O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. Second: Copilot was trained on the body of code in GitHub. The model will certainly need to be re-trained from time to time.

Code 120

Code Programming C++ Testing 120

Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Participation in the anonymous program is optional. Download Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.34-26

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach which enables training on a large corpus of decentralized data residing on devices like mobile phones. No individual updates are stored in the cloud, and no training data leaves the device.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Executing cutting-edge intelligent apps’ deployment after successful training becomes much easier thanks primarily to this functionality made possible!

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Another group of cases involving text (typically novels and novelists) argue that using copyrighted texts as part of the training data for a Large Language Model (LLM) is itself copyright infringement, 1 even if the model never reproduces those texts as part of its output. Is an artist’s style copyrightable, and if so, what does that mean?

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

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Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Participation in the anonymous program is optional. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.5

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Open Source Azure Servers Programming 83

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Participation in the anonymous program is optional. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.17

Monitoring 90

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. Observability means taking application performance management (APM) to the next level.

Cloud 172

Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 172

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Such a combination requires new abstractions and programming models for effective management.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS. This is exciting because we are seeing AI and ML-driven applications maturing rapidly as a way of mastering performance in hybrid, hyper-scale cloud environments.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 144

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks. Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The focus has shifted to non-functional testing, including running security tests, API & workflow-based performance testing, Chaos Engineering, compatibility testing, etc. API Tests are faster to design, execute and maintain. Performance or security tests are seen as a part of ‘hardening’ or release-level sprints.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. And the final paragraph of section 3.9.4

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

There are hundreds of tools through which the automation code can be written in different programming languages. Edureka typically provides Instructor-led training courses which help aspiring candidates to learn interactively. They also provide online interactive training and self-paced training (all delivered via the internet).

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Website Testing Programming Automotive 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 14, 2020

For Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning (PIRL) as we shall soon see, it’s a minimal functional language and an accompanying program sketch. For a given task, a program template (which the authors call a sketch ), further constrains the set of programs that can be learned for the problem in hand.

Programming 63

Programming Network Games Processing 63

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. GPU and TPU).

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Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

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. Music education and instrument training apps Unleash the musical potential within users through an app that offers comprehensive music lessons and instrument training.

Education 52

Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. As she saw it, designers approached the problem of automation as if the human factor were not , in fact, a factor. Unlike humans, a software robot doesn’t get tired, bored, or distracted, especially when its performing a tedious or repetitive task.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. Models have a provenance tag explaining which data it has been trained on and which version of the model was used.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Some of the techniques I have used that have proven to be effective are: Resting awareness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Reflection, Body scanning, Visualization, Note-taking, Mindful programming.

Programming 102

Programming Energy Code Processing 102

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. Learning: Sauce Labs offers comprehensive documentation for training; they also have a rich community that you can seek help from. Testsigma offers training and a knowledge base that helps in learning the tool.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Entertainment 52

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But a recent discussion of Google’s new Large Language Models (LLMs), and its claim that one of these models (named Gopher) has demonstrated reading comprehension approaching human performance , has spurred some thoughts about comprehension, ambiguity, intelligence, and will.

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Artificial Intelligence Testing Engineering Programming 117

Edge Perspectives

MARCH 26, 2019

On the other hand, it’s generating mounting performance pressure. Our imperative is to find ways to harness the expanding opportunities while responding to the mounting performance pressure. All large institutions have learning programs, but these programs focus on transmitting existing knowledge. Of course it matters.

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Efficiency Scalability Innovation Programming 89

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2020

The automation testing team can plan internal training sessions to discuss the automation testing approach. This includes test designing as well as execution effort. Understanding of programming languages : To be a successful automation tester, the tester should have a good understanding of programming languages.

Testing Tools 61

Testing Tools Programming Testing DevOps 61

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

It contains “a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries.” With this fixed, a FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK is performed before the fetching of GTID_EXECUTED to ensure its value is consistent with the snapshot taken by mysqldump.

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 80

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The findings from our 2023 Open Source Database Report highlight that a substantial 42% of all database instances are now licensed through community-supported open source models, and GitHub reports that over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have established open source program offices (OSPO) to coordinate and manage their open source initiatives.

Open Source 96

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

With just a year at UBC’s Computer Science program and a couple of personal projects under my belt, I was initially uncertain of how my skills and experience would translate into a professional work environment. I began my co-op term at Tasktop with two weeks of boot camp-style training. I, along with a handful of other Jr.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 40

Testsigma

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In general, 92% of the organizations , including startups and, large enterprises perform some automation with the help of tools. The first step is to have a stable and well-designed manual testing process and right test cases in place. Follow programming design principles. You can find the full report here. Smoke Tests.

Testing 40

Testing Testing Tools Open Source Programming 40

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The test cases are coded by writing scripts in any programming language like Java, Python, Ruby etc. The upfront time required in writing the scripts for test cases, creation of the framework, training the team and maintenance is reduced considerably. What is codeless test automation ? Time Efficiency. Easier Maintenance. Better ROI.

Testing 59

Testing Testing Tools Code DevOps 59

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A code smell is basically any characteristic in the code of a program that has a negative impact on the design quality. Even if you are considering using an open-source tool such as Selenium or Appium, there is a level of investment required in training the testers to use these frameworks. Fixing Code Smell.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

That ‘ideate’ phase includes planning, creating business cases, and UX design to name but a few key activities– very creative and technical work that plays a crucial role in meeting end user needs. Clever Value Stream Architecture designs for speed, visibility and traceability and it relies on APIs and abstraction. Its toolchain.

Development 45

Development DevOps Google Innovation 45