O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I at the Software Improvement Group (SIG) have been in the business of evaluating the quality of code, architecture, and development practices for our customers. Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017.

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Software Software Development Code 73

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In the kernel, you’ll often see capability checks spread throughout the code, which looks something like this: [link] Notice this function doesn’t check if the user is root, but if the task has the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability before allowing it to execute. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. As well as helping customers in South Africa, and across the continent with technology, we also have a number of programs to help foster startups and to support the development of technology skills in the education sector.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In the summer of 2017 I wrestled with a Windows performance problem. It was our code that had changed. The problem, circa 2017. Since the LLVM test suite spawned a lot of processes it ended up being serialized during process destruction, causing huge slowdowns and input hangs, far worse than what I’d seen in 2017.

Programming 71

Programming Processing Testing Code 71

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Code Maintainability. Bloomberg – Efficient, simple-to-access, personalized content for end-users with automatic code refreshing options. Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011. Performance comparison. Application architecture.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be The trace flag does not apply to SQL Server on Linux SQL 2017 RTM thru CU5.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. Bard Google’s code name for its chat-oriented search engine, based on their LaMDA model, and only demoed once in public.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Tasktop

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those that have survived don’t code from documentation. Assigning SAFe titles, renaming or rewriting requirements as user stories, measuring story points instead of lines of code or hours… it’s all meaningless without adopting the underlying principles that led to these new frameworks and techniques. Most won’t even try.

Software 52

Software Software Development Social Media 52

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I don’t have access to this source code but I looked through the stacks for a bit and they seemed to suggest that explorer.exe was spending more than 20 seconds doing a lot of tasks related to… arranging icon positions. Despite the obvious awareness of this issue we, as an industry, keep shipping code that is quadratic.

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Monitoring Testing Code Servers 141

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Our checks are based on well-known problems that arise in experimental design and causal inference… PlanAlyzer checks PlanOut programs for a variety of threats to internal validity, including failures of randomization, treatment assignment, and causal sufficiency. PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point.

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. With this, let’s look at some of the best approaches & tools that can help in building a rock-solid mobile website testing strategy: Validation of HTML and CSS Code. Critical, Severe, Medium, and Low).

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the 2017 State of DevOps Report , those organizations that have employed DevOps practices spend 21 percent less time on unplanned work and rework, and 44 percent more time on new work which leads to higher efficiency. The continuous monitoring and testing of the code improve the overall build quality of the application.

DevOps 53

DevOps Innovation Efficiency Testing 53

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. .</param> </param> protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) { if (disposing && (components !=

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Efficiency Code Servers Cache 40

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Public accessibility enables and allows users to download, modify, and distribute the code. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards.

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Michigan) in 2002 for use in product life cycle management, it was recently popularized for IoT by Gartner in a 2017 report. Analytics methods can range from simple sequential code to machine learning algorithms or rules engines. The answer to this challenge may be found in the digital twin model.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Michigan) in 2002 for use in product life cycle management, it was recently popularized for IoT by Gartner in a 2017 report. Analytics methods can range from simple sequential code to machine learning algorithms or rules engines. The answer to this challenge may be found in the digital twin model.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Most sites, even those that aspire to be "lived in", feature short median sessions, which means we can't actually justify much in the way of up-front code, and first impressions always matter. 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.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Taking a closer look at the log and stepping though the LLDB code I found the read failure occurring because the memory address could not be located in the tracked VM map. When this marker is placed in the program and section header count members, it indicates that section_header[0] holds the actual count values.

Servers 40

Servers Programming Media Open Source 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

FL is one instance of the more general approach of “bringing the code to the data, instead of the data to the code” and addresses the fundamental problems of privacy, ownership, and locality of data. The FL Plan is also represented by a Python program. ” Secure Aggregation.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman. Rick Viscomi.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers are unable to rely on semantic versioning or trust file names because returned resources must contain the exact code that developers request. Browser teams aggressively track and manage binary size, and scarce engineering resources are spent to develop increasingly exotic mechanisms to distribute only the code a user needs.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

We also recommend using a free program like KeePass or KeePassX which allow you to generate secure passwords and store them in a database locally on your computer. Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. Here is a good guide on how to choose a strong password. “Authentication.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. PWA App Icon Badging.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. It is much more difficult to publish truly risky, revolutionary research due to implicit filters in what gets funded and what makes it past a program committee. However, a similar near term bias exists in academia. Discounting the Past.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. Linux is also hard coding the 1, 5, and 15 minute constants. This state is used by code paths that want to avoid interruptions by signals, which includes tasks blocked on disk I/O and some locks. This, too, was a dead end. . ;-).

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 22, 2017

The savings this time are less important as they are mostly in the.BSS segment, but there are also some modest code-size savings, and some interesting lessons. In this episode I’ll show how deleting an inline function definition can lead to similar savings. In August of 2016 Chrome switched meta-build systems, from gyp to gn.

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C++ Code Systems Processing 56

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. VsChromium is a Visual Studio extension that keeps all of the source code in a monitored directory loaded into RAM. We know that this code is running too slow.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Fetishizing pair programming. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. It’s not about getting software developers to write code faster. What is modern Agile? Neckbeards?

Artificial Intelligence 20

Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture Programming Infrastructure 20

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing).

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

A component is simply a set of pieces of HTML, JavaScript and CSS code put all together to create an autonomous entity. I will demonstrate this by re-imagining how this example coded for React would fare in a component-based API. Recommended reading : A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API. Building A Site Through Components.

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