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. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Programming 102

Programming Energy Code Processing 102

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Traditional monitoring tools don’t scale to dynamic cloud environments, support new technologies, provide distributed tracing nor have an Application Programming Interface (API) to integrate testing and workflow platforms. As a counterpoint to the COE challenges, we also observe some challenges within independent Agile development teams.

Strategy 180

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 180

Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s dynamic landscape of education app development as a technology has emerged as a transformative force, propelling the realm of learning forward. Through this app idea, one can prioritize the well-being of students with an app designed to support their mental health and foster a sense of mindfulness.

Education 52

Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them. After a little brainstorming we developed a custom alert that focused on items tagged as being external to this system.

Government 228

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 228

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). Developers can also explicitly annotate an operation as @vulnerable. Characterising partial failures. OmegaGen in action.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

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.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

The Morning Paper

JULY 21, 2019

In case you’re wondering, that paper was " Why functional programming matters " (revisited again on the blog 2 years later). I wonder what amazing research developments the next five years might bring us??! For example, let’s say you enjoyed ‘ Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box.’

Programming 42

Programming Operating System Design Systems 42

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This has led us to develop a contrarian view regarding another topic that is running rampant in future of work discussions. If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Once we begin to exercise, the muscles grow again. Cultivating capabilities. We all have muscles as humans. Bottom line.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

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.

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. Object-level settings PostgreSQL allows us to specify the parameter specific to a program block, like a PL/pgSQL function. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

Database 106

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 106

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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? In the year or so since ChatGPT’s release, developers have been building applications on top of the state-of-the-art foundation models. But that isn’t the end of the story.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

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!

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

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.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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. Safety is within our budget, assuming platforms don't make exotic and dangerous APIs available all programs — more on that in a second. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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. On the cppfront wiki, see the Design Note “operator=, this & that” for details.

C++ 97

C++ Virtualization Lambda Code 97

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

In some cases, if only a very few, these assets continue to be used because they still work very well, were thoughtfully designed, and have been well cared for over the years. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

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!).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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

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. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. However, the concept is quite abstract. This approach is not novel.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also awkward, an exercise of the blindfolded people describing the pachyderm. Some of this is likely a function of professional programming: if, for the totality of your career, the boss has supplied you with the reason why you do the things that you do, it isn’t natural to start a new initiative by asking “why”. And that’s ok.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

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. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. After this, the micro-ops will wait in the Reorder Buffer until they can be retired in program order. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. General Purpose GPU programming.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

That "Agile pilot" was a deliberate investment in the formation of behaviors designed to yield local (that is, team-level) optimization. Sustained, intense concentration on collaboration among consumers, designers, builders, testers and managers resulted in more experiments, more builds, more deployments, and more frequent feedback.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45