Script used by Instagram to duplicate the paged-in VM pages to another host : as seen in their “Instagram Engineering” post
(tags: vmtouch vm linux unix tools instagram)vmtouch – the Virtual Memory Toucher : ‘vmtouch is a tool for learning about and controlling the file system cache of unix and unix-like systems. It is BSD licensed.’
(tags: vmtouch vm linux unix fs filesystems instagram)Scott Andreas – Garbage, Garbage Everywhere [slides] : ‘GC Strategies for Event Processing Systems on the JVM’
(tags: gc java jvm event-streams event-processing tuning slides presentations scott-andreas performance)Large file management with git-annex : ‘uses Git to manage files that are larger than Git can easily handle—without checking them into the repository. But git-annex provides ways to track those files using much of the same infrastructure as Git, so that moving or deleting those files can all be tracked in much the same way as committed files. In addition, git-annex allows for branches and distributed clones of its trees.’ I may investigate using this to sync my MP3s instead of SVN
(tags: git git-annex version-control)