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chanks / gist:7585810
Last active September 17, 2024 11:55
Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

RDBMS-based job queues have been criticized recently for being unable to handle heavy loads. And they deserve it, to some extent, because the queries used to safely lock a job have been pretty hairy. SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by an UPDATE works fine at first, but then you add more workers, and each is trying to SELECT FOR UPDATE the same row (and maybe throwing NOWAIT in there, then catching the errors and retrying), and things slow down.

On top of that, they have to actually update the row to mark it as locked, so the rest of your workers are sitting there waiting while one of them propagates its lock to disk (and the disks of however many servers you're replicating to). QueueClassic got some mileage out of the novel idea of randomly picking a row near the front of the queue to lock, but I can't still seem to get more than an an extra few hundred jobs per second out of it under heavy load.

So, many developers have started going straight t

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bishboria / springer-free-maths-books.md
Last active October 3, 2024 09:17
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
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alekseykulikov / index.md
Last active October 12, 2024 17:02
Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

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myshov / function_invocation.js
Last active August 19, 2024 12:23
11 Ways to Invoke a Function
console.log(1);
(_ => console.log(2))();
eval('console.log(3);');
console.log.call(null, 4);
console.log.apply(null, [5]);
new Function('console.log(6)')();
Reflect.apply(console.log, null, [7])
Reflect.construct(function(){console.log(8)}, []);
Function.prototype.apply.call(console.log, null, [9]);
Function.prototype.call.call(console.log, null, 10);