O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. I’m a professor who is interested in how we can use LLMs (Large Language Models) to teach programming. Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). Don't blame the straw, in this case, don't blame the frame pointers. Adding anything will cause the same effect.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1,

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. He keeps an updated archive of his blogs, articles, speaking engagements. You can find Barry blogging at tunetheweb.com or follow him on Twitter @ tunetheweb.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Created by Evan You, Vue had its first public appearance in 2014. JSX provides you the flexibility of the whole programming language with temporary variables, flow controls and the ability to reference JS values directly in scope. Its documentation has set a benchmark that beats anything from react camp.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52