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Podcast: Interview with Software Engineering Daily

Sutter's Mill

Also in April, I was interviewed by Jordi Mon Companys for Software Engineering Daily, and that interview was just published on the SE Daily podcast. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure.

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)

The Morning Paper

In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it. In summary, software engineers find themselves in a very unenviable position when attempting to resolve an outage with their service. Why is this even a thing?

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How It Works: SQL Server 2016 SSE/AVX Support

SQL Server According to Bob

This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. Else use Software algorithms. Version of SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016 using the Crypto* APIs take advantage of the hardware implementations through the API support. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

SQL Server According to Bob

Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer. Use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or your favorite query editor to connect to a SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instance. SQL Server 2014. DEMO – It Just Runs: DBCC CheckDB. SQL Server.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

The latest consolidated financials (PDF) are from 2020 and show that, without marketing expenses, Mozilla spends between $380 and $430 million US per year on software development. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. Safari, in particular, is wildly profitable.

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Does SQL Server 2016 Require Trace Flag -T8048?

SQL Server According to Bob

Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The three types of CMemThread partitioning and associated details are described in my previous post: [link].

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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.”