The Mafia Effect

In this weeks second in-person episode, we start off by congratulating Fraser on his recent engagement. We then move on to chat about setting up Kong, rate-limiting APIs and monitoring the health of an application system. From here we discuss the final stages of Mick’s masters dissertation, highlighting the PageRank paper and the Matthew (not Mafia) effect. Finally, we mention Edd’s trip to Silicon Milkroundabout and blog posts that he has recently had the chance to publish.

Show Links

• Kong
• Kong - Rate Limiting
• Apache Bench
• Kong, the API/Microservice Management Layer with Ahmad Nassri - Three Devs and a Maybe
• Kali Linux
• Major DDoS attack on Dyn DNS knocks Spotify, Twitter, Github, PayPal, and more offline
• Tesco Bank: How was £2.5m stolen from customers’ accounts?
• Sending Metrics with DogStatsD
• DataDog/php-datadogstatsd: A PHP client for DogStatsd
• GoCardless
• 418 I’m a teapot
• Stripe
• Convention over configuration
• The PageRank Citation Ranking
• Google Scholar’s Ranking Algorithm
• How Search Works - Google
• Algorithms - Google
• Link farming
• Silicon Milkroundabout
• Apache Cassandra
• Opera Mini
• X-Forwarded-For
• Throttling and Debouncing Function Invocation in JavaScript
• Using Constraint-based Ordering in PHP
• Managing Background Processes within Symfony
• The Brits Who Designed the Modern World