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Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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Where programming languages are headed in 2020

O'Reilly

As we enter a new decade, we asked programming experts?—including Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers , boosting the language’s already strong adoption. including several of our own O’Reilly authors and instructors?—for

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. The managed service runs on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Networking. Kubernetes provides a basic networking model.

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. 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. In short, play by our rules or don’t play.

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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve. Anyone who works in programming has seen the source code for some project evolve from something short, sweet, and clean to a seething mass of bits.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. The core of a microservice design pattern aims to make each discrete subset of system functionality into its own self-contained unit, known as a microservice.

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Towards federated learning at scale: system design

The Morning Paper

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. The FL Plan is also represented by a Python program. SysML 2019. Federated Averaging.

Systems 71