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If this were true, I will definitely upgrade to Scorpio. The difference in GPU power is huge!!

the world’s smallest (995 bytes) CSS framework http://mincss.com

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If your MySQL server started with --secure-file-priv option, you will have to move your csv file to that specific folder first.

To check where that folder is, first run SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "secure_file_priv";

Move your csv file to that folder and issue the following command in MySQL console. Remember to replace /var/lib/mysql-files/ with your secure_file_priv path variable.

LOAD DATA INFILE "/var/lib/mysql-files/data.csv" \
INTO TABLE my_table \
COLUMNS TERMINATED BY ',' \
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' \
ESCAPED BY '"' \
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' \
IGNORE 1 LINES;

TJ Holowaychuk writes about Do and Don’ts of AWS Lambda.

Nixon’s retrospective on Vietnam war, 10 years later.

Not in any particular order

• errno by rvagg

• worker-farm by rvagg

• node-timsort

• microlock

• thenby.js

thenBy is a javascript micro library that helps sorting arrays on multiple keys

• lz-string

• node-expat

You use Node.js for speed? You process XML streams? Then you want the fastest XML parser: libexpat!

• Fuse

Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript, with zero dependencies

• js ex machina

js ex machina - finite state machines in JavaScript http://machina-js.org/

So a few months back, when I read of AWS lambda, I instantly fell in love with it though not having any immediate use with it.

AWS lambda is perfect for those wish to build microservices. There are many benefits of doing this such as independent deployment, security and scability. But I’m not going to talk about this within this post. This post is merely my experience with AWS Lambda.

Enter AWS Lambda: great product, works like magic and requires no dev ops which is a huge plus at where I work. However, there are a few cons:

Testing locally

There is no easy way to do this locally. Looks like there isn’t many alternative out there except maybe lambda-local

Building native packages

I’ve yet to come across a service that build native node.js package for AWS lambda deployment. For now, I have to spin up a EC2 instance, install nodejs and gcc just to build a package, zip it and download it to my local machine in order to prepare for deployment.

Error handling

This isn’t a problem with AWS lambda particular but more like with microservice. However, AWS lambda doesn’t introduce any solution to deal with this either.

As much as I like to use aws lambda in production, i haven’t yet to see any use cases for that at work to put all these in real world test. I’m sure the future of “function as a serivce” is much more and I would love to go into greater details about it in future posts if I have a chance to put it to production. For now though.. Phew

Flynn 1.0 released. Another thing to consider aside with Deis.

I’ve tried this before but it was far from production-ready back then. Hopefully that has changed.

Something to consider along side with deis. To be honest, deis offers more choice of deployment ranging from AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.. to bare metal. The choice is complete yours. Also, you don’t get vendor lockdown to AWS.