Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

He’d programmed in the 1960s and encouraged me to learn. Software was written in Motorola 6800 assembler, using a PDP-11 running Unix V6 as a development platform. That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems.

C++ 98

C++ Software Engineering Education Engineering 98

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Adventures in Coderland author Andrew Smith discusses the journey he’s taken while learning to code. Having started from a place of not knowing anything about coding, Smith says he went much deeper into it than he thought he would. ” ( 00:15 ). ” ( 18:04 ).

Code 52

Code Programming Performance Software Engineering 52

High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. It's hard to convince students who want to write code that they should learn to think mathematically, above the code level, about what they’re doing. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program. megawatts.

Internet 135

Internet Internet Scalability AWS 135

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. To invest in formally modelling something, you really need to have a very good idea of what the software needs to do. SOSP’19.

Code 45

Code Systems Programming Google 45

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

Artificial Intelligence 78

Artificial Intelligence Development Software Engineering Programming 78

Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to a survey conducted on software test automation , 51% of organisations prefer to retrain existing staff in test automation skills. Thus, it is clear that automated testing is the way to go for the software testing industry. Chaithra Rao (Chaithra is a Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Insider Inc.). “

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Testing Programming Software Engineering Software 105

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. PHP is a popular server-side programming language due to its simplicity of use, vast functionality, and robust community support. It has a PHP engine that turns PHP code into bytecode, which makes it run faster.

Website 59

Website Development Open Source Database 59

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads. SUS209 — there was no talk with this code. SUS304 to SUS311 No talks with these codes. STP213 Scaling global carbon footprint management.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Make Your Organisation Irresistible to Software Engineers The easiest and cheapest way to hire good engineers is to let them come to you. Not all code is created equal. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Open Source Engineering Java 40

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And certainly, even in the early 2000s, the evidence of this trend was already clear: a great many functions (think eMail and instant messaging solutions) and a great many services (think software development and helpdesk roles) could be fully outsourced.

Innovation 52

Innovation Software Engineering Efficiency Design 52

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. It's worth looking at why.

Software 73

Software Software Development Government 73

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today’s paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught my interest. High-level approach.

Programming 56

Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. I was drawn to Tasktop because of its strong impact on the software development industry.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 40

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 22, 2019

About half (18) used programming as their primary means of exploring data, and the remainder used visual analytics tools or a mix of tools and programming. Each interview lasted from one to four hours, and the resulting transcripts were then coded. EDA in practice: motivations. So what goes on during EDA?

Programming 40

Programming Software Engineering Database Analytics 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Taking a closer look at the log and stepping though the LLDB code I found the read failure occurring because the memory address could not be located in the tracked VM map. When this marker is placed in the program and section header count members, it indicates that section_header[0] holds the actual count values.

Servers 40

Servers Programming Media Open Source 40

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

By Astha Singhal , Lakshmi Sudheer , Julia Knecht The Application Security teams at Netflix are responsible for securing the software footprint that we create to run the Netflix product, the Netflix studio, and the business. Our customers are product and engineering teams at Netflix that build these software services and platforms.

Software Engineering 169

Software Engineering Scalability Education Engineering 169

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 140

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

It is much more difficult to publish truly risky, revolutionary research due to implicit filters in what gets funded and what makes it past a program committee. According to the article “ When Women Stopped Coding “, the percent of women in Computer Science 30 years ago was nearly twice what it is now. Discounting the Past.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Is that born out in the code itself? Show Notes.

Website 63

Website Design Open Source Software 63

SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 27, 2017

Code name “paldumper”. However, a mini or full capture is viable for a Microsoft engineer. When a program unexpectedly terminated on Linux a core dump may be generated. Our code changes have been discussed and shared with the Breakpad / Crashpad developers for consideration.

Servers 40

Servers Virtualization Storage Design 40

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 8, 2008

Design patterns are more popular in software engineering, but as web applications become larger and more robust, design patterns are starting to become a bit more well known in the web development world. The ideas laid out in the book can help anyone working with the language to create higher-quality, efficient code.

Design 40

Design Programming Software Engineering Engineering 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Writing code for one vendor platform does not make it portable or simple to move elsewhere.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Warehouse engineering squad - managing software services related inventory, stocktake, dispatch, allocation, transfer, robotics, etc. Customer experience engineering squad - focus on end-to-end customer life-cycle, marketing, targeting, personalisation, loyalty, etc. You want to move fast. How is that even possible?

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Being static , it has the advantage that analysis results can be produced solely from source code without the need to execute the program. But there’s a problem: Enterprise applications represent a major failure of applying programming languages research to the real world — a black eye of the research community.

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases. Users can use Metaflow library to create workflows in Maestro to execute DAGs consisting of arbitrary Python code.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Our checks are based on well-known problems that arise in experimental design and causal inference… PlanAlyzer checks PlanOut programs for a variety of threats to internal validity, including failures of randomization, treatment assignment, and causal sufficiency. PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point.

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. .</param> Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); }.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. A clear warning sign.

Architecture 64

Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture 64

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I’m not really a fan of low-code / no-code / just drag-and-drop-from-our-catalogue forms of application development. component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. I chose this paper to challenge my own thinking. Déjà Vu in action.

Open Source 52

Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

See e.g. " Debugging data flows in reactive programs." Changing the program’s state in some way. The non-deterministic input vectors for a JavaScript program are well-known and (compared to POSIX) very small in number. What values should the new program see now? cookies) at the start of logging.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Network Latency 86

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. Analytics methods can range from simple sequential code to machine learning algorithms or rules engines.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. Analytics methods can range from simple sequential code to machine learning algorithms or rules engines.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. When more complicated routines are required to meet the needs, how does someone allow for changes without writing code, if they are allowed to?

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Google Games Technology Technology 122

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This effort resulted in: · Changes to the SQL Server Engine · Changes to the SQL Server Linux Host Extension · Validation with the Windows Storage team · Validation with Windows Hyper-V team · Validation with Windows Azure Storage team · Conversations with Red Hat, HP, SUSE and Intel · Changes in the Linux file system. When SQL Server 7.0

Servers 90

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