vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

afeld

Disclaimer: The majority of this list was created pre-COVID. Many other organizations are likely hiring remote now.

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• A1M Solutions (distributed)
• Ad Hoc (distributed)
• ACLU Product & Technology Department
• Beeck Center (at Georgetown)
• BetaNYC
• Blue Ridge Labs

reborg

Rich Already Answered That!

A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

How to use:

• The link in the table of content jumps at the copy of the answer on this page.
• The link on the answer itself points back at the original post.

Table of Content

lattner

Swift Concurrency Manifesto

Author: Chris Lattner

Chinese Translation by Jason Yu

Contents

• Introduction
• Overall Vision

tmcw

const fs = require('fs');
const d3 = require('d3-dsv');
const path = require('path');
const yaml = require('js-yaml');
const toMarkdown = require('to-markdown');

d3.csvParse(
  fs.readFileSync('./goodreads_library_export.csv', 'utf8')
).filter(row => {
  return row['Exclusive Shelf'] !== 'to-read';

mhuebert

material-ui allows for customizing CSS via a higher-order component called withStyles. Like many higher-order components which expect render props, the purpose of withStyles is to accept some parameters, and then introduce a new variable into the scope of the component tree.

One succinct and simple way to translate the concept of scope into Clojure is via a custom let macro. Usage of such a macro is demonstrated here:

(:require [material-ui.styles :as m])

(m/let [{:keys [leftPad]} {:leftPad 
                           {:paddingLeft 8}}]
 ;; `leftPad` is now the _className_ associated with {:paddingLeft 8} 

zbraniecki

As Gecko is moving toward more Rust code, the cases where Rust and C code interoperate will become more common.

This document is an attempt to ease the learning curve for engineers facing it for the first time. It assumes no prior experience with cross-language C interfaces (called FFI).

It also assumes that Rust code is already built into Gecko. If you need help with that, read Introducing Rust code in Firefox.

What can you transfer across the fence

nymous

Logging setup for FastAPI

This logging setup configures Structlog to output pretty logs in development, and JSON log lines in production.

Then, you can use Structlog loggers or standard logging loggers, and they both will be processed by the Structlog pipeline (see the hello() endpoint for reference). That way any log generated by your dependencies will also be processed and enriched, even if they know nothing about Structlog!

Requests are assigned a correlation ID with the asgi-correlation-id middleware (either captured from incoming request or generated on the fly). All logs are linked to the correlation ID, and to the Datadog trace/span if instrumented. This data "global to the request" is stored in context vars, and automatically added to all logs produced during the request thanks to Structlog. You can add to these "global local variables" at any point in an endpoint with `structlog.contextvars.bind_contextvars(custom