Issues #135 Jan 20, 2020 (26)

Best practices for tagging your infrastructure and applications Tagging is essential to monitoring services and underlying infrastructure to group thing together and identify thing. Eg, we can easily say this Redis server is used by this service.

Plumbing At Scale Event Sourcing and Stream Processing Pipelines at Grab. I like these kind of artciles where well known companies share how they do certain thing which is very practical and always have right trade of.

P2P Peer Discovery A short article but still give out lot of useful information on how nodes in decentralized applications can discover others.

Design for failure - multiple layers of processing to protect against failures. When designing the architecture of a system, one always needs to think about what can go wrong and what kind of failures can occur in the system. This kind of problem analysis is especially hard in distributed systems. Failure is inevitable and the best we can do is to prepare for it.

Algorithm for Drawing Trees Sound easy? Just Google for an algorithm to determine the X,Y position of each node, then do something to draw each node on the screen. Not so fast.

Memory Leaks Demystified It’s NodeJS but I think you can also learn about this devtools feature to debug find client’s side leak as well They shows how you can use Chrome DevTools and Remote Target to find the leak.

Pressure Based Anti-Spam for Discord Bots This post is an effort to educate all the other anti-spam bots on how to ascend beyond a simple “mute someone if they send more than N messages in M seconds” filter.

Anomaly Detection This free course provides you with practical knowledge of the following skills. The theory and methods used for anomaly detection from beginning to advanced levels. Derive depth-based and proximity-based detection models.

Learn how to design large-scale systems System design is a broad topic. This repo is an organized collection of resources to help you learn how to build systems at scale. It has Anki card as well.