January picks

Tue, Jan 6, 2015

“Random picks from all over the Internet”.

English

Articles

• The Tao of HashiCorp by Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar

  If you are looking some very good principles for your team or organization, these from HashiCorp may give you the foundation.

• On-Disk Microbenchmark

  Nice benchmarks of LMDB, BerkeleyDB, Google LevelDB and 3 of its derivatives - Basho LevelDB, HyperLevelDB, and Facebook’s RocksDB, as well as TokuDB and WiredTiger. Worth seeing.

• Strong consistency models

  Well written article about program correctness and different strong consistency models and how they fit together.

Videos

• What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True by Greg Wilson

  When someone comes to you and says “I want to learn Haskell, because parallel programming is so easy in it” I want you to say “Where is the evidence? Has somebody tested it? Do we trust them?” Thoughtful talk on the software development.

Tools

Do you want to improve life of your Linux laptop’s battery? Here is a handy tool - tlp.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw

ThinkPads require an additional:

sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms

Russian

Презентации с Higload 2014

• Асинхронная репликация без цензуры: архитектурные проблемы MySQL, или почему PostgreSQL завоюет мир, Олег Царёв

  Всё что вы хотели знать про репликацию, но боялись спросить. Ещё один отличный доклад с Highload 2014.

• Клиентские приложения под нагрузкой и Анатомия веб-сервиса 2.0, Андрей Смирнов

  Пара презентаций от Андрея Смирнова о проблемах клиент-серверных приложений и возможных подходах к построению backend’а.