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My not only awesome but actually splendid tech stack. Verified to be splendid and used on a nearly daily basis. BTW I'm mostly a back-end guy.

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My absolute favorites which made me think and deserve extra attention.

PyPy

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PyPy is a replacement for CPython. It is built using the RPython language that was co-developed with it. The main reason to use it instead of CPython is speed: it runs generally faster.

This is the home of dark magic. JIT + RPython + Stackless. Also all efforts to remove the Global Interpreter Lock from a Python language are highly appreciated. The PyPy team IMHO is trying to make the world of dynamic languages a better place.

Sophia

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Append-Only MVCC storage designed for fast write and read, small to medium key-values.

I was working on several databases to solve very specific problems over the last years. I tried several storage back-ends/libraries like LevelDB, RocksDB, HyperLevelDB, LMDB or TokuDB, but Sophia really is killer and deserves way more attention.

Algos

smhasher MurmurHash the fast non-cryptographic hash function
LZ4 Lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU
HyperLogLog Probabilistic cardinality estimator. Efficiently count very large data sets.

Data formats

msgpack Efficient binary serialization format. JSON in fast and small.
HDF5 File format designed to store and organize large amounts of data.

Libraries & Frameworks

C / C++

hiredis Minimalistic C client for redis
MARISA Trie A static and space-efficient trie data structure. Supports lookup, reverse lookup, common prefix search and predictive search
Sophia Append-Only MVCC storage designed for fast write and read, small to medium key-values

Python

Arrow Date and time library
BeautifulSoup Screen-scraping library
Bottle Lightweight WSGI micro web-framework
cffi C Foreign Function Interface for Python
Flask A micro web-framework
hiredis-py Wrapper for hiredis
ipaddr Google's Python IP address manipulation library
objgraph A module to visually explore Python object graphs
py-radix Radix tree implementation for IPv4 and IPv6 prefix matching
pybloomfiltermmap Fast Python Bloom Filter using Mmap
PyLucene API to Java Lucene
Pyparsing Library to create and execute simple grammars
Requests HTTP library
Scrapy A web scraping framework
ujson Ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder
Yapps Easy to use parser generator
marisa-trie API to MARISA Trie C++ library
Jinja2 Template engine
gevent Coroutine-based networking library using greenlets

JavaScript

Backbone.js Solid library for single page application
backbone.radio Messaging library for Backbone applications
Marionette.js SPA framework using Backbone.js
Moment.js Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates
Parsley Form validation library
JADE Template engine
React A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Redux A predictable state container for JavaScript apps.
CoffeeScript Language that compiles into JavaScript. Low barrier entry to JavaScript development if you come from Python.
Babel ES2015 JavaScript compiler.

Java

Lucene High-performance, full-featured text search engine library

Programs & Tools

App managers

supervisord A client/server system to monitor and control processes
uWSGI Application server, proxies, process managers and monitors implemented in a common API and a common configuration style

Storage / Databases

ElasticSearch Distributed, RESTful Search Engine based on Lucene. Hyped but evolved into something beautiful
redis In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker
RethinkDB JSON database with nice API. Lovely for prototyping and small applications

AI

Machine Learning

Caffe A deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind.
OpenCV Open source computer vision and machine learning library.

Natural Language Processing

NLTK Natural language toolkit for Python.

Dev Tools

virtualenv Isolated Python environments
virtualenvwrapper Set of extensions to virtualenv

Front-end Dev

Bootstrap Most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web
Font Awesome Font and CSS toolkit
Yeoman Scaffolding tool for web applications
Grunt Task runner for repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc
Jekyll A blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby

Operations

Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs Collection of configuration snippets that can help your server improve the web site's performance and security
SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers

Lists

Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python
Queues Quality list of queues with a collection of articles, blog posts, slides, and videos about them
Stream Processing Papers
Tools to measure system performance and OS jitter Toolkits to measure basic system performance and OS jitter

Websites & Blog Posts

commandlinefu The place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again
High Scalability Blog with good posts about scalability and performance topics
How L1 and L2 CPU caches work
How Pony (ORM) does its tricks?
Understanding CPU utilization
What Your Computer Does While You Wait

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