Interesting Snippets from 2015-10-27

• dleitee/valid.js · GitHub

  A simple library for data validation.

• AllThingsSmitty/jquery-tips-everyone-should-know · GitHub

  A collection of simple tips to help up your jQuery game

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-10-23

• henryr/cap-faq · GitHub

  No subject appears to be more controversial to distributed systems engineers than the oft-quoted, oft-misunderstood CAP theorem. The purpose of this FAQ is to explain what is known about CAP, so as to help those new to the theorem get up to speed quickly, and to settle some common misconceptions or points of disagreement.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-10-19

• Data Infrastructure at IFTTT — Engineering at IFTTT — Medium

  Since data is so critical to IFTTT, and given that our services generate billions of events per day, our data infrastructure must be highly scalable, available, and flexible enough to keep up with rapid product iteration. In this post, we’ll walk you through a high level overview of our data infrastructure and architecture. We’ll also share some of the insights we’ve gained building and operating data at IFTTT.

• Node.js Security Checklist | RisingStack

  Everyone agrees that it is very important but few takes it seriously. We at RisingStack want you to do it right - this is why we have put together this checklist to help you guide through the must have security checks before your application is enabled to thousands of users/customers.

• Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript – Smashing Magazine

  There are many common pitfalls when it comes to writing memory-efficient and fast code, and in this article we’re going to explore some test-proven approaches for writing code that performs better.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-10-15

• The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts – SLaks.Blog

  Web authentication systems have evolved over the past ten years to counter a growing variety of threats. This post will present a fictional arms race between a web application developer and an attacker, showing how different threats can be countered with the latest security technologies.

• Making the Case for Building Scalable Stateful Services in the Modern Era - High Scalability -

  Caitie McCaffrey, Tech Lead for Observability at Twitter, is fixing all that with a refreshing talk she gave at the Strange Loop conference on Building Scalable Stateful Services (slides). Refreshing because I’ve never quite heard of building stateful services in the way Caitie talks about building them. You’ll recognize most of the ideas--Sticky Sessions, Data Shipping Paradigm, Function Shipping Paradigm, Data Locality, CAP, Cluster Membership, Gossip Protocols, Consistent Hashing, DHT---but she weaves them around the theme of building stateful services in a most compelling way.

• Lightweight Grid jQuery Plugin - jsGrid

  jsGrid is a lightweight client-side data grid control based on jQuery. It supports basic grid operations like inserting, filtering, editing, deleting, paging and sorting. jsGrid is flexible and allows to customize appearance and components.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-10-05

• delight-im/FreeGeoDB · GitHub

  Free database of geographic place names and corresponding geospatial data

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