Interesting Snippets from 2013-11-27

• Cloud Platform Blog: Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1 million requests per second!

  The C10k problem is so last century. How about serving 1 million load balanced requests per second in the cloud? Using publicly available Google Cloud Platform services, including Google Compute Load Balancing, we have done exactly that. Within 5 seconds after the setup and without any pre-warming, our load balancer was able to serve 1 million requests per second and sustain that level.

• About Docker - Docker: the Linux container engine

  Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-11-22

• mchaput / whoosh / wiki / Home — Bitbucket

  Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-11-13

• Ceylon: Quick introduction

  Write your code in Ceylon, and have it run on the JVM, on Node.js, or in a web browser. Some modules are platform-dependent, but the language itself is equally at home on Java and JavaScript virtual machines.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-11-12

• airbnb/javascript · GitHub

  Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide() { A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript

• Magnifier.js demo

  Magnifier.js is a Javascript library enabling magnifying glass effect on an images. Features Zoom in / out functionality using mouse wheel Attachment of user defined functions for thumbnail entering, moving and leaving and image zooming events Display loading text while the large image is loading, and switch to lens once its loaded Magnifier.js uses Event.js as a cross-browser event handling wrapper, which is available at Github and JSClasses.org

• 43081j/rar.js · GitHub

  Pure-JavaScript RAR reader using AJAX, File API & local access

• stickUp - a free jQuery Plugin

  A simple plugin that "sticks" an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it, always keeping it in view. This plugin works on multi-page sites, but has additional features for one-pager layouts.

• Presto | Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data

  Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto was designed and written from the ground up for interactive analytics and approaches the speed of commercial data warehouses while scaling to the size of organizations like Facebook.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-11-08

• Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet

  This webpage covers the space and time Big-O complexities of common algorithms used in Computer Science.

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