Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

In hindsight it’s obvious that these zombies were caused by a trivial user-space coding bug. If you do care – if you want to wait for the process to quit – WaitForSingleObject(hProcess, INFINITE); – or query its exit code – GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, &exitCode); – then you need to remember to close the handles after that.

Processing 72

Processing Programming Code Cache 72

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. Quick question about a behavior we’re seeing at a customer and in testing. I used the k command to dump out the call stack to see where in the code it hit this API call (not the full stack but enough to see the story).

Servers 40

Servers Database Azure Cache 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We talked about how we’re investing in better tooling to automatically scan code as part of the build process, e.g. using tools like Sonar and Barbara said, “Hey, what about this blog post you wanted to write? As far as I remember, Atlassian’s JIRA had already been used back when I started at Dynatrace in 2008. I have a new idea.

Education 35

Education Programming Processing DevOps 35

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Tool 1: Dolly the Sheep Companies that are heavily rule-based - think insurance - eagerly moved their business rules into code. It was easy to move into code; it's just as easy to move it back into human-readable format. A clone of something extinct - our lost business knowledge - runs the risk of suffering severe defects.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The intent behind CSSDOC is to provide a standardized way of commenting CSS making use of the very well known DocBlock way of commenting source-code. DocBlock is a very common form of documenting source code in programming that has proven to be very popular for both PHP and Javascript.

Programming 40

Programming Code Availability Testing 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Editing a blog post in MovableType 2.0

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

Traffic 220

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 14, 2009

Functionality that is coded and tested is the best measure of "results" that we have. The projected rate of progress through the Stories - that is, how quickly the team is expected to render business needs code complete - is rooted in a simple formula that includes capacity, distraction management, and estimate weight (complexity, etc.)

Code 40

Code Metrics Software Software 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?” Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration. You can see a simulation as a temporary, synthetic environment in which to test an idea. And, often, to giving up.

Hardware 102

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 102

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Testing environment. I happen to be using SQL Server 2019 CU16 but the details I’ll describe haven’t materially changed since partition level lock escalation was added to SQL Server 2008. DECRYPTION BY CERTIFICATE Banana ; Start : -- Recreate the test table. BEGIN TRANSACTION ; -- Test statement(s). Test 1 with 6213 rows.

Database 98

Database Storage Testing Servers 98

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Now we have a problem statement that we can reason about: why are large chunks of our code segment filled with zeroes? It’s frustrating to leave your computer running tests overnight only to have crashes pollute the results. In this case it said that 9322 bytes in the code in the crash dump were wrong. failure rate.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

SQL Performance

MAY 29, 2019

It can be activated from SQL Server 2008 to 2014 inclusive using documented trace flag 610. The FastLoadContext code path adds support for minimally-logged and concurrent bulk load on: Empty and non-empty clustered b-tree indexes. There are two main code paths that can set DMLRequestSort to true for index inserts. The sqllang!CUpdUtil::FOptimizeInsert

Cache 64

Cache Testing Servers Code 64

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The SQL Server Development team tasked several individuals with scalability improvements and real world testing patterns. “SQL Server 2016 running on the same hardware as SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2005 uses fewer resources and executes a wide range of workloads faster. – [link]. Auto-soft NUMA.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. The DataTable can be created multiple ways in the.NET code, but a common way to create the table is something like the following: System.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." The signal to parties who might contribute code for these features could scarcely be clearer: your patch is unlikely to be accepted.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! And so it’s important to continually invest in stability, in strong infrastructure, in stable code, so that we have that strong platform to stand on as the next thing happens. That was 2008.

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Webkit’s Dave Hyatt originally proposed CSS Reflections as far back as 2008, but so far they haven’t been implemented in other browser rendering engines. To achieve the result I’m looking for, I use nested media and feature queries which first test a viewport’s minimum width, then whether a browser supports -webkit-box-reflect:below.

Design 109

Design Media Energy Availability 109