All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. flydubai chose to build their online check-in platform on AWS and went from design to production in four months. It is now being used by thousands of passengers a day.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021. Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021. That’s why we break our online Smashing workshops down into 2.5h-sessions Designing The Perfect Navigation Vitaly Friedman 2 sessions Dec 2–3 ux Early birds! Our online workshops take place live and span multiple days across weeks. Iris Lješnjanin.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. Ilya Grigorik.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Most surprisingly is the full first-class support for differentiable programming with automatic differentiation, which is made possible by Swift’s underlying compiler framework and design.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant, Asanovic made a strong case for the new vertical semiconductor business model where custom chip designs are needed for vertically integrated markets. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. “Coping with complexity” is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. Workshop context. Go overdrawn (i.e.,

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. And there’s more research to back it up.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Last year, I wrote that one of the core capabilities of an Agile manager is to "create and adapt the mechanical processes and social systems through which the team gets things done." But the mechanical processes themselves aren't enough: the manager has to create the right social system in which people can participate effectively.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Modules like the service module containing all the network requests needed by the company are kept in this core module and all corresponding network requests are made from here. In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! Refactor Or Rewrite?

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Tasktop

JUNE 18, 2019

The three-day event is jam-packed full of keynotes, breakouts, workshops (and, not to mention, parties!) designed to help attendees take their DevOps initiatives to the next level. . Attendees will discover an approach to help their organisation to better understand the human and system dynamic that underpins their IT infrastructure.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. This doesn’t require any network requests, so it displays instantly to the user.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2021

It is designed to enable you to create awesome and unique animations without writing a line of CSS keyframes. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Composable.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We decided to build up a very simple Kanban board, established a project stand-up and a project Slack channel, and kept management and the company up-to-date via our internal social cast network.”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. Sundance.org Design System And CSS Refactor ,” Kirby Yardley.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 25, 2019

In Snorkel human experts write (noisy) labelling functions, aka heuristics, but in Snuba the system itself generates its own heuristics! One of the motivations for designing Snuba is to efficiently label enough training data for training powerful, downstream machine learning models like neural networks. F1 point and 13.80

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This led to the situation where the first player got to see the physics happening in real-time (it is happening locally in their browser, after all), while all the other players were lagging behind at least 30 milliseconds (the broadcast rate I chose), or — if the first player’s network connection was slow — considerably worse.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). They are basically everywhere and will dominate your design. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. The useMemo hook is designed to memoize expensive computations. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Jump to online workshops ?. With Lea Verou, Brad Frost, Stephanie Eckles and so many others.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

However, we often hear anecdotes that the number of prospective graduate students applying to computer architecture/systems is small and shrinking. Undergraduate Outreach and the uArch Workshop. To address some of the issues mentioned above, we are organizing the first Undergrad Architect Workshop (uArch) at ISCA ‘19.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. see the end of those relationships when members elect to cancel.

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