Erin McKean emckean

From zero to microservice with 𝚫 now

The following guide will show you how to deploy a simple microservice written in JavaScript using 𝚫 now.

It uses Open Source tools that are widely available, tested and understood:

Node.JS
NPM
Express

I got Torch + CUDA working on a Ubuntu 14.04 g2.2xlarge EC2 instance using these instructions. Get the latest CUDA install package by consulting https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads#linux and grabbing the most recent. (7.0 at time of writing).

I also made a public AMI with this, plus Dan Hon's char-rnn fork pre-installed.

It's ami-9bcadbab, or dreaming-prose-public, in the us-west-2 (Oregon) region. You should be able to copy it to another region if you need to. You can launch an instance in the EC2 console at this URL: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2#LaunchInstanceWizard:ami=ami-9bcadbab

You'll need a g2.2xlarge or g2.8xlarge instance or there'll be no CUDA for you...

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

OS X's "Word of the Day" screensaver is a great way to passively learn words:

But I've always thought that its word list kind of stunk—it was full of obscure words that I could never really see myself using. I'd prefer something like Norman Schur's 1000 Most Important Words. What if you could plug your own word list into the screensaver?

On a rather obscure comment thread, someone explained where you might find the word list that Apple uses to power the screensaver. It is at /System/Library/Graphics/Quartz\ Composer\ Plug-Ins/WOTD.plugin/Contents/Resources/NOAD_wotd_list.txt. The file looks like this:

m_en_us1282510	quinsy

	# Inspired by a church billboard that read:
	# "When I becomes we, illness becomes welness"
	#
	# usage:
	# > ruby change-x-for-y.rb i we
	# illness wellness
	# inch wench
	# it wet
	# ...

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name wordnik-links
	// @namespace com.cemerick
	// @description links all words in wordnik definitions to their corresponding wordnik page
	// @version 1
	// @grant none
	// @match http://www.wordnik.com/words/*
	// @match https://www.wordnik.com/words/*
	// ==/UserScript==

	var T = require("twit");
	var Q = require("q");

	// key and secret for Twitter for iPhone.
	// A whitelisted app is needed to access the cards API; you can't just create your own currently.
	var TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = "IQKbtAYlXLripLGPWd0HUA";
	var TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = "GgDYlkSvaPxGxC4X8liwpUoqKwwr3lCADbz8A7ADU";
	// These you will have to fill in yourself by authorizing Twitter for iPhone for your account.
	// How to get the access tokens through OOB authorization is outside the scope of this snippet.
	var TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN = "";

	from __future__ import print_function

	import tweepy

	import gb_config as gb_config

	USERNAME = '@twitter'


	class MentionsListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

	<?
	/////////////////////
	// slack2html
	// by @levelsio
	/////////////////////
	//
	/////////////////////
	// WHAT DOES THIS DO?
	/////////////////////
	//