July 2015
42 links saved this month.
docs.python.org
Python 2's robotparser module and its RobotFileParser class, which reads robots.txt and answers whether a user agent may fetch a URL.
blog.crisp.se
Jimmy Janlén announces his work-in-progress book collecting the visualisation techniques agile teams use on their boards.
letsencrypt.org
Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority issuing free, automated TLS certificates for HTTPS.
dotdotdot.frebsite.nl
jQuery.dotdotdot, a JavaScript plugin that truncates multi-line HTML content with an ellipsis and an optional read-more link.
tip.golang.org
The release that made the compiler and runtime self-hosting in Go, with a redesigned concurrent garbage collector.
davidmarquis.wordpress.com
A design for reliable, exactly-once delivery to multiple consumers built on Redis lists and sets rather than its fire-and-forget pub/sub.
bloomberg.com
Paul Ford's book-length 2015 Bloomberg Businessweek essay on what software is, how it gets made, and the culture of the people who write it.
kafka.apache.org
The official Apache Kafka documentation, covering the distributed commit log's design, configuration, operations and client APIs.
docs.docker.com
How to read a container's CPU, memory, block I/O and network usage, through docker stats and directly from the cgroup pseudo-files.
andersbll.github.io
DeepPy, an MIT-licensed Python deep learning framework covering feedforward, convolutional and autoencoder networks on CPU or Nvidia GPUs.
nathanleclaire.com
A walkthrough of centralising Docker container logs by feeding Logspout into an ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana stack.
goldmann.pl
How Docker uses cgroups to bound a container: CPU shares, memory limits and disk I/O bandwidth.
fabiokung.com
Why free and top report host memory inside a container, and what it would take for cgroup limits to be visible to the processes running there.
github.com
A stateless log router that runs as a Docker container, attaches to every other container on the host and forwards their logs elsewhere.
sirupsen.com
A 2015 list of ten obstacles — image building, logging, filesystem reliability — that kept Docker from succeeding widely in production.
medium.com
Argues that Tape's minimal, dependency-free assertions produce better unit tests than the larger feature surface of Mocha or Jasmine.
