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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. What made me change was a combination of reading the SQLite and Redis codebases" <3 false myth: code should be auto-explaining. Comments tell you about the state, not the code. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. It's hard to convince students who want to write code that they should learn to think mathematically, above the code level, about what they’re doing. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. More, more, more, more, more.

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby. Ahem, Slow!

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

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Why Web Developers Choose PHP For Great Website Development?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. Because the language is based on procedural programming, developers can quickly start writing code that works. Developers can quickly learn how to use it and start making web apps because the code and instructions are easy to understand.

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PlanAlyzer: assessing threats to the validity of online experiments

The Morning Paper

To quote from the project page , “ PlanOut … was created to make it easy to run and iterate on sophisticated experiments in a statistically sound manner while satisfying the constraints of deployed Internet services. Causal sufficiency errors. Allowing an unrecorded variable to bias treatment assignment§.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ).

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