Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. and he thought it was cool.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 97

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Testing 66

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

without any need to code. It was developed in 2004. Selenium WebDriver is open source; It offers bindings for every major programming language; Works across multiple OS. I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on.

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Testing Network Website Google 102

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110