VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? 2023-07-22

   tags: database, database/sharding, game/mmo

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   • Startup Lessons Learned: Sharding for Startups
2. (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way 2023-02-18

   tags: cloud, network/dns, programming/shell, sysadmin

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   28. Blocking TCP port 53 traffic leads to very strange failures. Don't.
   29. The source you're looking at is not the code running in production.
   30. "Prod" is just another name for "staging".

3. Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion 2022-08-28

   tags: database/postgresql, distributed-system, performance, programming/sql, shard

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4. Graphene-Python - a library for building GraphQL APIs 2022-08-27

   tags: framework/django, programming/api/graphql, programming/python

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   • https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene
   • https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django
   • https://docs.graphene-python.org/projects/django/en/latest/
   • https://www.twilio.com/blog/graphql-apis-django-graphene
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/uzm4fn/is_graphene_django_reliable_is_it_used_in/
   • Real World Graphene: Lessons Learned From Building A Graphql Api On Top Of A Django App for Saleor (https://github.com/saleor/saleor)
   • graphene-django or: How I learned to stop RESTing and Love the Graph
5. Lessons Learned From 5 Years of Scaling PostgreSQL 2022-02-16

   tags: database/postgresql, performance, programming/sql

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6. Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method 2021-10-17

   tags: graph, knowledge, programming/markdown, text

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   • https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes
   • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916536
   • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/5918/
   • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/understanding-hierarchy-translating-folgezettel/
   • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmanns-second-zettelkasten/
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
   • https://www.foleymusicandarts.com/blog/2019/3/5/how-i-use-the-archive-and-my-music-staff-to-create-engaging-lesson-notes
7. JVM G1GC Fundamentals: Lessons from Taming Garbage Collection 2020-03-16

   tags: jvm, memory/garbage-collection, openjdk, performance, programming/java

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   • https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/java/g1gc.html
   • https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/G1GC+Feedback
   • https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/248
8. A Starbucks history lesson: Bottled Starbucks Mazagran - StarbucksMelody.com 2019-09-09

   tags: bottle, carbonated, coffee, cola, drink, sparkling, starbucks

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   • https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-20-me-48059-story.html
   • https://starbucksmarkdavid.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/starbucks-mazagran/
9. C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines 2018-11-19

   tags: computer, history, programming/c, programming/lisp

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10. GopherCon 2018 - From Prototype to Production: Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go 2018-09-11

    tags: network, network/http, performance, programming/go, service

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11. Guitar lessons: John Scofield - Jazz Funk Guitar 2018-05-17

    tags: fusion, instrument/guitar, jazz, scofield

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12. A Lesson In Low-Defect Software - A Journey From A Quick Hack To A High-Reliability Database Engine 2018-04-27

    tags: code, database, database/sqlite, programming/sql, programming/testing

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13. Drum rudiments 2017-05-18

    tags: diddle, instrument/drums, instrument/percussion, paradiddle, rudiment, technique

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_rudiment
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appoggiatura
    • http://vicfirth.com/single-stroke-roll/
    • http://www.40drumrudiments.com/
    • http://www.freedrumlessons.com/drum-lessons/drum-rudiments.php
14. Practical Deep Learning For Coders—18 hours of lessons for free 2016-12-23

    tags: course, deep-learning, machine-learning, neural-network

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15. Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned 2016-10-24

    tags: load-balancing, memory/cache, network, performance, web

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16. Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012 2016-10-04

    tags: code, development, practice, quality

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17. Snuff Box - Guitar Lesson 2013-09-05

    tags: box, comedy, instrument/guitar, lesson, music, snuff, space

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    Hey kiddos! Wanna learn some cool riffs?