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Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
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http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.

Adopt the Right Mindsets

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-{enabled,available}
cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/default.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/default-ssl.conf

File locations:

nginx.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/
default.conf and default-ssl.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available
homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/

Backend Architectures

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ror, scala, jetty, erlang, thrift, mongrel, comet server, my-sql, memchached, varnish, kestrel(mq), starling, gizzard, cassandra, hadoop, vertica, munin, nagios, awstats

	#!/bin/bash
	# installing erlang on ubuntu's

	VERSION="18.2.1"

	sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev

	sudo mkdir -p /opt/erlang/
	cd /usr/local/bin/
	sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kerl/kerl/master/kerl && chmod a+x kerl

	<!-- Run the application using "mvn jetty:run" -->
	<plugin>
	<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
	<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>6.1.9</version>
	<configuration>
	<scanIntervalSeconds>5</scanIntervalSeconds>
	<contextPath>/</contextPath>
	<connectors>
	<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">

	//
	// Regular Expression for URL validation
	//
	// Author: Diego Perini
	// Updated: 2010/12/05
	// License: MIT
	//
	// Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Diego Perini (http://www.iport.it)
	//
	// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person

	# be sure to comment out the require 'capistrano/deploy' line in your Capfile!

	# config valid only for Capistrano 3.1
	lock '3.2.1'

	set :application, 'my-cool-application'

	# the base docker repo reference
	set :name, "johns-stuff/#{fetch(:application)}"

	source 'https://rubygems.org'

	gem 'rails', '4.0.2'
	gem "redis-rails", "~> 4.0.0"
	gem 'puma'
	gem 'unicorn'

	# Use sqlite3 as the database for Active Record
	gem 'sqlite3'