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Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
Have we kept things as simple as possible?

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

	Floating serenely through a peaceful abyss, a sigh escapes; content.
	A siren wails, you're jolted from your respite
	/dev/xsdb1 is at 100%

	A cacophony of alerts screech from the phone.
	Upset is the fragile balance, failure cascades.
	Was only a matter of time.
	Get some coffee.

	All you ping seems to crumble, machine after machine fall; a massacre of uptime.