ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. Development is fast and straightforward using standard object-oriented techniques, and the test/debug cycle is kept short by making use of a mock environment running on the developer’s workstation. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. Here, I go about my programming tasks as usual but I try to remain aware of myself as I do it. A Simple But Effective Mental Health Routine For Programmers.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Change starts by thoroughly evaluating whether the current architecture, tools, and processes for configuration, infrastructure, code delivery pipelines, testing, and monitoring enable improved customer experience faster and with high quality or not. Constantly reinventing wheels with a “Not Invented Here” bias.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We already see hints of that on GitHub: in February 2023, GitHub said that 46% of all the code checked in was written by Copilot. At some point in the near future, new models will be trained on code that they have written. I expected it to stay close to 1, and the experiment would serve no purpose other than exercising my laptop’s fan.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. We also quickly check for system events and see there were no scheduled code deploys in the last week. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

This approach is limited by what requestors can observe externally… To expose partial failures, a detector needs to exercise specific code regions with carefully-chosen payloads. So the approach taken by the authors is to use intrinsic watchdogs – these run concurrently with the main program inside the same process.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2022

The activist investor in a public company visits company installations, talks to customers, analyzes the footnotes of SEC filings, and develops hypotheses that management may not see or may be choosing not to report. And it’s important to note that, like anything else, investor activism can be a charade.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It had licensed a workflow technology and contracted a large number of people to code and configure a custom solution around it. The rules were implemented as IFTTT statements in a low-code language that did not allow them to be tested in isolation. This wasn't the answer that either the outsourcing vendor or the program office wanted.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 16, 2011

As a tribute in honor of Dennis Ritchie’s passing , I’d like to invite you to share your thoughts in this post’s comments about your first C program – either the code if you remember it approximately, or a story about when you wrote it. After all, this was just a warm-up initial exercise for the course. Here’s mine.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 25, 2021

We want a way to enable checking for some assertions but not others in the same code, because we may not always be able to afford expensive checks. on the developer’s machine) or at run time (e.g., If you develop your own assertion system for in-house use, support enabling/disabling at least these kinds of assertions independently. [1]

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Chrome team explains that “we are being very mindful of our approach to setting the bar for what is considered good user experience and hope to land on something that is practically achievable by all developers.”. The badging program could very well have a similar effect. Source: Chromium.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a PostgreSQL user wants to change these values, they need to recompile the PostgreSQL from the source code. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. Changing these values at compile time is not intended for common use.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The video is on [youtube] and the demo starts at [0:50] (the slides are [here] or as a [PDF]): I'm demonstrating a tool I developed to turn my laptop's wifi signal strength into audio (someone described this as a BPF [theremin].) This is not my best code, since I hacked it in a hurry, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/python

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The video is on [youtube] and the demo starts at [0:50] (the sildes are on [slideshare]): I'm demonstrating a tool I developed to turn my laptop's wifi signal strength into audio (someone described this as a BPF [theremin].) This is not my best code, since I hacked it in a hurry, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/python

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The code base has an open review process that every engineer can learn from with each change. We enjoy social hours such as team lunches, team exercises and happy hours. Would exercise and health be a good topic? We have a number of vacancies across the company in Business Development, Product Development and Sales.

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Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Regression testing comprises re-running the test cases of already stable features and finding out if the new code changes attributed to the new release led to any negative impacts on the existing functionalities. Regression checks should start as soon as a new build is released for testing and should be repeated for every new code build.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

These contributors represent people from high school and undergrad students to full professors, from commercial developers to conference speakers, and from every continent except Antarctica. Next, here are some highlights of things added to the cppfront compiler in the four months since the previous update linked at top.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

Decades of poor architecture guidelines and lax developer discipline resulted in the commercial-off-the-shelf components of an ERP becoming inseparable from the custom code built around it. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. Contemporary debates about app stores start from premises that could use review.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. What about security?

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

I am so pleased to see a database systems paper addressing the concerns of the application developer! To the developer, a strongly consistent system behaves exactly like a single-threaded system running on a single node, so reasoning about the behaviour of the system is simple 1. VLDB’19. We’re not there yet!

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

“It’s written in ones and zeroes - binary code. At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with strings of ones and zeroes. When you program in machine language, you are controlling the computer at its brainstem, the root of its existence. For example in the code: 1. . “Is this another analogy?”

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Hence the DSLabs framework integrates model checking into a holistic distributed systems development environment (based on Java as the implementation language – it would be neat to see a Rust version!).

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Traditional IT projects are mass economy-of-scale exercises: once development begins, armies of developers are unleashed. So in Traditional IT we stage large volumes of work to keep the largest and most expensive pool of people – developers – busy in the hopes of maximizing their productive effort.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. If you peek under the hood of an ML-powered application, these days you will often find a repository of Python code. Why: Data Makes It Different.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These vulnerabilities arise due to the complexity of interactions between namespaces, a large number of historical decisions during kernel development, and leaky abstractions like the proc filesystem in Linux. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces Fortunately, Linux has a solution?—?User User Namespaces.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

We’ve all seen it: the project that reports “green” status on its stop-and- go light report for months suddenly goes red in the late stages of development. Program Management Offices (PMOs) are at the nexus of this. Code has been written, but it may not be functional, let alone useful. Is it the business analyst? The QA tester?

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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. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

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