Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
spring.io
Weighs partitioned topic routing against many direct exchanges, and shows how exchange-to-exchange bindings keep a large RabbitMQ topology flexible.
juliensalsa.fr
La clave, base rythmique des musiques cubaines, expliquée en notation et en exemples sonores pour la clave son, la clave rumba et la clave 6/8.
github.com
Notebooks working through pandas one recipe at a time — reading data, selecting, grouping, cleaning — on real-world datasets.
jvns.ca
Why a SELECT query is evaluated as FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, SELECT, ORDER BY, LIMIT rather than in written order, and what that explains about SQL's rules.
benbrostoff.github.io
Habits for surviving multi-month projects — staying optimistic, logging daily progress, trusting compound gains and protecting dedicated time.
recurse.com
A self-directed retreat for programmers, who spend six or twelve weeks in New York working together on whatever makes them better at their craft.
firstround.com
The W Framework, a four-step planning loop where leadership sets context, teams draft proposals, leadership integrates them into one plan, and teams commit to it.
unixism.net
Guide for engineering leaders weighing Kubernetes — where the technology came from, whether the organisation is ready, the usual pitfalls, and a phased rollout.
unixism.net
What the kernel's Pressure Stall Information interface reports for CPU, memory and I/O, and why its stall percentages read better than load average.
itnext.io
Throughput, resource cost and feature comparison of Kubernetes CNI plugins on a 10Gbit/s bare-metal cluster, re-run on Kubernetes 1.14 in April 2019.
hillelwayne.com
A grab-bag of lesser-known Vim features, split between what plain Vim already does and what needs extra configuration or plugins.
iximiuz.com
Turns a Docker container's filesystem into a bootable disk image by adding a kernel and a bootloader, then boots the result in a virtual machine.
github.com
cAdvisor documentation for scraping application-level metrics out of containers, configured through Docker labels and a per-container endpoint spec.
datadoghq.com
Announcement that Datadog Agent 6.5 can scrape Prometheus and OpenMetrics endpoints and forward those metrics into Datadog.
docs.datadoghq.com
Datadog documentation on how the Agent derives tags for containers and pods from their labels, annotations and environment variables.
docs.datadoghq.com
Datadog documentation for the Varnish check — installation, configuration, and the connection, cache-miss and eviction metrics it collects.
briancasel.com
Personal site of Brian Casel, gathering a newsletter, a podcast and a blog on bootstrapping software businesses and productised services.
honeycopy.com
Site of Honey Copy, a boutique copywriting studio selling landing pages, brand messaging and marketing copy.
