# Misc **URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/c/misc/9.md?page=4 [Latest](https://discuss.dgraph.io/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.dgraph.io/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.dgraph.io/tags.md) **Page:** 5 --- ## [Note taking using Vim](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/note-taking-using-vim/682)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/note-taking-using-vim/682 "2016-08-13T04:37:00Z")
Found this gem, looks interesting. Like their ability to interlink notes, tag and search them. --- ## [Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/testing-distributed-systems-w-deterministic-simulation/674)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/testing-distributed-systems-w-deterministic-simulation/674 "2016-08-11T04:49:28Z")
--- ## [Productivity and self sabotage](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/productivity-and-self-sabotage/393)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2016, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/productivity-and-self-sabotage/393 "2016-08-10T06:51:41Z")
--- ## [Reading material for Dgraph and Graph ecosystem in general](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/reading-material-for-dgraph-and-graph-ecosystem-in-general/671)
**Author:** [@akhiltak](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/akhiltak)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/reading-material-for-dgraph-and-graph-ecosystem-in-general/671 "2016-08-10T06:20:28Z")
As I am a new entrant to Graph ecosystem and there is a lot of information to be read and assimilated on the topic, I thought I would keep compiling a list of most fundamental articles on this. This would come in handy … --- ## [Productivity tools and practices we love and use](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/productivity-tools-and-practices-we-love-and-use/670)
**Author:** [@akhiltak](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/akhiltak)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2016, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/productivity-tools-and-practices-we-love-and-use/670 "2016-08-10T05:08:05Z")
We could compile and maintain a list of great tools (within Go and otherwise) that help us work better. This could act as a knowledge sharing board for those tools and a guide for new team members as well. some of them… --- ## [Dynamic Sized Non-blocking Hash tables](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dynamic-sized-non-blocking-hash-tables/664)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dynamic-sized-non-blocking-hash-tables/664 "2016-08-09T00:55:16Z")
Hey @minions, @Wei found this paper when looking at gotomic hashmap and atomic maps in general. http://yujieliu.me/write/2014.podc.pdf This paper claims faster performance than the paper gotomic is based on. Seems lik… --- ## [Script to automatically check git repos while shutting down computer](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/script-to-automatically-check-git-repos-while-shutting-down-computer/660)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/script-to-automatically-check-git-repos-while-shutting-down-computer/660 "2016-08-07T01:01:34Z")
On @core-devs demand! https://gist.github.com/manishrjain/a295d51b0da7da8d2f0840954ab239e1 Also, alias poweroff='~/dotfiles/poweroff.sh' --- ## [Evolve to Multi-model Database](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/evolve-to-multi-model-database/619)
**Author:** [@sirinath](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/sirinath)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/evolve-to-multi-model-database/619 "2016-07-28T18:04:57Z")
Hello, When a DB only adheres to one paradigm you will need multiple DB depending on the paradigm for each use case with the same data. So it would be good to have a multi-model approach so you can use one DB with the b… --- ## [How to write unmaintainable code](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-to-write-unmaintainable-code/626)
**Author:** [@mohitranka](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mohitranka)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-to-write-unmaintainable-code/626 "2016-07-26T16:01:55Z")
Abridged: https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#how-to-write-unmaintainable-code Original: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html --- ## [Visualising Concurrency in Go](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/visualising-concurrency-in-go/601)
**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/visualising-concurrency-in-go/601 "2016-07-22T11:26:00Z")
Fascinating post to visualise how concurrency works in Go. http://divan.github.io/posts/go\_concurrency\_visualize/ Useful for people new to Concurrent programming for sure. --- ## [Graduate course on Distributed Systems at MIT taught using Go](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/graduate-course-on-distributed-systems-at-mit-taught-using-go/600)
**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/graduate-course-on-distributed-systems-at-mit-taught-using-go/600 "2016-07-22T10:54:20Z")
This is the link of a course that I found https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ It was taught in Spring semester 2016 and uses Go to teach Distributed Systems. Looks very good. --- ## [Few of my favorite essays on software](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/few-of-my-favorite-essays-on-software/587)
**Author:** [@mohitranka](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mohitranka)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/few-of-my-favorite-essays-on-software/587 "2016-07-20T11:15:44Z")
Few of the essays that had significant impact on my software development point of view. I hope the team enjoys them as much as I did. Curse of the gifted(HN discussion) - Eric S. Raymond tells a certain Linus Torvalds a… --- ## [Antirez on distributed computing](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/antirez-on-distributed-computing/546)
**Author:** [@mohitranka](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mohitranka)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/antirez-on-distributed-computing/546 "2016-07-11T03:14:24Z")
A lot of interesting stuff on distributed computing/database here http://antirez.com/ For the uninitiated – Salvatore, better known as his online alias Antirez, is the creator of Redis – the in-memory data structure sto… --- ## [Diseconomies of scale](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/diseconomies-of-scale/540)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/diseconomies-of-scale/540 "2016-07-06T04:38:27Z")
An amazing article about how software development doesn’t follow economies of scale. If you go from 3 engineers to 4, the communication paths increase from 3 to 6. When you release one feature, you test exactly one th… --- ## [RocksDB internals discussed in simple terms](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rocksdb-internals-discussed-in-simple-terms/508)
**Author:** [@ashwin95r](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/ashwin95r)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rocksdb-internals-discussed-in-simple-terms/508 "2016-06-28T11:56:46Z")
This has a bunch of posts that talks about rocksDB internals in simple terms: https://medium.com/rocksdb-internals-a-beginners-guide --- ## [Distributed systems course](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/distributed-systems-course/504)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/distributed-systems-course/504 "2016-06-28T03:17:13Z")
https://sites.google.com/a/colohan.com/distributed-systems/ --- ## [Popular Git branching model](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/popular-git-branching-model/440)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/popular-git-branching-model/440 "2016-06-26T19:46:19Z")
And a video: --- ## [7 Habits for Effective Text Editing 2.0](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/7-habits-for-effective-text-editing-2-0/491)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/7-habits-for-effective-text-editing-2-0/491 "2016-06-26T01:05:00Z")
By Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim. And the slides: http://www.moolenaar.net/habits\_2007.pdf --- ## [Bash vs Zsh -- It's time to switch](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/bash-vs-zsh-its-time-to-switch/439)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2016, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/bash-vs-zsh-its-time-to-switch/439 "2016-06-25T06:22:44Z")
--- ## [Beyond Titan: The Evolution of DataStax’s New Graph Database](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/beyond-titan-the-evolution-of-datastax-s-new-graph-database/472)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/beyond-titan-the-evolution-of-datastax-s-new-graph-database/472 "2016-06-22T19:49:40Z")
June 21, 2016 Beyond Titan: The Evolution of DataStax’s New Graph Database Alex Woodie TitanDB DataStax’s 2015 acquisition of Aurelius–the company behind the TitanDB graph database–was a clear statement about the imp… --- ## [Dgraph featured in React](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dgraph-featured-in-react/451)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dgraph-featured-in-react/451 "2016-06-20T12:06:37Z")
http://react-etc.net/entry/dgraph-is-a-next-generation-graph-database-with-graphql-as-the-query-language --- ## [Medical technologist drives semantic data lake development](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/medical-technologist-drives-semantic-data-lake-development/442)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/medical-technologist-drives-semantic-data-lake-development/442 "2016-06-19T19:04:45Z")
A pivotal magazine article helped point medical doctor Parsa Mirhaji along a path to a semantic data lake for healthcare analytics applications, using Hadoop, RDF, graph databases and more. Nearly 15 years ago when Pa… --- ## [Graph technology the beating heart of new data management tools](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/graph-technology-the-beating-heart-of-new-data-management-tools/441)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/graph-technology-the-beating-heart-of-new-data-management-tools/441 "2016-06-19T19:01:11Z")
Graph technology is popping up in many places, including master data management. A major data integration player has joined the quest, as seen recently at Informatica World. Graph databases and analytics systems have … --- ## [First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/first-break-all-the-rules-what-the-worlds-greatest-managers-do-differently/407)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/first-break-all-the-rules-what-the-worlds-greatest-managers-do-differently/407 "2016-06-14T07:46:33Z")
This is a classic from the folks at Gallup. Also learned recently that FB’s head of HR, Lori Goler, was influenced by this book. --- ## [How Netflix reinvented the HR](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-netflix-reinvented-the-hr/391)
**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-netflix-reinvented-the-hr/391 "2016-06-09T23:48:02Z")
Read this post on hackernews https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr/ar/pr A lot of points here we have been deliberating about. Its mostly about the unusual approach Netflix took to HR, interesting read. --- ## [The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/the-alliance-managing-talent-in-the-networked-age/392)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/the-alliance-managing-talent-in-the-networked-age/392 "2016-06-09T16:59:05Z")
Reid Hoffman along with Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh talk about the Alliance and tour of duty frameworks as a way to manage the employer-employee relationship. Successfully deployed at Linkedin and other companies. --- ## [I3: An improved tiling window manager](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/i3-an-improved-tiling-window-manager/286)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2016, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/i3-an-improved-tiling-window-manager/286 "2016-06-06T08:39:31Z")
Came across this y’day, when watching Eric Raymond’s new desktop being built by a couple of hardware guys. He apparently uses this, and the video showed it for like a few seconds, and immediately it felt like something r… --- ## [To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/to-write-better-code-read-virginia-woolf/369)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/to-write-better-code-read-virginia-woolf/369 "2016-06-05T12:49:17Z")
NYT Opinion article comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of Vinod Khosla and Steve Jobs. --- ## [Practical Vim: Edit Text at Speed of Though](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/practical-vim-edit-text-at-speed-of-though/363)
**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/practical-vim-edit-text-at-speed-of-though/363 "2016-06-04T03:16:38Z")
Amazing book, love it so far! I was inclined to skip the visual mode in the first read, but Tip 24 is just so unreal, it’s freaking awesome. Tip 24: Edit Tabular Data with Visual-Block mode. --- ## [Contagious: Why Things Catch On](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/contagious-why-things-catch-on/354)
**Author:** [@koppula](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/koppula)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/contagious-why-things-catch-on/354 "2016-06-03T07:39:55Z")
Interesting book on viral marketing and why things catch on. [Previous page](https://discuss.dgraph.io/c/misc/9.md?page=3) [Next page](https://discuss.dgraph.io/c/misc/9.md?page=5)