O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

It also generated a short program that implemented the widely used Miller-Rabin primality test. After fixing some obvious errors, I ran the program–and while it told me (correctly) that my number was non-prime, when compared to a known good implementation of Miller-Rabin, ChatGPT’s code made many mistakes.

Google 83

Google Programming Database Testing 83

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process. It had licensed a workflow technology and contracted a large number of people to code and configure a custom solution around it. This wasn't the answer that either the outsourcing vendor or the program office wanted.

Programming 59

Programming Testing Code Technology 59

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.

Database 103

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 103

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. In contrast, real-time digital twins analyze incoming telemetry from each data source and track changes in its state.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. In contrast, real-time digital twins analyze incoming telemetry from each data source and track changes in its state.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”. Unfortunately, some business owners don’t understand that buying a theme and implementing it isn’t the end of the process.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

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 aim to continually learn, evolve and be better versions of ourselves.

Tuning 52

Tuning Engineering Programming Infrastructure 52

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

That paper was published back in 2014 and showed some tremendous performance benefits, so why aren’t we all programming with invariant confluent objects already?? Ideally we would have a general-purpose program that can automatically determine invariant confluence for us. ” Automating more of this process is future work.

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. " The eventual Blink fork was precipitated by an insurmountable difficulty in doing precisely what Apple suggested to Congress: contributing code upstream to WebKit to enable new features. It's worth assessing these claims from most easily falsified to most contested.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

"Appiness" is an illusion, an arbitrary line drawn to include programs built on some platforms but not others, and all of today's OSes allow multiple platforms to expose "real apps." Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Tasktop

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Navy during World War II who went on to create COBOL, one of the first programming languages? We all know about the genius of Alan Turing in cracking the Enigma code, turning WWII in the Allies’ favor. Laura concurs, suggesting that companies “s et up a mentor program for the women. What excites you about it?

Technology 40

Technology Technology Education Programming 40

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Normally ninja does an excellent job of saturating the system, keeping n+2 processes running at all times so that there is little idle time. Here is a zoomed-in view of one of the drops – numbers on the bottom of the timeline are seconds: My first thought was that ninja was failing to create processes quickly enough.

Processing 60

Processing Systems Code Software 60

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. The hardest part of the class for many students is learning to think about their code as inherently distributed.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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?”

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments. Who did what and when?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138