RIAA Files a DMCA Takedown Against youtube-dl — youtube-dl is a popular tool for downloading videos (or just audio) from YouTube, but the Recording Industry Association of America aren’t happy at it being used to pirate music, despite all of its legitimate use cases. GitHub has to comply with the request, although its CEO is sympathetic to developers. Others feel there’s no DMCA infringement or that we need to move away from the centralization of services like GitHub.

GitHub

Amazon SNS FIFO: First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging — SNS is an ideal service to use if you need pub/sub message delivery on AWS but there’s never been any guarantee that messages will turn up in the order they’re sent. Now, however, you can use SNS FIFO topics to maintain consistency in message sequence and without pesky duplicates.

Danilo Poccia (AWS)

Reduce MTTR by Linking Dashboards Directly to Your Logs — New Relic forwards logs straight from the agent for aggregation, live tailing and dashboard correlation. Simplify your logging story with a single platform that unites your data with context. That’s observability, that’s New Relic One.

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How You Could Have Come Up with Paxos Yourself — As well as being a Greek island, Paxos is a family of consensus protocols and algorithms used to achieve consensus amongst a distributed set of systems connected via a network. It’s used by systems as diverse as Google Spanner, Neo4j, Cassandra, and AWS ECS. It’s also famously tricky to understand, so this article attempts to recreate it from basic principles.

Explain Algorithms

Find Your Next Job Through Vettery — Create a profile on Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers.

Vettery

Vespa vs. Elasticsearch for Matching Millions of People — As a dating app, OKCupid has a lot of data on its hands and being able to match up the right people with the right other people is a serious data problem. This post digs into how they considered both Elasticsearch and Vespa for their usecase.

OkCupid Engineering Blog

Text Layout is a Loose Hierarchy of Segmentation — Enjoy technical posts where the author knows what they’re talking about? This one covers the complexities of text layout.

Raph Levien

Infographic: 15 Top Metrics Developers Should Be Tracking — Know what API metrics top companies are tracking to build and ship better products.

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Let's Peek: A Tale of Finding "Waypoint" — Last week we featured Waypoint, a new build and deploy system from Hashicorp, but before it was unveiled one person outside of Hashicorp knew what it would be called.. thanks to certificate transparency!

Caius Durling

Build a Serverless Twitter Dashboard using DynamoDB, API Gateway and Highcharts — An example of working directly between API Gateway and DynamoDB without a Lambda function sat in between.

Victor Grenu

100G Networking in AWS, A Network Performance Deep Dive — “All in all, it’s pretty cool to be able to do 100G on AWS. As long as you are aware of the various limitations, which unfortunately aren’t well documented.”

Andree Toonk

'Type in The Exact Number of Machines to Proceed' — “My request is simple enough: if you’re going to generate a confirmation prompt as a sanity check, don’t make it a Y/N type of thing. Instead, ask them to read a number and plug it back in.”

Rachel Kroll

What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It? — BeOS was a new operating system released in the mid 90s that introduced a lot of new ideas but, sadly, didn’t quite ‘make it’.

Ben J Edwards

How to Prepare for the Coming CPU Confusion — The ‘coming of ARM’ is leading to a ‘big shake-up’ claims the author.

Mike Roberts

'How a One Line Change Decreased Our Build Times by 99%' — A slightly clickbaity title but worth considering if you have gigantic repos and you don’t care about every ref.

Pinterest Engineering

SpeedScope: 🔬 An Interactive Web-Based Viewer for Performance Profiles — You can use it on the Web, or run it locally from the source. You can ingest numerous formats including profiling output from Node, browsers, Ruby, Python, Go, Rust, and elsewhere.

Jamie Wong

git-retext: A Tool to Rewrite git Commits — What if you could just edit a diff in-place and have that applied to a commit? With this, you can.

Dan Aloni

which.nameserve.rs: See Which DNS Servers You're Using — One of those quick online tools you might come back to from time to time. This one tells you which DNS servers you’re using and it uses a neat approach to get that info in real time.

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CodeFix - Automatically Clean Up Technical Debt

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Austin TUI: A Text-Based UI for a Python Profiler — Got running Python code to profile or debug? This is an attractive option. py-spy is another alternative in this space.

Gabriele N. Tornetta

Hoppscotch: A Free HTTP API Request Builder — Formerly known as Postwoman. GitHub repo.

Liyas Thomas et al.

100,000+ Books in Plain Text Format — This is targeted at people with machine learning use cases but could be ideal as a dataset for all sorts of things. It’s a 37GB download though. There’s also a 100GB file containing source code for similar purposes. It’s all explained in more detail here.

Shawn Presser on Twitter

Notes for People Learning Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and NTLK — Notes and solutions to complement the official NLTK book.

Robert Hensley