the Computer Science Behind Postgres Indexes

  Excellent series of articles that shed light on the work of Postgresql during request execution.

Videos

• Benchmarking You’re Doing It Wrong by Aysylu Greenberg, Google

  Good talk about all the tiny things that should be taken into account while doing benchmarks.

• Integrated Tests Are A Scam by J.B. Rainsberger

  Contract tests may be the better idea instead of integrated tests for some cases.

Russian

Презентации с Higload 2014

• Как PostgreSQL работает с диском, Илья Космодемьянский

  Маленькая, но добротная презентация о том, как правильно выбрать и подкрутить железо, файловую систему и ОС при работе с Postgresql.

• Sharding patterns, Константин Осипов и Алексей Рыбак

  Как надо и не надо шардить данные. Во второй части - как организовать роутинг. Все понятно без слов.