Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool

Hacker News

Vector is an open source host-level performance monitoring framework, which exposes hand-picked, high-resolution system and application metrics to every engineer’s browser. Having the right metrics available on demand and at a high resolution is key to…

8 April 2015

Google open-sources its Santa Tracker a few months late

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Google might want to improve its timing a bit. You see, the search giant has released the source code for its Santa Tracker apps... in April. In other words, right when the snow has finished melting in many corners of the world. That's a little too l...

8 April 2015

Power tips for managing files in Apple’s Finder

Macworld

While some of OS X’s applications have their own data structures—like Mail and Photos—Finder is likely where you will be doing most of your file organization. After you have created or collected hundreds (if not thousands) of files on your Mac, you might…

7 April 2015

Experimenting with HHVM at Etsy

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In 2014 Etsy’s infrastructure group took on a big challenge: scale Etsy’s API traffic capacity 20X. We launched many efforts simultaneously to meet the challenge, including a migration to HHVM after it showed a promising increase in throughput. Getting our…

6 April 2015

The cost of not properly managing your databases

MySQL Performance Blog

Every day hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted by allowing improperly tuned or misconfigured systems, misunderstood infrastructure, and inefficient IT operations to live and thrive in data centers around the globe. There are both direct and indirect…

6 April 2015

The best cross-platform writing apps for Mac and iOS

Macworld

iOS devices have completely changed the way we write. Not only has iOS given us the flexibility to quickly jot down our thoughts wherever and whenever they strike, it's fundamentally flipped our expectations of the humble text editor. In an effort to…

6 April 2015

Get your own USB PID

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Welcome to pid.codes. If you’re a maker, hobbyist, or startup company producing your own USB device, you’ve probably discovered that you need a USB Vendor ID and Product ID to uniquely identify your device to computers. The USB-IF’s position is that the…

4 April 2015

A Git Style Guide

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This is a Git Style Guide inspired by How to Get Your Change Into the Linux Kernel, the git man pages and various practices popular among the community. Translations are available in the following languages: If you feel like contributing, please do so!…

4 April 2015

Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN

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In the few years since its introduction, Netflix’s online video streaming service has grown to serve over 50 million subscribers in 40 countries. We’ve already shared some of the best practices that Netflix’s software development engineers adopted as they…

3 April 2015