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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise. In both cases, the OS will task the browser team to heavily prioritise integrations with the latest OS and hardware features at the expense of more broadly useful capabilities — e.g. shipping "notch" CSS and "force touch" events while neglecting Push.

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The Pursuit of Appiness

Alex Russell

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

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