Tech News Gather

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

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. Then, using a design thinking process , ideate on the future and establish the business vision.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

When designing network segmentation programs that can help restrict lateral movement of bad actors across your infrastructure, understanding the design and flows of critical applications, whether on premise, in the cloud or containers is essential.

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Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 230

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). The resulting program preserves the original structure, and contains all vulnerable operations.

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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). For example, let’s say you enjoyed ‘ Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box.’ A fork() in the road (I hope the designers of WASI are paying attention!).

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Programming Operating System Design Systems 42

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

While it is seen as a positive for users to be able to quickly see if the site they’re loading is slow, the ethics of such a program become a little murkier. The badging program could very well have a similar effect. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Wrapping up and looking forward.

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

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. People who have exercised innate capabilities and acquired developed capabilities will be much better positioned to acquire whatever skills they need to be successful. We all have muscles as humans.

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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.

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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?

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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? However, that design issue isn’t germane to this discussion. If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable?

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

On the cppfront wiki, see the Design Note “operator=, this & that” for details. Examples like the following now work… see test file pure2-break-continue.cpp2 for more examples. outer: while i<M next i++ { // loop named "outer" //. inner: while j<N next j++ { // loop named "inner" //.

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John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

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Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

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

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

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.

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Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

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

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Hardware Mobile Java Programming 64

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance.

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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 25, 2021

Some of these are exercised by the “wrong order” permutations above, but even call sites that remember the right argument order can make mistakes about the actual values. Wrong value (1 way): Second, there is an implicit precondition that min <= max , so passing arguments where min > max would be wrong, but would silently compile.

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C++ Design Code Systems 45

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.

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Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Programs will usually start with capabilities, perform any activities that require those capabilities, and then “drop” them when the process no longer needs them. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace. User Namespaces Fortunately, Linux has a solution?

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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. 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.

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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.

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Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45