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Moving HPC to the Cloud: A Guide for 2020

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Limor Maayan-Wainstein , a senior technical writer with 10 years of experience writing about cybersecurity, big data, cloud computing, web development, and more. High performance computing (HPC) enables you to solve complex problems which cannot be solved by regular computing. Traditionally, HPC solutions provided mainly supercomputers.

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Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

All Things Distributed

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. The disadvantage of this is that there is no “how to” guide for us—a lot is unknown. However, the advantage is that when we solve a new problem, it’s an opportunity to reinvent our services and create new benefits for our customers. Indeed, we have created some of our most innovative and successful ideas when we have entered unchartered territory.

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Better Tests Names Using JUnit's Display Name Generators

DZone

Writing unit tests can be challenging, but there is one thing that can get you on the right track — the test name. If you manage to give your test a good name — you will write a good test.

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content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance

CSS - Tricks

Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin: […] you can use another CSS property called content-visibility to apply the needed containment automatically. content-visibility ensures that you get the largest performance gains the browser can provide with minimal effort from you as a developer. The content-visibility property accepts several values, but auto is the one that provides immediate performance improvements.

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Testing PowerShell Code With Pester — Octopus Deploy

DZone

When you're working with any code, whether it's automation or software code, it should be treated the same way. After-all, functions are still functions and variables are still variables. One of the many things that don't come up as often when you're automating vs when you're building application code is testing. Unit testing and mock testing are extremely important in scripting and automation.

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Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

All Things Distributed

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. The disadvantage of this is that there is no “how to” guide for us—a lot is unknown. However, the advantage is that when we solve a new problem, it’s an opportunity to reinvent our services and create new benefits for our customers.

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Aligning superhuman AI with human behaviour: chess as a model system

The Morning Paper

Aligning superhuman AI with human behavior: chess as a model system , McIlroy-Young et al., KDD’20. It’s been a while, but it’s time to start reading CS papers again! We’ll ease back into it with one or two papers a week for a few weeks, building back up to something like 3 papers a week at steady state. How human-like is superhuman AI?

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Enhancements in NServiceBus Hosting

Particular Software

The.NET Generic Host has become the de facto method of hosting applications built on.NET Core. To support the generic host, we released the NServiceBus.Extensions.Hosting package to make it simple to host NServiceBus within a.NET Core process or ASP. NET Core web application using the.UseNServiceBus(…) extension method. While a massive improvement for easily hosting NServiceBus in a.NET Core process, a few rough edges remained.

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How It Works: Bulk Insert (BCP.exe) – Injecting a Sort Operation

SQL Server According to Bob

How It Works: Bulk Insert (BCP.exe) ​​ – Injecting a Sort Operation I ran across an interesting issue this week related to the use of Bulk Insert/BCP and sorting. The customer reported that they could not BCP into a table using “keepidentity” and after more debugging I found that “keepidentity” was not the ​​ issue but ​​ the issue ​​ was the addition of a ​​ clustered ​​ index.

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