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cppfront: Spring update

Sutter's Mill

This update covers Acknowledgments, and highlights of what’s new in the compiler and language since last time, including: simple, mathematically safe, and efficient chained comparisons named break and continue “simple and safe” starts with. In today’s C++, this kind of comparison silently compiles but is a bug.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Developers can simply specify a few sample phrases and the information required to complete a user's task, and Lex builds the deep learning based intent model, guides the conversation, and executes the business logic using AWS Lambda. Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console.

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Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs

The Morning Paper

As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. Which I’m quite happy to see as my most recent data pipeline is based around Lambda, S3, and Athena, and it’s been working great for my use case. The design space. Key findings.

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GotW #102 Solution: Assertions and “UB” (Difficulty: 7/10)

Sutter's Mill

its results if call sites call it in a way that violates the precondition the assertion is testing. The requirements that are reasonably checkable should be written as code so that the caller can perform the checks when testing their code. Violating the assertion does not result in undefined behavior directly.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud. We didn’t attempt to define serverless precisely, but for many people in our audience, serverless means “function-as-a-service” (for example, AWS Lambda). This number balloons to about 37% of companies with between one and 100 employees.

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