Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Root of trust (RoT) establishment on an untrusted system ensures that a system state comprises all and only content chosen by the user, and the user’s code begins execution in that state. In this context it means there are no external dependencies on e.g. secrets, trusted hardware modules, or special instructions (e.g.

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I loaded it into Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), but I couldn’t definitively find the hang. When a Windows program stops pumping messages there will be ETW events emitted to indicate exactly where this happened , so those types of hangs are trivial to find. MiB, 32112, 98 code blocks. The problem suddenly became clearer.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. That doesn’t happen in kernel code; the CPU does that on its own.

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Typically, when we modify a program, we’d like to run it to verify our changes. Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. 1.144949 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC ( i440FX + PIIX, 1996 ) , BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1

C++ 56

C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56

Randon ASCII

APRIL 14, 2020

I tried to tap the control key (virtual key code 162) once a second until the password input field appeared. Some of it is programs (including som internal Google tools) that have registered in Task Scheduler to run “On workstation lock of any user” – who knew? Ultimately there are a lot of programs spinning very hard.

Programming 89

Programming Processing Systems Hardware 89

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. However, producing a complete and competitive WebView-based browser requires additional UI and glue code. " you might ask?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. With 2 FMA units that have 5-cycle latency, the code must implement at least 2*5=10 independent accumulators in order to avoid stalls.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer. Most sorts of sites have shallow sessions, making up-front script costs hard to justify.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. However, in the past, you had to write code to manage the data changes and deal with keeping the search engine and data warehousing engines in sync. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Java used to power core file system code. Python used to power client-side code, certain microservices, migration scripts, internal scripts. We use event-based sync in our desktop sync client code, as server events are happening they get pushed to the client from server and the client replays them locally.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52