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@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active April 15, 2025 13:15
System Design Cheatsheet

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?
@pmav99
pmav99 / linspace.py
Created April 28, 2015 14:05
Pure python linspace / logspace implementation
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# author: Panagiotis Mavrogiorgos
# email: gmail, pmav99
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import absolute_import
import signal
import gevent
import gevent.pool
from rq import Worker
from rq.timeouts import BaseDeathPenalty, JobTimeoutException
from rq.worker import StopRequested, green, blue
from rq.exceptions import DequeueTimeout
@corydolphin
corydolphin / mongoengine_jsonencoder.py
Last active August 9, 2021 17:57
Fix: TypeError: ObjectId is not JSON serializable: A Flask JSONEncoder for Mongoengine documents. Specifically useful for use with Flask-Mongoengine.
from flask import Flask
from flask.json import JSONEncoder
from bson import json_util
from mongoengine.base import BaseDocument
from mongoengine.queryset.base import BaseQuerySet
class MongoEngineJSONEncoder(JSONEncoder):
def default(self,obj):
if isinstance(obj,BaseDocument):
return json_util._json_convert(obj.to_mongo())
@podhmo
podhmo / sqlalchemy_example.py
Created December 20, 2012 14:59
sqlalchemy query example.
import sqlalchemy as sa
import sqlalchemy.orm as orm
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declared_attr
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
DBSession = scoped_session(sessionmaker())
class BaseMixin(object):
query = DBSession.query_property()
id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, primary_key=True)