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suhlig / install-tmux
Last active December 22, 2025 00:41 — forked from philipsd6/install-tmux
Install tmux on rhel/centos
# Install tmux on rhel/centos 7
# What do we want?
libeventversion=2.1.11
tmuxversion=3.1
# install deps
yum install gcc kernel-devel make ncurses-devel
# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR LIBEVENT AND MAKE AND INSTALL

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

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lesovsky / append-strings-with-snprintf.c
Created July 15, 2016 18:52
How-to append strings using snprintf (without strcat/strncat).
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define LOC_MAXLEN 13
int main (void)
{
char dest[LOC_MAXLEN];
snprintf(dest, LOC_MAXLEN, "%s%s", "abc", "def");
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vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active May 5, 2026 08:04
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?