Richard Bishop rbishop

Various search databases and backends as alternatives to Elasticsearch.

Rust

Sonic - github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic - lightweight & schema-less search backend
Tantivy - github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
Toshi - github.com/toshi-search/Toshi - search engine built on top of Tantivy
Bayard - github.com/mosuka/bayard - search engine built on top of Tantivy
Meilisearch - github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch - fast and full-featured search engine

Your blockchain must have all of the following properties:

It's a merkle tree, or a construct with equivalent properties.
There is no single point of trust or authority; nodes are operated by different parties.
Multiple 'forks' of the blockchain may exist - that is, nodes may disagree on what the full sequence of blocks looks like.
In the case of such a fork, there must exist a deterministic consensus algorithm of some sort to decide what the "real" blockchain looks like (ie. which fork is "correct").
The consensus algorithm must be executable with only the information contained in the blockchain (or its forks), and no external input (eg. no decisionmaking from a centralized 'trust node').

If your blockchain is missing any of the above properties, it is not a blockchain, it is just a ledger.

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What questions would you put on a phone screen for a distributed systems position?

These come from @tsantero with the last two additions being curteousy of @ifesdjeen in reply to this question from @SeanTAllen.

explain the life of an http request.
what does the FLP result teach us?
what is a byzantine failure?
explain CRDTs
explain linearizability.
how does DNS work?

Learning FP the hard way: Experiences on the Elm language

by Ossi Hanhinen, @ohanhi

with the support of Futurice 💚.

Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

	import { wipe } from "@stablelib/wipe";

	/**
	* Buzhash implements cyclic polymomial rolling hash function.
	* It is a custom developed keyed variant with protections against plain text
	* recovery from chunk lengths.
	*
	* Reading:
	*
	* http://www.serve.net/buz/Notes.1st.year/HTML/C6/rand.012.html

	Vagrant.configure(2) do \|config\|
	config.vm.synced_folder './sync',
	'/var/sync',
	type: 'rsync',
	# 標準の設定から[--delete]のみ除外
	rsync__args: ['--verbose', '--archive', '-z', '--copy-links'],
	rsync__exclude: ['.DS_Store', '.git/', 'deps/', '_build/', 'node_modules/']
	end

	@tectonic's notes for Kerri Miller's (@kerrizor) RailsConf 2015 talk -- http://railsconf.com/program#prop_980

	Interview Day
	- Set and communicate a schedule (“two-three hours, no laptop needed, we will get lunch, no need to dress up”)
	- Set expectations (“we will be writing some code together”)
	- Have a diverse set of interviewers
	- Allow for breaks

	Make a game plan
	- assign areas of focus (you do SQL, I’ll do OO)

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.

	# Generates necessary certificates to ~/.docker
	#
	# Usage:
	# bundle install
	# ruby certgen.rb <domain>

	require 'certificate_authority'
	require 'fileutils'

	if ARGV.empty?

Richard Bishop rbishop

Rust

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What questions would you put on a phone screen for a distributed systems position?

Learning FP the hard way: Experiences on the Elm language

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