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.
github.com
Node.js library that streams map tiles from sources such as geographic data formats to sinks such as file systems; no longer actively maintained.
blog.patricktriest.com
Tutorial building a geospatial API for an interactive Game of Thrones map, with Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and Redis caching.
mozilla.github.io
Documentation for Fathom, Mozilla’s JavaScript framework for extracting meaning from web pages with scored rulesets.
css-blocks.com
Component-oriented CSS authoring system that analyses templates at build time and compiles blocks into optimised, conflict-free stylesheets.
jaegertracing.io
Documentation portal for Jaeger, the open-source distributed tracing platform, covering architecture, deployment, storage backends and operations.
eloquentjavascript.net
Introductory book on JavaScript and programming, free to read in full online and also sold as a paperback.
blog.figma.com
How Figma's rate limiter approximates a sliding window by combining many small fixed time windows, stored as Redis hashes to keep memory use down.
itnext.io
Short walkthrough setting up Kubernetes cluster monitoring with Prometheus and the Prometheus Operator.
harishnarayanan.org
Guide to containerising a Django application with Docker and running it on Kubernetes for scale and resilience.
rsmitty.github.io
Walkthrough deploying a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack, provisioning the infrastructure with Terraform and configuring it with the Kubespray Ansible playbooks.
karlstoney.com
How to mount a FUSE filesystem inside Kubernetes pods, using Google Cloud Storage as the worked example.
github.com
Free, open-source admin dashboard template built on Bootstrap 4, with responsive pages and UI components for back-office interfaces.
bitsofco.de
Explains what CSS display: contents does — dropping an element's own box while its children stay in the layout — and where it helps with grid and flexbox markup.
wired.com
What the GDPR requires once it takes effect in May 2018 — informed consent, access, correction and deletion rights — and how it is already changing how large platforms handle data.
camil.org
Step-by-step guide to deploying a highly available Kubernetes cluster on AWS with kube-aws, including the resulting architecture and optional security add-ons such as Dex.
peterbe.com
Benchmarks several ways to remove duplicates from a Python list, and finds list(dict.fromkeys(seq)) fastest when insertion order must be preserved.
arkwright.github.io
Account of scaling a React server-side rendering service on fixed hardware — round-robin load balancing, a client-side rendering fallback under load, and the risks of component caching.
metabase.com
Open-source business intelligence tool that lets people query databases, build dashboards and explore data through a visual query builder rather than SQL.
importlib-resources.readthedocs.io
Documentation for importlib_resources, the Python library for reading data files bundled inside packages, meant to replace pkg_resources.
