Weekend long read suggestions 2020/03

Elixir

• Real-time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python

  Very comprehensive post about using Ports for interconnecting Elixir with applications written in different languages.

• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Introduction

  Series of articles about distributed programming with Partisan (which is alternative to distribute Erlang which doesn’t need full mesh).

• Easy and Robust Rate Limiting In Elixir

  Implementation of leaky and token bucket based rate limiters in Elixir. It is using GenServer, so there is potentially bottleneck (while it is probably reasonably high as it delegates most of the work to a separate process).

• Using Maps in Typespecs

  Short but pretty useful article as Maps in typespecs are something not really obvious.

Machine Learning

• Introducing Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform

  Lyft has opensourced their platform for managing data processing workflows. Also check out hackers news thread for comparison with Airflow.

Infrastructure

• Big Prometheus

  Overview of available projects to scale up your Prometheus.

• NATS JetStream

  NATS team has released a tech preview of JetStream, their persistence engine that will support streaming as well as traditional message and worker queues for At-Least-Once delivery semantics.

• SRE: Observability: Metric Namespaces and Structures

  Naming is arguably the hardest problem in Computer Science. Article advocates good practices in naming and defining hierarchies within your metrics.

General

• Ten simple rules for structuring papers

  Good suggestions for structuring your scientific paper. Well applicable to any technical writing.

• Atomic lock-free counters in Python

  Author leverages Python’s GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) and itertools.count to implement fast thread-safe counter without explicit locking.