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JUNE 15, 2023

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. In addition, it can also inculcate resources such as articles, podcasts, and breathing exercises to help users develop coping strategies and resilience.

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Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Implications of the ‘Badge of Shame’ At face value, this visual marker would provide a very clear and urgent incentive for developers to build their site in a performant, optimized way using today’s best practices. The badging program could very well have a similar effect. Wrapping up and looking forward.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? If I am analyzing (apparent) performance shortfalls, how can I distinguish between cause and effect ? The processor hardware available to support shared-memory transport.

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Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. 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. PLOS’19.

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The unstated assumption behind this discussion is that, if we don’t reduce the workforce as routine tasks get taken over by machines, we need to re-skill them so that they can move into other parts of the institution and perform a different set of tightly specified and highly standardized tasks. We all have muscles as humans.

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Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

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. For example, I want to connect to the database to perform some bulk data loading and manipulation (ETL), and I don’t want to wait for any WAL writing. But this can be specified at the subsequent levels also.

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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 58

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? Given a search string, it’s simple for Google to perform the search, take the top few results, and then send them to a language model for summarization.

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Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unfortunately strong consistency is at odds with performance… On the other hand weak consistency models… put a tremendous burden on the application designer to reason about the complex interleavings of operations that are allowed by these weak consistency models. So now life is easy, right?

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. The mock development environment is shown below: Once a model has been created, it can be tested using a client test program that sends messages that simulate the behavior of one or more data sources.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. The mock development environment is shown below: Once a model has been created, it can be tested using a client test program that sends messages that simulate the behavior of one or more data sources.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. 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.

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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.

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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." In '07, safety implied an unacceptable performance hit on slow single-core devices with 128MiB of RAM.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Thank you to the following for their feedback on drafts of this material: Howard Hinnant (lead designer and author of move semantics), Jens Maurer, Arthur O’Dwyer, Geoffrey Romer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrew Sutton, Ville Voutilainen, Jonathan Wakely. This post is an attempt to shed light on that situation.

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C++ Testing Design Strategy 98

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus is a multi-tenant system, allowing multiple teams and users to run workloads on the system, and ensuring they can all co-exist while still providing guarantees about security and performance. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases.

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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. For 64-bit floating-point data, the 512-bit Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions performs 16 floating-point operations (8 adds and 8 multiplies).

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Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. There is a decades-long tradition of data-centric programming : developers who have been using data-centric IDEs, such as RStudio, Matlab, Jupyter Notebooks, or even Excel to model complex real-world phenomena, should find this paradigm familiar.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. General Purpose GPU programming. From CPU to GPU.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136