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Deployment with Envoy
// Contents of Envoy.blade.php @servers(['web' => 'deploy-ex']) <?php $repo = '[email protected]:Servers-for-Hackers/deploy-ex.git'; $release_dir = '/var/www/releases'; $app_dir = '/var/www/app'; $release = 'release_' . date('YmdHis'); ?> @macro('deploy', ['on' => 'web']) fetch_repo run_composer update_permissions update_symlinks @endmacro @task('fetch_repo') [ -d {{ $release_dir }} ] || mkdir {{ $release_dir }}; cd {{ $release_dir }}; git clone {{ $repo }} {{ $release …
Ansible, Just Use It
This talk will show how Ansible approaches configuration management, software deployment, remote execution and other tasks. We will examine how easy it is to get up and running and manage single or multiple concurrent servers in parallel, what are the differences to Puppet, Chef etc and how to customize Ansible to your needs.
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Inside AirBnB: New York City
Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is REALLY being used in New York City. By analyzing publicly available information about Airbnb’s New York City listings, Inside Airbnb provides filters and key metrics so you can see how Airbnb is being used to compete …
Printing Medium stories
Game of Thrones Season 5: A Day in the Life
Super Mario World “Credits Warp”
Fascinating trick in which one actually reprograms Super Mario World by just playing it to make it start playing the end credits upon triggering a crash: The goal of this run is to trick the game into playing the credits in the first level. It works by using a glitch to allow yoshi to eat …
Facebook Engineering: Introducing 6-pack, the open hardware modular switch
The “6-pack” platform is the core of our new fabric, and it uses “Wedge” [a custom built network switch] as its basic building block. It is a full mesh non-blocking two-stage switch that includes 12 independent switching elements. Each independent element can switch 1.28Tbps. We have two configurations: One configuration exposes 16x40GE ports to the …
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Flipboard Engineering: 60fps on the mobile web
Since earlier this week Flipboard now is a website too. As they wanted to mimic their mobile apps, it would sport lots of animations. During their first tests, they found the DOM being too slow (although that’s not entirely true, see this video and its description for example). And then, an epiphany: Most modern mobile …
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