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.
fr.slideshare.net
White paper from the 2015 European Pre-Accelerator Summit defining what pre-accelerators do, how their programmes are structured, what they measure and how they fund themselves.
kernel.org
Kernel developer notes on the Open vSwitch datapath — flow keys, wildcarded flows, UFIDs, and the rules for adding protocol support without breaking older userspace.
retweet.readthedocs.org
Documentation for Retweet, a Python command-line bot that reposts another account's tweets, filtered by hashtag, regular expression, age or retweet count.
medium.com
A rundown of Node.js project tooling — Mocha and CucumberJS for tests, Istanbul and Coveralls for coverage, JSHint and Code Climate for quality, David for dependencies.
pouchdb.com
JavaScript database inspired by CouchDB that stores data locally in the browser or Node and syncs it back to a CouchDB server once the app is online again.
r2d3.us
Interactive scroll-driven explainer of decision trees, using San Francisco versus New York homes to show features, split points, training data and overfitting.
jpetazzo.github.io
Slide deck comparing Docker's AUFS, Device Mapper, BTRFS, OverlayFS and VFS storage drivers — how each implements copy-on-write, and how they perform.
jimcollins.com
Summary of the research behind Good to Great — the flywheel effect, disciplined people, the Hedgehog Concept and the stop-doing list.
make.mad-scientist.net
How to build one GNU Make source tree for several target architectures at once, comparing source copies, explicit paths, VPATH and a self-reinvoking VPATH method.
tonyhschu.ca
Personal site of Tony Chu, a designer of interfaces for machine learning products, collecting his portfolio and design writing.
leanpub.com
Roger D. Peng's book on R for data analysis, covering vectors, data frames with dplyr, control flow, functions, debugging, regular expressions and parallel computation.
vincent.demeester.fr
Personal site of Vincent Demeester, a French engineer working on Docker/Moby, Tekton and NixOS, mixing posts, TIL notes and bookmarks.
jasmine.github.io
Jasmine, a dependency-free behaviour-driven testing framework for JavaScript that runs in the browser and on Node.js.
medium.com
Argues that Tape's minimal, dependency-free assertions produce better unit tests than the larger feature surface of Mocha or Jasmine.
sirupsen.com
A 2015 list of ten obstacles — image building, logging, filesystem reliability — that kept Docker from succeeding widely in production.
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.
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.
goldmann.pl
How Docker uses cgroups to bound a container: CPU shares, memory limits and disk I/O bandwidth.
nathanleclaire.com
A walkthrough of centralising Docker container logs by feeding Logspout into an ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana stack.
