acolyer

A collection of The Morning Paper posts relating to containers, operating systems etc.

In order of first appearance in The Morning Paper.

• On the duality of operating system structures
• Why threads are a bad idea
• Why events are a bad idea
• Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud
• The scalable commutativity rule: designing scalable software for multicore processors
• Jitsu: just-in time summoning of unikernels

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Create React App does not provide watching build mode oficially (#1070).

This script provides watching build mode for an external tool such as Chrome Extensions or Firebase app.

How to Use

Create a React app.

Put the script into scripts/watch.js.

BaseCase

Deconstruct 2017 Bibliography

Here are all of the resources mentioned by Deconstruct 2017 speakers, along with who recommended what. Please post a comment if I missed something or have an error!

DC 2017 Speakers' Choice Gold Medalist

• Seeing Like a State by James Scott

Books

• Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (Evan Czaplicki)
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (Brian Marick)
• Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans (Brian Marick)

glen-cheney

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

acolyer

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?