Tiago Castro Henriques olifante

Tech companies who have migrated to the JVM

NB: Does not include companies that started with a JVM language. The purpose of this gist is to list the companies that decided to move their stack (or some part of it) to the JVM.

Twitter (Ruby -> Scala) - http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/07/twitter-java-scala.php
Foursquare (PHP -> Scala) - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/5130
Facebook (PHP/C++ -> PHP on JVM) - http://nerds-central.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/facebook-moving-to-jvm.html
Tumblr (PHP -> Scala) - http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html
Square (Ruby -> Java/JRuby) - http://www.quora.com/Square-Inc-1/What-is-the-technology-stack-behind-Square

Don't use MongoDB

I've kept quiet for awhile for various political reasons, but I now feel a kind of social responsibility to deter people from banking their business on MongoDB.

Our team did serious load on MongoDB on a large (10s of millions of users, high profile company) userbase, expecting, from early good experiences, that the long-term scalability benefits touted by 10gen

Throne of JS Summary

Disclaimer

I could be misquoting or mischaracterizing things, sorry in advance.

Frameworks

This document has now been incorporated into the uWSGI documentation:

http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html

Set up Django, nginx and uwsgi

Steps with explanations to set up a server using:

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	=begin
	Usage: rtftomarkdown.rb FILENAME.rtf

	Uses textutil, available on Mac only (installed by default)
	Outputs to STDOUT

	Notes:

	Links are replaced with Markdown references (duplicate links combined).

	#!/bin/sh

	CHECKSUM=$1
	FILE=$2

	if [[ -z "$CHECKSUM" ]]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 md5 file"
	exit 1
	elif [[ -z "$FILE" ]]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 md5 file"

	#!/usr/bin/python

	from time import time

	mark = 0


	def tic():
	global mark
	mark = time()

	#!/bin/bash
	# License: Public Domain.
	# Author: Joseph Wecker, 2012
	#
	# -- DEPRICATED --
	# This gist is slow and is missing .bashrc_once
	# Use the one in the repo instead! https://github.com/josephwecker/bashrc_dispatch
	# (Thanks gioele)
	#
	# Are you tired of trying to remember what .bashrc does vs .bash_profile vs .profile?

	/global require console /

	var _ = require('underscore'),
	fs = require('fs'),
	data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('./data.json', 'utf-8')).data;

	_.each(data, function(item) {

	var newJson = item[0],
	files = item[1];

	/*
	On OS X, basic text manipulations (left, right, command+left, etc) make use of the system key bindings,
	and don't need to be repeated here. Anything listed here will take precedence, however.
	*/
	[
	{ "keys": ["super+shift+n"], "command": "new_window" },
	{ "keys": ["super+shift+w"], "command": "close_window" },
	{ "keys": ["super+o"], "command": "prompt_open" },
	{ "keys": ["super+shift+t"], "command": "reopen_last_file" },
	{ "keys": ["super+alt+up"], "command": "switch_file", "args": {"extensions": ["cpp", "cxx", "cc", "c", "hpp", "hxx", "h", "ipp", "inl", "m", "mm"]} },