December 2018
9 links saved this month.
dramatiq.io
Documentation for Dramatiq, a Python background task library where decorated functions become actors dispatched to workers over RabbitMQ or Redis.
ontaponline.com
On Tap Magazine profile and interview with bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, tracing her path from sideman for Chick Corea and Jeff Beck to her own songs and first headline tour.
newyorker.com
A profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the two Google engineers who code side by side at one keyboard, and the infrastructure that came out of it.
24ways.org
How to give a site a custom offline page with a service worker — cache it up front, then serve it whenever a network request fails.
docs.google.com
Read-only view of the same CC-BY introductory Kubernetes deck, deep-linked to one slide, with a Minikube tutorial repository to follow along.
docs.google.com
A CC-BY introductory Kubernetes deck by Bob Killen and Jeffrey Sica, walking through architecture, pods, labels, services, controllers, networking and storage.
jack-vanlightly.com
First of a series contrasting RabbitMQ's exchange-based routing with Kafka's partitioned commit log, and what each topology implies for consumers.
just-taking-a-ride.com
An animated explanation of how CPython's dict works, built up from linear search through hash tables and linear probing, running on data you type in.
seeing-theory.brown.edu
The first chapter of Seeing Theory, an interactive visual introduction to chance events, expectation and variance.
