O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. Going in the other direction, GPT-3 has proven to be surprisingly good at explaining code. But it’s obvious where this is trending. But I don’t know if that’s true.

Programming 105

Programming Java C++ Design 105

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. USENIX Security Symposium 2019.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Of course, it doesn’t mean that JMeter became the best tool for every task, but its popularity, in addition to being an open source tool, definitely gets it high in the list of options to consider. So you need to monitor the production system to verify that your test workload is close enough.

DevOps 113

DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Wasm functions contain native codes compiled at runtime, so they should not be directly migrated as normal JavaScript objects. Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When a project’s source code is available to all, the question of security isn’t far behind. How can something be secure if anyone can examine the code and look for security flaws? Would-be attackers can comb through source code to find security flaws. Let’s start with the big one, security. Sometimes they do!

Open Source 86

Open Source Software Software Social Media 86

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The power of Smartscape is, of course, not limited to manual queries. In DevSecOps, content includes applications and services—in addition to information about the environments where they run and the users who use them. With DQL, you can easily combine different data types into a single query. Sample DQL query combining multiple data types.

Analytics 226

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 226

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The wide accessibility of the internet around the globe has made it easy for hackers to intrude into an organization’s system in an unethical manner and compromise their security controls to fulfill their harmful goals. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 85

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 85

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

I, of course, am looking from a somewhat different – performance – point of view, so not going to jump into details of the discussion too deeply. We, of course, have a lot of consultants who specialize on setting agile / DevOps / Continuous Integration / etc. or there is no API to talk about at all.

Testing 140

Testing Performance Performance Testing Testing Tools 140

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

This is the mainstream approach to load testing: recording communication between two tiers of the system and playing back the automatically created script (usually, of course, after proper correlation and parameterization). And, of course, there is a need to sequence and parameterize your API calls to represent a meaningful workload.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

5 among all database management systems and No. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Taking a deeper dive, MongoDB is a system for analyzing data because documents are easily shared across multiple nodes and because of its indexing, query-on-demand, and real-time aggregation capabilities.

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Scalability Software 77

Particular Software

JUNE 1, 2020

As software consultants at Headspring , we’re often tasked with helping organizations migrate their highly complex legacy systems to modern cloud environments. For complex software systems like the ones we’re used to working with, moving to the cloud often involves more than a simple “lift and shift.”

Cloud 52

Cloud Transportation Azure Government 52

Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

They require internet connectivity and a browser to run on. billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices.” So many internet users might be running the websites and web applications on their phone browsers. .

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Unit Testing – Developers execute unit tests for the smallest unit of code, whenever they commit new code in the code repository. Operating Systems- Windows, iOS, Android, etc.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4. If no, please explain why not.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Additionally, low latency increasingly matters at all scales: In user interfaces, low latency means responsive apps and productive users without the dreaded “wait…” donut; in financial trading, low latency regularly saves large amounts of cash; in embedded real-time systems, low latency is crucial to meeting deadlines and can even save lives.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Gzip works by greatly reducing the amount of duplicate code and white space in a website’s files. If you’re using an Apache server, the below code can be added to your.htaccess file. If you’re using an NGINX web server, you’ll add the following code to your config file to enable Gzip. Never change, Internet Explorer.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

What’s missing is a flexible, fast, and easy-to-use software system that can be quickly adapted to track these assets in real time and provide immediate answers for logistics managers. By avoiding the need to create or connect to complex databases and ship data to offline analytics systems, it can provide timely answers quickly and easily.

Logistics 52

Logistics Analytics Scalability Cloud 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

What’s missing is a flexible, fast, and easy-to-use software system that can be quickly adapted to track these assets in real time and provide immediate answers for logistics managers. By avoiding the need to create or connect to complex databases and ship data to offline analytics systems, it can provide timely answers quickly and easily.

Logistics 52

Logistics Analytics Scalability Cloud 52

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. Of course, any trend that can't continue won't, and INP 's impact is already being felt. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

With a widening gap between mobile browsers and mobile applications, users are spending 90% of their overall mobile internet time on mobile applications. The testing needs can be met via manual testing efforts of course and that is what teams do initially. Code breaks in a mobile application all the time. Application is diverse.

Mobile 66

Mobile Testing Operating System Software 66

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

If just replaying same old data at scale, then one could maybe make do with replaying web/app server access logs that any load tool can easily do with some configuration/coding to read the log and send the HTTP queries in the log. If that same transaction (for your organization) calls say 100+ APIs, someone did some bad system architecture.

Testing Tools 100

Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like the CAP theorem apply well to NoSQL systems. BigTable-style Databases: Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra. 2) Aggregates.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the quest for cleaner code. If they can compromise that one file, they can very quickly have code running in millions of web pages across the globe. It doesn’t matter what that code is. So it’s work using SRI there too.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons). Note: And safety categories are of course interrelated.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139

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. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Check out the Almanac for CSS property and selector-specific insights, or dive straight into the Snippets to grab some reusable code. It’s awesome for discovering how grid systems, CSS animation, Big Data, etc all play roles in real-world web design. Visit website 4. Visit website 12. Visit website 14. Visit website 17.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Webpack Fundamentals is a very comprehensive 4h course with Sean Larkin, released by FrontendMasters.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It ensures that the website or web application works seamlessly on various combinations of devices, browsers, and operating systems as below: Devices – Mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, smart TV, etc. Browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Edge, UC Browser, Opera, etc. No coding required, just pay and use.

Testing 52

Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52