The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. CCS’19. The Internet Security Research Group.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012. The Collector’s principal developer is the OpenTelemetry team, but it also sees contributions of custom components by third parties (for example, Dynatrace).

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In a steady-state process (not allocating excessively) on a system with sufficient memory (this system had 64 GiB of RAM and roughly 47 GiB of that was available) the number of page faults should be close to zero, and this was a long way from that. But this function remains, waiting to snare some future developer. That is remarkable.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

If both sort and no-sort alternatives are available, the optimizer will make a cost-based choice. The following script should be run on a development SQL Server instance in a new test database set to use the SIMPLE or BULK_LOGGED recovery model. SQL Server 2012. [ Fully Logged Rows ] = COUNT_BIG ( * ) FROM sys.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

You work on big long-pole features that require multiple years of development by making a release big enough to cover the necessary development time, then try to stop working on new features entirely while stabilizing the release (a big join point). This has been the model since 2012, and we don’t want to go back.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Designed with High Availability in mind. Figure 3?—?DBLog

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. The Region launches with two Availability Zones to help customers build highly available applications. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our Australian customers and partners. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Critical features of MariaDB include robust security features like encryption at rest and in transit, user authentication, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as high-performance query execution, advanced indexing techniques, and replication, clustering, and sharding, ensuring scalability and high availability.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. How can that be?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Modern network performance and availability.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

On the contrary, it is almost always because they have developed better and more modern ways to solve those same problems. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. But habits are hard to break; ask me how I know. A recent example. dm_os_performance_counters.

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Latency Servers Monitoring Systems 57

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF makes it very easy for developers to architect and implement these tasks, run them in the cloud or on premise and coordinate their flow. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The following demo script should be run on a development instance in a new test database set to use the SIMPLE recovery model. For SQL Server 2012 and earlier , the transition point for this particular table is 898 rows. In SQL Server 2012 and earlier, the calculation is performed by sqllang!OptimizerUtil::ComputeRowLength.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Wave 1: PostgreSQL 9.2 (2012) added support for JSON data type. For example, find all books that are available in braille. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL. Developers are discouraged from holding a database connection while other operations take place. For example, Stripe transactions. JSON database in 9.2

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Customers tell us they poll SQS quickly because they want to retrieve messages as soon as they become available. With long polling, SQS instead waits for a message to become available and sends it to the client if the message arrives within a customer-defined time period.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. Comprehensive lists are available here and here. . In 2014, Google’s Project Tango deployed Myriad1 to construct 3D indoor maps.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. By the way, for mission critical OLTP workloads, you should also consider adding the Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option to improve availability. Parse , the very cool mobile development platform that runs on AWS, switched to using Provisioned I/O for EBS to run their databases.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew?

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. Flexibility is in the choice of software and languages running on AWS, in the tools and interfaces available to manipulate resources and applications, and in the ability to leverage services from other providers. in the development platform space? All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. 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.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. release (early 2012) and probably another 18 months after that before most users will have upgraded (mid-2013).

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Using Amazon Glacier AWS customers no longer need to worry about how to plan and manage their archiving infrastructure, unlimited archival storage is available to them with a familiar pay-as-you-go model, and with storage priced as low as 1 cent per GB it is extremely cost-effective.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In my talk on Friday, there will be announcements of broad interest to C++ developers on all compilers and platforms. Friday, November 2, 2012. The talk will be webcast live on Channel 9 , and available soon afterwards on demand. Please help spread the word. The Future of C++. 12:45pm (U.S. Pacific Time).

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Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 21, 2012

The first panel from C++ and Beyond 2012 is now available on Channel 9: On Static If, C++11 in 2012, Modern Libraries, and Metaprogramming. Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter. Channel 9 was invited to this year’s C++ and Beyond to film some sessions (that will appear on C9 over the coming months!)…

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

The talk is now available online. On September 12, we shipped VC++ 2012 with the complete C++11 standard library, and adding support for C++11 range- for , enum class , override and final. Links: VC++ November 2012 CTP announcement. This has been a phenomenal year for C++, since C++11’s publication just 12 months ago.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

We need a new breed of CMS — one that can make content available through any channel at which point a Headless CMS is required. The API makes contents available through any channel and on any device using most favorite tools and programming languages plus it also provides a higher level of security and much better scalability.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. Before these were widely supported, developers could load scripts asynchronously using a variety of techniques (i.e., The best way to load scripts asynchronously is to use the async attribute.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 22, 2018

2012 was a dark time for responsive images. Thanks to the standards that have been developed around responsive images, it’s a trade-off we no longer need to make. More often than not, though, your best approach is probably to make use of the suite of responsive images standards we now have available to us.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 30, 2012

Be there to hear the details, and to receive an extra perk that’s being reserved for C&B 2012 attendees only. Note: We sometimes record sessions and make them freely available online via Channel 9, and we intend to do that again this year for some selected sessions.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Emmett McBain died of cancer in 2012 and since then has been recognized by AIGA, the Society of Typographic Arts, and the Art Directors Clubs of Chicago and Detroit. Depending on the OpenType features available in the font you’ve chosen, you can also improve tabular data readability by specifying lining rather than old-style numerals.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2012

On May 18, Microsoft is hosting a one-day free technical event for developers who want to write Metro apps for Windows 8 using Visual C++. From the page: Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. Register now!

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 2, 2012

by Jordan DeLong on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 2:59pm ·. To help solve that problem, today we open sourced an initial release of Folly, a collection of reusable C++ library artifacts developed and used at Facebook. Facebook is built on open source from top to bottom, and could not exist without it.

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