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terabyte / amazon.md
Created December 6, 2017 02:27
Amazon's Build System

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?

Thread Pools

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

  1. CPU-bound
  2. Blocking IO
  3. Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

@antirez
antirez / lmdb.tcl
Created April 28, 2017 15:40
LMDB -- First version of Redis written in Tcl
# LVDB - LLOOGG Memory DB
# Copyriht (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo <[email protected]>
# All Rights Reserved
# TODO
# - cron with cleanup of timedout clients, automatic dump
# - the dump should use array startsearch to write it line by line
# and may just use gets to read element by element and load the whole state.
# - 'help','stopserver','saveandstopserver','save','load','reset','keys' commands.
# - ttl with milliseconds resolution 'ttl a 1000'. Check ttl in dump!

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@leonardofed
leonardofed / README.md
Last active February 17, 2026 14:40
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications


A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.


@JonCole
JonCole / Redis-BestPractices-General.md
Last active December 2, 2025 10:45
Redis Best Practices

Some of the Redis best practices content has moved

This content from this markdown file has moved a new, happier home where it can serve more people. Please check it out : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-cache-for-redis/cache-best-practices.

NOTE: Client specific guidance listed below is still valid and should still be considered. I will update this document once all content has been moved.

@zg
zg / freebsd-qemu-xhyve-mac-os-x-virtual-machine.md
Last active January 29, 2026 02:15
Create FreeBSD virtual machine using qemu. Run the VM using xhyve.

TL;DR

  • Create 10GB FreeBSD image using QEMU.
  • Run the VM using xhyve.
  • Mount host directory.
  • Resize the image.

Requisites

@bennylope
bennylope / ffmpeg-watermark.md
Created April 22, 2016 23:17 — forked from webkader/ffmpeg-watermark.md
FFmpeg add a watermark to video

How to Add a Watermark to Video

FFMPEG filters provide a powerful way to programmatically enhance or alter videos, and it’s fairly simple to add a watermark to a video using the overlay filter. The easiest way to install ffmpeg is to download a pre-built binary for your specific platform. Then you don’t have to worry about including and installing all the right dependencies and codecs you will be using.

Once you have ffmpeg installed, adding a watermark is as easy as passing your existing source through an overlay filter like so:

ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -i watermark.png -filter_complex "overlay=10:10" test1.mp4

Basically, we’re passing in the original video, and an overlay image as inputs, then passing it through the filter, and saving the output as test1.mp4.

@sathish316
sathish316 / DropwizardAsyncResource.java
Created February 9, 2016 09:19
Dropwizard AsyncResponse usage
package com.xyz.dw.resource;
import com.codahale.metrics.annotation.Timed;
import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.SettableFuture;
import com.xyz.dw.model.Greeting;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ManagedAsync;
import rx.Observable;
import rx.schedulers.Schedulers;
@zhujunsan
zhujunsan / Using Github Deploy Key.md
Last active July 26, 2025 13:40
Using Github Deploy Key

What / Why

Deploy key is a SSH key set in your repo to grant client read-only (as well as r/w, if you want) access to your repo.

As the name says, its primary function is to be used in the deploy process in replace of username/password, where only read access is needed. Therefore keep the repo safe from the attack, in case the server side is fallen.

How to

  1. Generate a ssh key