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System Design Cheatsheet

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

Basic Steps

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?

RedDotRubyConf 2014 links & resources

June 26-27, 2014

Web site: http://reddotrubyconf.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/reddotrubyconf

Ping me @cheeaun on Twitter if you found some awesome stuff for #rdrc2014. This gist will be updated whenever there's new stuff.

Previously, on RedDotRubyConf...

Better Jasmine Tests With `this`

On the Refinery29 Mobile Web Team, codenamed "Bicycle", all of our unit tests are written using Jasmine, an awesome BDD library written by Pivotal Labs. We recently switched how we set up data for tests from declaring and assigning to closures, to assigning properties to each test case's this object, and we've seen some awesome benefits from doing such.

The old way

Up until recently, a typical unit test for us looked something like this:

describe('views.Card', function() {

Basecamp was under network attack

The attack detailed below has stopped (for the time being) and almost all network access for almost all customers have been restored. We're keeping this post and the timeline intact for posterity. Unless the attack resumes, we'll post a complete postmortem within 48 hours (so before Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am central time).

Criminals have laid siege to our networks using what's called a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) starting at 8:46 central time, March 24 2014. The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through. This attack was launched together with a blackmail attempt that sought to have us pay to avoid this assault.

Note that this attack targets the network link between our servers and the internet. All the data is safe and sound, but nobody is able to get to it as long as the attack is being successfully executed. This is like a bunch of people

	// paste in your console
	speechSynthesis.onvoiceschanged = function() {
	var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
	msg.voice = this.getVoices().filter(v => v.name == 'Cellos')[0];
	msg.text = Object.keys(window).join(' ');
	this.speak(msg);
	};

	require 'model_attribute'

	module ActiveRecordMimic
	def self.included(base)
	base.instance_eval do
	unless (class << base; self; end).ancestors.include?(ModelAttribute)
	raise "ActiveRecordMimic aliases ModelAttribute methods so must be included after extending ModelAttribute"
	end

	alias_method :[], :read_attribute

	/* bling.js */

	window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
	this.addEventListener(name, fn);
	};

	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;

	{
	"name": "my-app",
	"version": "1.0.0",
	"description": "My test app",
	"main": "src/js/index.js",
	"scripts": {
	"jshint:dist": "jshint src/js/*.js",
	"jshint": "npm run jshint:dist",
	"jscs": "jscs src/*.js",
	"browserify": "browserify -s Validating -o ./dist/js/build.js ./lib/index.js",

	#===============================================================================
	# Filename: boost.sh
	# Author: Pete Goodliffe
	# Copyright: (c) Copyright 2009 Pete Goodliffe
	# Licence: Please feel free to use this, with attribution
	# Modified version
	#===============================================================================
	#
	# Builds a Boost framework for iOS, iOS Simulator, and OSX.
	# Creates a set of universal libraries that can be used on an iOS and in the

	/*
	* Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	*
	* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	*
	* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software