The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! Workshop context. How do participants do that? Six themes.

C++ 50

C++ Systems Software Software 50

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Undergraduate Outreach and the uArch Workshop. To address some of the issues mentioned above, we are organizing the first Undergrad Architect Workshop (uArch) at ISCA ‘19. Lack of Diversity. uarch@gmail.com.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” The Rust community is also excited about WebAssembly, which this year became a theoretical replacement to C/FFI for ecosystems that need portable, high-performance modules.

Programming 128

Programming Java Google C++ 128

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. that a lot of people used.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52