All Things Distributed

JUNE 12, 2015

This weekend we go back in time all the way to the beginning of operating systems research. In the first SOSP conference in 1967 there were several papers that laid the foundation for the development of structured operating systems. The Working Set Model for Program Behavior , Peter J.

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Programming Operating System Virtualization Systems 96

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

Generative AI can generate tests, of course—at least it can generate unit tests, which are fairly simple. Integration tests (tests of multiple modules) and acceptance tests (tests of entire systems) are more difficult. Security is yet another issue: is an AI system able to red-team an application? Of stepped reward systems.

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Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2022

Dynatrace ONE , our customer experience program, delivers this vision by removing silos that exist in traditional customer support and success teams. The transition to the new system will be automatic and seamless. Of course, you can still open support tickets from the Support Center, but the new approach is easier and faster.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. It’s easy to imagine a lot of software professionals saying, “Of course you’ll have to know C. In the 1950s, computers were programmed in machine language.

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Programming Java C++ Design 105

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Major cloud providers such as AWS offer certification programs to help technology professionals develop and mature their cloud skills. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate: Do you already deploy, manage, and operate AWS system resources and want to learn how to perform those duties even more effectively?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Programming Languages , Codewars. Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The course includes 10 chapters, each broken down into various levels, some as many as 20-26 levels.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. Prior work has demonstrated symbolic evaluation for specific systems, but Serval introduces a general purpose approach of reusable and interoperable verifiers.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

IBM Z systems power billions of transactions each day and are used by most Fortune 500 companies. Over the years however, classic mainframe environments have been transformed, with their services frequently linked to distributed systems or an enterprise cloud. Dynatrace news. This metric helps you to understand your current workload.

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Innovation Metrics Infrastructure Programming 152

O'Reilly

AUGUST 15, 2023

Finally, we wanted to know specifically about the effect of GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and other AI-based programming tools. It’s also significant that making a commitment to a new way of programming—and these tools are nothing if not a new kind of programming—is a much bigger change than, say, signing up for a ChatGPT account.

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Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. When we need to execute any program, it should be loaded into memory first. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides.

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 84

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Is it possible to distinguish between creative output (“Write in the style of Jesmyn Ward”) and actionable output (“Write a program that converts between current prices of currencies and altcoins”)? Tracing provenance with these more complex systems will be difficult—but with RAG, we now have the tools to do it.

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Tech News Gather

APRIL 12, 2023

Agile development principles have been increasingly prevalent lately as a method for conveying excellent programming products quicker, with more noteworthy adaptability and flexibility. Quicker Time-to-Market One of the main advantages of agile development principles is the capacity to convey programming products more quickly.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Of course, Dynatrace itself is also software. Software is always at risk of attack, either by malicious programs operating in unmanned mode or by individuals using specially crafted tools. Non-privileged mode for OneAgent for Linux takes advantage of Linux System Capabilities (LSC). How does it work? in the early 2000s.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. Created by Eric Wastl, this is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. Tune in each day for an article that explores the wide range of topics in system administration.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

There are fantastic video courses out there, yet online workshops are just different. In fact, that’s why we’ve fallen in love with online workshops — and have a full program scheduled for the months to come. 5 sessions Nov 4–18 dev Early birds! Black Belt ?? Átila Fassina 6 sessions Nov 9–24 dev Early birds! Join a free 2×2.5h

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

This is the mainstream approach to load testing: recording communication between two tiers of the system and playing back the automatically created script (usually, of course, after proper correlation and parameterization). Programming. Programming API using a Load Testing Tool. Programming API using a Load Testing Tool.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today’s paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught my interest.

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Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. The goal of all this of course is to prevent attackers injecting, manipulating or abusing pointers in the runtime environment. The MIPS rows show the test suite results on a standard mips64 system. faster for system calls).

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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C++ Programming Code Testing 66

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 14, 2020

For Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning (PIRL) as we shall soon see, it’s a minimal functional language and an accompanying program sketch. Ultimately it’s that learned and interpretable (by humans as well as machines) expression that we deploy in our systems. In PIRL, Verma et al. A DSL for policies.

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Programming Network Games Processing 63

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

(and others) you don’t know distributed systems.” ” alankay1 : To summarize here, I said I love "Rocky's Boots", and I love the basic idea of "Robot Odyssey", but for end-users, using simple logic gates to program multiple robots in a cooperative strategy game blows up too much complexity for very little utility.

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

Dynatrace

JUNE 24, 2019

Our customers love Dynatrace because of our ability to automatically detect all entities and services within our customers’ monitoring environments, understand all dependencies, trace transactions end to end, and of course, the Davis AI-driven causation engine that delivers answers based on all monitored data and Dynatrace insights.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

An online investment firm discovering a system bottleneck impeding digital channel innovation , t he remarkable success that organizations are witnessing with flow-based value stream metrics provides an exciting glimpse of what’s possible. The Flow Partner Program: Unlocking the Vast Potential of Value Stream Management (VSM).

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Healthcare Innovation Government Best Practices 90

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Remember that these are calls to the operating system – kernel calls. Think about that for a moment.

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Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. What more is left to say by now?

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

Did you know that the projected market worth of massive open online courses is estimated to reach US$ 10 billion by 2023 and is anticipated to surge to US$ 48.4 Users can access interactive maps, trail recommendations, and educational content highlighting ecological systems, biodiversity, and conservation efforts. billion by 2033?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

Here, we are dealing with the web-based programs accessed by multiple users at a time. We achieve this by performing web testing on mobile and desktop browser programs. . Of course, we can, but it is going to cost huge effort, time, test lab set-up, and resources, thus, a significantly more budget. So can we do it manually?

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

For example programming interfaces that developers can use to analyze images, change text into true-to-life language or create chatbots. Of course, consistent quality also contributes to the satisfaction of the customer. But ultimately, there is something to be found for everyone who wants to define models, train them, and then scale.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Certifications, typically, are proof of the enhanced prowess in the stream for which the course has been taken. Certifications and Courses help validate as well as enhance our technical capability in a specific vertical. There are hundreds of tools through which the automation code can be written in different programming languages.

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Website Testing Programming Automotive 53

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Agile development eliminates the main problem of tradition development: you need to have a working system before you may test it, so performance testing happened at the last moment. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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Testsigma

MAY 15, 2021

Perfecto Scriptless eliminates the need to learn the programming language that creates opportunities for different people to indulge in test creation. Just like any other scriptless test automation software, a background in a programming language is not a requirement to work on ZapTest. This makes test creation easier and super fast.

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Testing Tools Artificial Intelligence Testing Programming 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.

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Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

Edge Perspectives

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I’ve long been a skeptic of massive top down programs – whether it’s companies, governments or any other institutions. Of course, we can get consumed by that exercise as well. But let me also say that I am deeply skeptical about incrementalism and lots of small moves.

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