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Twitter common libraries for python and the JVM (deprecated)

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Twitter common libraries for python and the JVM (deprecated)

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There's a tradition of ex-Googlers re-implementing the Google build system (it was definitely my favorite part of the Google infrastructure). See, e.g., twitter's pants:…

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Observed mentions: 2011-03-16 16:09:35 UTC to 2015-11-02 18:13:20 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	2	2
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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jasim·Nov 2, 2015

Switching between projects dragged a bit; I recently switched everything to a monorepo (https://github.com/twitter/commons/tree/master/src/bash/git/...) and now start the IDE from the repo root. Snappy now. Also exclude node_modules, logs.

In IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages

vecio·Apr 29, 2014Submission

Twitter common libraries for python and the JVM

1 points · Open discussion

alecthomas·Apr 21, 2014

That is correct. The service discovery is called ServerSets and is available here: https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

In Systems Programming at Twitter (2012)

jjwiseman·Jun 17, 2013Recommendation phrase

There's a tradition of ex-Googlers re-implementing the Google build system (it was definitely my favorite part of the Google infrastructure). See, e.g., twitter's pants: https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/python/tw...

In Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions

leothekim·Feb 20, 2013

We are working with Scala at that scale at Foursquare, and compilation times are definitely a headache. What helps is ensuring your dependencies are acyclic so you're able to do smaller incremental compiles when you make changes. To get us on the path of a DAG-ified codebase, we've been using a build tool developed by Twitter called "pants": https://github.com/twitter/commons which has some similarities to Google's Blaze build tool.

In Language War - Scala versus Python

rlpb·Apr 29, 2011Submission

Intelligent back-off algorithm

4 points · Open discussion

biot·Apr 29, 2011

Actual URL with Libya dependency removed: https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/... HN doesn't have a 140 character limit, so there's no need to post an obfuscated shortened link.

In AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem

thebootstrapper·Apr 29, 2011

One of the main cause for "re-mirroring storm," is node not backing off from finding a replica. Here's Twitter Back off decider implementation (Java) https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/... When last time i looked i was little clueless on this. Now I find its usage.

In AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem

siddhant·Mar 16, 2011Submission

Twitter common libraries for the JVM

1 points · Open discussion