All Things Open 2014 - Day 2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Nic Rosental
Founder/Developer of Epic Labs and Developer with 352 Inc
DevOps
Battle of the Stacks
Boost Fertility New Invention Ups Success Rates.pdf
Battle of the Stacks
1. Battle of the
Stacks
by Nic Rosental!
@nicdev
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noun
noun: stack; plural noun: stacks
1.
a pile of objects, typically one that is neatly arranged.
"a stack of boxes"
synonyms: heap, pile, mound, mountain, pyramid, tower
"a stack of boxes"
informal
a large quantity of something.
"there's stacks of work for me now"
a rectangular or cylindrical pile of hay or straw or of grain in sheaf.
synonyms: haystack, rick, hayrick, mow, shock, haycock; datedcock
"a stack of hay"
a vertical arrangement of stereo or guitar amplification equipment.
a number of aircraft flying in circles at different altitudes around the same point while
waiting for permission to land at an airport.
a pyramidal group of rifles.
units of shelving in part of a library, used to store books compactly.
plural noun: the stacks
COMPUTING
a set of storage locations that store data in such a way that the most recently stored
item is the first to be retrieved.
2.
a chimney, especially one on a factory, or a vertical exhaust pipe on a vehicle.
synonyms: chimney, smokestack, funnel, exhaust pipe
a column of rock standing in the sea, remaining after erosion of cliffs.
noun: sea stack; plural noun: sea stacks
Stacks
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3. The components that
make up your
application. From the
web server software
all the way to the code.
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34. Let the battle begin!
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35. Each stack gets paired against another stack randomly in
a playoff format.!
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Each stack gets a vanilla installation of WordPress to be
used as target.!
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Each stack is tested using Loader.io.!
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The stack with better response time moves on to the next
round.!
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Each rounds’ test is progressively harder than the last.!
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The winner of the third round will be crowned Last Stack
Standing