Tuesday, October 30, 2018

[Links of the Day] 30/10/2018 : Python Object CLI generator, Alibaba Distributed File System, Microsoft API Design guideline

  • Python-fire : library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object
  • PolarFS : Alibaba n Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database. Keep an eye on this one, as the authors are planning to deliver a TLA+ proof soon. Moreover, I hope that they also run a benchmark against GPFS or Luster rather than Ceph. Ceph is not really competing in the same league.
  • API design : pretty much the gold standard in API design. A must-read for anybody designing or using API.

Thursday, October 25, 2018

[Links of the Day] 25/10/2018 : Distributed AI framework, Reverse proxy API gateway, AirBnB Change data capture service

  • Ray : A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications [Github]
  • annon.api : Configurable API gateway that acts as a reverse proxy with a plugin system.
  • SpinnalTap : Change Data Capture (CDC) service capable of detecting data mutations with low-latency across different data sources, and propagating them as standardized events to downstream consumers.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

[Links of the Day] 23/10/2018 : bash history tool, Kubernetes security issue hunter, Kafka recovery toolkit

  • hstr : Bash and Zsh shell history suggest box it allows you to easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.
  • Kube Hunter : an open-source tool that seeks out security issues in Kubernetes clusters. The objective is to increase awareness and visibility of the security controls in Kubernetes environments.[github]
  • Kafka-Kit : set of tools for Kafka data mapping and recovery. Quite useful when you get into a pickle and you need to fix your Kafka topics.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

[Links of the Day] 18/10/2018 : Rust conf 2018 videos, Financial modeling for startups, Baidu RPC framework


  • bprc : Baidu enterprise-grade RPC. If you look at the performance, this looks really impressive.  But, sadly most of the docs are in Chinese. I don't really know how committed to opensource and if Baidu is culturally attuned to run opensource community. But I think we need to keep a close look at all the recent opensource announcement from Chinese companies and see how they withstand the test of time. Last but not least, you might note that Chinese tends to prefer QQ over slack for discussion medium. 
  • Financial Modeling for Startups : This is an interesting laying out the core element of financial startup modelling. This can be of great help for entrepreneurs out there that want to wrap their head around the difficult financials aspect of creating and running a company. 
  • RustConf 2018 : video from Rust conf 2018


Tuesday, October 16, 2018

[Links of the Day] 16/10/2018 : Cryptographic Library by Google, Rust CVS toolkit, Riselab Fast K/V store

  • Tink : cryptographic software library by Google offering a multi-language, cross-platform cryptographic solution. [Github]
  • xsv : A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
  • Anna: from the AMPlab now RiseLab which brought you the ramcloud project and tons of other goodies such as the raft consensus protocol, Spark or Mesos, comes Anna a fast KV store. This project is really interesting because the folks at RiseLab are really doing advance applied research. Their result are also impressive as well as business grounded. By example, the K/V store provides 8x the throughput of AWS ElastiCache’s and 355x the throughput of DynamoDB which is already impressive. But it is even more when you realised that the comparison is made for a fixed price point.


Thursday, October 11, 2018

[Links of the Day] 11/10/2018 : Go powerline, Kubernetes context switcher, Notebook scaling at Netflix


  • Powerline-go : a nice low latency PowerShell written in go. Give it a try.
  • Kubernetes Context Switcher : another practical tool, allowing you to seamlessly switch between kubernetes context.
  • Notebook @ netflix : Notebooks is now the default tool for data scientists. And Netflix shows how they are able to scale this tools to accommodate their ever-increasing data crunching needs.