The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These deceptive practices allow developers to access users’ private data without consent, undermining user privacy and giving rise to both legal and ethical concerns. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. most apps). most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

This approach is limited by what requestors can observe externally… To expose partial failures, a detector needs to exercise specific code regions with carefully-chosen payloads. Developers can also explicitly annotate an operation as @vulnerable. Developers can provide their own validator functions if desired.

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Systems Software Software Programming 98

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Chrome team explains that “we are being very mindful of our approach to setting the bar for what is considered good user experience and hope to land on something that is practically achievable by all developers.”. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Source: Chromium.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The video is on [youtube] and the demo starts at [0:50] (the slides are [here] or as a [PDF]): I'm demonstrating a tool I developed to turn my laptop's wifi signal strength into audio (someone described this as a BPF [theremin].) If you wish to develop your own BPF observability tools, start with bpftrace and only use BCC when needed.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The video is on [youtube] and the demo starts at [0:50] (the sildes are on [slideshare]): I'm demonstrating a tool I developed to turn my laptop's wifi signal strength into audio (someone described this as a BPF [theremin].) If you wish to develop your own BPF observability tools, start with bpftrace and only use BCC when needed.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. Once it's proven, you can remove the old one and decommission it.

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Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In October there will be an abundance of sessions, events, and coding activities focused on game and mobile app development. Topics include Introduction to AWS, Big Data, Compute & Networking, Architecture, Mobile & Gaming, Databases, Operations, Security, and more. What’s Happening at the AWS Loft. AWS Technical Bootcamps.

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AWS Games Education Innovation 111

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It’s the gym membership that forces you to exercise. Now, if your house is a mess, a complex web of dependencies; hundreds or thousands of applications, services and platforms; a collaboration network that spans dozens of suppliers; knowledge work that traverses tens of tools… Well, first, welcome to the Global 5000. Incrementally. .

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Storage Speed C++ DevOps 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Exercise/outdoors. Networking. Design and development. Let’s now take a look at a breakdown on how our day is being spent at work: Category. Completing actual work. Creating presentations. Cooking/Eating. Games/Leisure. I think it’s safe to say we all despise meetings, yet they seem neverending. Market research.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

The Juniper plugin is an ActiveGate Plugin written in Python, it consists of a script that connects to a Juniper Networks device and collects some facts and metrics about it. After looking at the code that spawned my threads, this is what I had: This is an error many developers faced before. Part 1 – The code as it stood.

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Code Development Metrics Network 115

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. We advocate that when you develop your performance budget, you focus on these user-centric milestones over technical milestones. Collaborate.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Five SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps Once you get started with these service-level objective examples, you can branch out to develop more targeted SLOs suited for your business. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. The gating factor in web performance ten years ago was network. Hopefully you went through the exercise of picking which rendering metric best corresponds to what you feel is a "good UX". Speed Index. Start Render. Time to First Interactive.

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Metrics Website Speed Monitoring 68

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. We looked at a hosts network devices, the flows between them and then at the process level details. But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. In today’s competitive business environment, customers demand seamless user experiences.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Across the two days, there were sixteen new sessions – delivered for the first time – based on content derived from lab exercises developed and delivered by working with Dynatrace experts and our Partner communicate to showcase Dynatrace’s newest features. Perform 2020 Dynatrace University dashboard. The results.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. ” I, thankfully, learned this early in my career, at a time when I could still refer to myself as a software developer.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Too much data requested from a database.

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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. For example, the network port at which PostgreSQL listens cannot be changed at the individual database level. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Business benefits include: Improved developer and operational productivity.

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Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

I have spent much of my career refuting bad benchmarks, and have developed such a knack for it that prior employers would not publish benchmarks unless they were approved by me. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. Networking is the easiest to check. This is really asking "what's the limiter?" Did it error?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

These overlaps and key themes will serve as a jumping-off point for developing your own principles, relevant to your team, organization, and industry. If there is strong disagreement between one or more principles that some feel should be combined while others feel should be separate, then run a dot-voting prioritization exercise.

Code 138

Code Design Education Government 138

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

I have spent much of my career refuting bad benchmarks, and have developed such a knack for it that prior employers would not publish benchmarks unless they were approved by me. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. Networking is the easiest to check. This is really asking "what's the limiter?" Did it error?

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Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Each category is centered around the responsibilities of a different team of people, and should be discussed and developed in partnership with those teams. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Each category is centered around the responsibilities of a different team of people, and should be discussed and developed in partnership with those teams. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Traditionally one of the major costs when moving data in and out of memory (be it to persistent media or over the network) is serialisation. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. in front of that memory , as we saw last week). What about security?

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Secure – DynamoDB provides fine-grained access control at the table, item, and attribute level, integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. I didn’t always make the same leap with her, but the thought exercise was fun nonetheless.

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BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. App stores, as we know them today, are a fusion of several functions: Security screens to prevent malign developer behavior on overpowered native platforms. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Hence the DSLabs framework integrates model checking into a holistic distributed systems development environment (based on Java as the implementation language – it would be neat to see a Rust version!).

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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Drew: Could it be issues as simple as … I think of everyday you see on social networks where there’s the ability for different users to direct message each other, and how that’s supposed to be a helpful little tool to enable people to take a conversation offline or out of public. ” Eva: It becomes a really big problem.

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Design Education Network Google 99

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

However these fixed functions for vertex and fragment operations eventually became too restrictive for the evolution of next generation graphics, so new GPU architectures were developed where user specific programs could be run in each of the stages of the pipeline. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database.

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214