Simform

AUGUST 2, 2021

It was during the cold January of 2016 that Google Nest Smart Thermostat had one of the epic software failures - talk about being unlucky! The incident proves that while the software development process requires meticulous planning, a testing methodology is equally crucial for delivering a quality product.

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Software Software Testing Google 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. Else use Software algorithms. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. If AVX2 or AVX use AVX.

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Servers Hardware Software Engineering Software 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. SQL Server 2016.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

Percona Community

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The concept of Kubernetes Operators was introduced around 2016 by the CoreOS Linuxdevelopment team. They were in search of a solution to improve automated container management within Kubernetes, primarily with the goal of incorporating operational expertise directly into the software.

Cloud 57

Cloud Design Software Software 57

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. A container is a small, self-contained, fully functional software package that can run an application or service, isolated from other applications running on the same host.

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Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 187

DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

According to Statista , in 2016, the number of app downloads was approximately 140 billion. The market is filling up with mobile applications more and more. In 2019, this number increased up to 204 billion, and in 2021, this rate is keeping growing.

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Mobile Performance Testing Testing Performance 199

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. This is a critical challenge: When software breaks, finding the root cause of the problem may take time, fuel finger-pointing among teams.

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 229

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Application vulnerabilities remain a key concern Application vulnerabilities—weaknesses or flaws in software applications that malicious attackers can use to exploit IT systems—exist in any type of software, including web and mobile applications. Together they equal better software. Shift-right ensures reliability in production.

Cloud 188

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 188

DZone

JANUARY 29, 2019

According to Forbes , " the global IoT market can grow from $157B in 2016 to $457B by 2020, attaining a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 28.5 Adoption of IoT (Internet of Things) is increasing across various industries, in government sectors, and in consumers’ day-to-day life.

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IoT Strategy Internet Internet 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 227

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 227

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Percona Community

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The concept of Operators was introduced much earlier in 2016 by the CoreOS Linux development team. The Kubernetes project defines “Operator” simply: “Operators are software extensions that use custom resources to manage applications and their components“. What do we mean by a Kubernetes Operator? We use the definition of CNCF.

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Software Software Development 52

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. The security challenges of DevOps. Even so, there are still a few obstacles in the way.

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Code DevOps Speed Government 159

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 31, 0001

2020 Apr 6 Off by Two 2019 May 12 f() vs f(void) in C vs C++ 2019 Jan 18 Finding Compiler Bugs With C-Reduce 2018 Oct 24 Booting a Custom Linux Kernel in QEMU and Debugging It With GDB 2018 Jun 2 Speeding Up Linux Kernel Builds With ccache 2017 Sep 5 GCC vs LLVM Q3 2017 Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts 2017 May 31 Running Clang-Tidy (..)

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer. population were affected over the one year period between June 2016 to June 2017 under the conservative and inclusive regimes, respectively. I ignored it”: a study of ransomware Simoiu et al., SOUPS 2019. We similarly estimate that between 2% and 3% of the U.S.

Software 52

Software Software Strategy Design 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 80

High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. That same company leased 35 megawatts from us in 2016. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing. Hossein Fateh : The largest deal of 2001 was 3.5 The decimal place moved by a column.

Internet 135

Internet Internet Scalability AWS 135

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 18, 2016

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. Someone can do no work by just… not working. How does negative work happen?

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Development AWS Code Software 74

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. Movidius, which was acquired by Intel in 2016, develops its VPU-series named Myriad which makes hardware optimization for computer vision tasks.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. Read eBook now! What happened to OpenTracing and OpenCensus?

Open Source 221

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 221

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser).

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Here is an example using the SQL Server SSMS 2017 against my SQL 2016 server. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The templates capture common events and leverage XEvent enhanced view capabilities to display the event data.

Servers 40

Servers Software Engineering Engineering Availability 40

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. – Cloud. – Agile.

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (all SKUs) , in combination with Windows Server 2016 (All SKUs) or Windows 10 Client introduces non-volatile memory support for the tail of the log file (LDF) which can significantly increase transaction throughput. SQL Server 2016 is designed to detect non-volatile storage devices.

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Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

Organizations that adopt DevOps are able to evolve and improve software products much faster when compared to those that use traditional software development processes. Software development practices these days require teams to deliver quality software continuously and reduce go-to-market timelines.

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Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

Martin attended the live ADSD course in London in 2016 and the two recently held their own version of the course in a unique way. Takeaways Information-dense videos on software architecture can be difficult to consume on your own. My colleagues who’d attended it before felt the same way. It also worked very well as a video course.

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Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

RIM exited the handset business in 2016. By providing a platform for independent software development, an entirely new category of software - the mobile app - was created. RIM initially doubled down on their core product, but eventually scotched their proprietary OS in favor of Android. Neither strategy paid off.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. All the eye-tracking devices and software must be provided in the lab and the study must be monitored by researchers and facilitators.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). This applies to other areas like software project time estimates as well, there’s a tendency to focus on the best case but it always takes longer. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.”

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user. Again, this was shaped by the market trends and the increasing importance of both of this software. A couple of years back a new term QAOps started picking up in the software industry.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89