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UI Design Patterns That Don't Scale

SQL Performance

I spend a large amount of time translating software requirements into schema and queries. I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. Searching is everywhere on the internet. These requirements are sometimes easy to implement but are often difficult.

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On Technique

O'Reilly

Designing the prompts to get DALL-E to do something extraordinary requires a new kind of technique that’s very different from understanding pigments and brushes. Remember that it was possible to build applications with graphical interfaces, and for those applications to communicate about the Internet, before the Web.

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How the Swedish Transport Agency learned distributed systems in six months

Particular Software

We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year. Takeaways Information-dense videos on software architecture can be difficult to consume on your own. My colleagues who’d attended it before felt the same way.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. walk into certain Amazon meetings, and you may momentarily think youve stumbled into a computer science lecture.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â

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