"The goal of this site is to help you maximize your wide-area network bulk data transfer performance by tuning the TCP settings for your end hosts and by using file transfer tools that are designed to maximize network throughput. Note that the information on this site is mostly aimed at sites with wide area connections of 1 Gbit/sec or higher."
"Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can launch a new Amazon DynamoDB database table, scale up or down their request capacity for the table without downtime or performance degradation, and gain visibility into resource utilization and performance metrics. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling distributed databases to AWS, so they don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling."
"Testing an HTTP Library can become difficult sometimes. PostBin.org is fantastic for testing POST requests, but not much else. This exists to cover all kinds of HTTP scenarios."
"The JavaScript library "termlib.js" provides a `Terminal' object, which facillitates a simple and object oriented approach to generate and control a terminal-like interface for web services.
"termlib.js" features direct keyboard input and powerful output methods for multiple and simultanious instances of the `Terminal' object.
The library was written with the aim of simple usage and a maximum of compatibility with minimal foot print in the global namespace."
"Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
The motivation for starting Project Euler, and its continuation, is to provide a platform for the inquiring mind to delve into unfamiliar areas and learn new concepts in a fun and recreational context."
cool, thanks raman! "Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing."
"OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 18: Sebastian Janikowski #11 of the Oakland Raiders has a 65-yard field goal attempt blocked at the end of their game against the Detroit Lions at O.co Coliseum on December 18, 2011 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)"