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Circus, Nginx and Websockets. Looking for a high performance, powerfull process manager for a Python project I’m working on, I stumbled on Circus. On this excellent benchmark blog post. After running my own benchmark tests, I agree that the Circus. Stack is the way to go. High concurrency, fast response time, and socket support are the features that pulled me in. I’m switching off of Supervisord. Because: a) Circus integrates directly with ZeroMQ. Circus doesn’t start on boot. With my config file in.

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Just-In-Time Architecture Scaling - Nathan Cahill

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Any discussion about the architecture of a software project leads to arguments over the best way to achieve scalability. Essentially, it comes down to finding a happy medium between the time required. To develop a scalable architecture and how scalable. That architecture will be. This is where the idea of Just-In-Time. Reaching the limits of the stack used in the first iteration is A Good Problem to have. 8221;, you can minimize development time while staying ahead of the scalability curve. Keep in m...

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Using RAM Drives - Nathan Cahill

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After getting a new Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM ( G.Skill. Not from Apple, highly recommended), I starting looking for ways to put it to use. One of my favorite hacks is mounting a virtual disk with a portion of the RAM. Once you create a RAM drive, you can take advantage of the theoretical 10GB/s read/write speed. To RAM. Everything stored in the RAM is temporary and will disappear on unmount or reboot. It’s pretty simple to do, just run this command in the Terminal:. Entirely in the memory. If you’re ...

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Blog Archives - Nathan Cahill

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Jetpack, HTML5 pushState and unsafeWindow. Installing Homebrew on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks. Kaleidoscope: The Most Powerful Diff Tool for Mac OS X. Connecting Things that are Inherently Disconnected. Pro tip: Manage cron like a boss. Hackers and Hustlers: Where next? Circus, Nginx and Websockets. FontPrep: The missing CSS3 font generator for Mac OS X. Make Requests-Cache play nicely with Heroku. OAuth with Twitter and Python Flask. Film: Canon AE-1 Program. Startup in… Latin America?

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Jetpack, HTML5 pushState and unsafeWindow - Nathan Cahill

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Jetpack, HTML5 pushState and unsafeWindow. I wrote a cross-browser extension to replace the ads in the sidebar of Facebook with content of my own. Facebook uses entirely client-side navigation: new data for the next view is loaded via Ajax, pushState is fired, and the next view is rendered. Unfortunately, Firefox Jetpack is still lagging behind the support that Chrome extensions have for navigation events. In Chrome, it was simple to set up a listener for URL changes:. 1 state = match) { history.onpu...

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Hackers and Hustlers: Where next? - Nathan Cahill

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Hackers and Hustlers: Where Next? As we’re getting close to 1000 users on Hackers and Hustlers, I’d like to start a discussion about the future of H&H. We used to have excellent discussions on here. A year ago and 600 people less, it was not unusual to see 40 comment discussions, there was even talk of Facebook needing threading in comments. We were opinionated and expressive. Links posted tended to be relevant to the group’s goal: creating a startup culture in Michigan. Nathan Bashaw and I talked severa...

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Autocompletion in git - Nathan Cahill

http://nathancahill.github.io/autocompletion-in-git

Do you like hitting tab to autocomplete long file name and commands? Do you use git? Then you need to install this right now! Git doesn’t autocomplete commands or branch names, but you can enable it with this script. Grab it from here: https:/ raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash. And add this line to your. Source /.git-completion.bash. You are now a git speed ninja. You’ll wonder what to do with all your extra time (and why git doesn’t include this be default).

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Automatically activate virtualenv - Nathan Cahill

http://nathancahill.github.io/automatically-activate-virtualenv

I find myself typing. A lot when switching between Python projects. I added this function to my .bash profile. It checks if there’s a directory named venv (or virtualenv or whatever you use). If there is, it activates the virtual environment automagically. If [ -d "venv" ] ; then.