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Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing Electronic Text," a class I teach at ITP. (Python 2.7) Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

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jchris / Couchbase Lite with React Native.md
Last active May 4, 2018 04:29
Couchbase Lite with React Native

Couchbase Lite with React Native

I went into this expecting a challenge but it was easy. Basically, Couchbase Lite has always had an optional HTTP listener that you can connect to from inside your app at http://lite.couchbase./mydatabase/. React Native has a fine XHR module and encourages using fetch so getting your app to sync can be as easy as adding some API calls to keep JSON in the database.

We haven't done a full example yet, but in the spirit of possiblity, here are quick instructions to connect Couchbase Lite iOS with a React Native app (generated from their cli).