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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

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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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. I’m a professor who is interested in how we can use LLMs (Large Language Models) to teach programming.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Lest we assume low-end means "short-lived", recent announcements regarding software support for these devices will considerably extend their impact. So what did $650, give or take, buy in late 2017 or early 2018? Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer. but which blessedly sports 8GB of RAM.

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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.” His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course.