How Discord Stores Billions of Messages

Discord continues to grow faster than we expected and so does our user-generated content. This is a lot of data that is ever increasing in size. How do we do it?

https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7

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#discord #cassandra #database

Set Up a VPN Server With Docker In 5 Minutes

In this post, we will examine a method for creating your own OpenVPN server with Docker...

https://medium.com/@gurayy/set-up-a-vpn-server-with-docker-in-5-minutes

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#tutorial #docker #openvpn

What is Var, Let, and Const?

The holy trinity of javanoscript variables. Let’s see how different they are and how they can be used in different scenarios...

https://rakshith-bhat.medium.com/what-is-var-let-and-const

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#javanoscript #beginner #webdev

How to SSH Into a Docker Container

SSH is one of the most-used commands in a sysadmin’s toolbox but it’s not commonly seen alongside Docker. Here’s how you can SSH into a running container and why you should think twice before you do.

https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/13937/how-to-ssh-into-a-docker-container/

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#docker #tips

HTML over DNS

Serving Blog Content Over DNS through Cloudflare API.

https://jacobkiers.net/hod

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#web #dns #html

Python Generators - How to use them and the benefits you receive

Python Generators are often considered a somewhat advanced topic, but they are actually very easy to understand once you start using them on a regular basis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD05uGo_sVI

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#python #tips #video

“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”

https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1428093469755527168

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#llvm #clang #meme

SHA-1 is broken

"We have broken SHA-1 in practice, and tools like GIT are affected by this problem"

https://shattered.io/

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#security #cryptography

I hate almost all software

It's unnecessary and complicated at almost every layer. The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.

https://tinyclouds.org/rant.html

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#meta #extra

How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards

Recently, I encountered a problem. My domain didn't correctly implement SPF, DKIM, or DMARC...

https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc

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#mail #learn #misc

A fast alternative to the modulo reduction

Suppose you want to pick an integer at random in a set of N elements. Your computer has functions to generate random 32-bit integers, how do you transform such numbers into indexes no larger than N?

https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-modulo-reduction/

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#tips #performance

Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/04/15/ripple-animation-in-javanoscript/

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#javanoscript #web

Raspberry Pi Monitoring using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana

In Telegraf, InfluxDb, and Grafana combination, we were able to find a solution that pushes metrics from the devices using Telegraf, store them in InfluxDB and visualize using Grafana...

https://blog.thecloudside.com/raspberry-pi-monitoring-using-telegraf-influxdb-and-grafana

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#grafana #devops #raspberry

EsNext features in TypeScript with Babel

TypeScript is a statically typed language built on top of JavaScript. It works basically like a type layer for JS...

https://dev.to/fkrasnowski/esnext-features-in-typenoscript-with-babel

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#typenoscript #babel #esnext

Gitfs: Version Controlled File System

Gitfs is a fuse file system that fully integrates with git.

https://www.presslabs.com/docs/code/gitfs/

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#git #tools #misc

Microservices — micro-what?

I think we all pretty much have a good idea of what an app is. And that is precisely what a microservice is...

https://thomasw7.medium.com/microservices-micro-what

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#microservices #devops #deploy

Design Patterns in JavaScript

Design Patterns are the solutions to commonly occuring problems in software design...

https://dev.to/zeeshanhshaheen/design-patterns-in-javanoscript

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#javanoscript #react #webdev

FastAPI - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

FastAPI is a relatively new web framework for Python claiming to be one of the fastest Python frameworks available.

https://dev.to/fuadrafid/fastapi-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-20ob

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#python #fastapi #misc

Things to commit just before leaving your job

https://gist.github.com/aras-p/6224951

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#meme #git #extra

Use Docker multi-stage builds

Keeping your images small with multi-stage images.

https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/#use-a-previous-stage-as-a-new-stage

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#docker #learn

One does not simply calculate the absolute value

It seems that the problem of calculating the absolute value of a number is completely trivial. If the number is negative, change the sign. Otherwise, just leave it as it is.

https://habr.com/en/post/574082/

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#java #misc