O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

Lessons from hundreds of development practice assessments across the industry. For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I at the Software Improvement Group (SIG) have been in the business of evaluating the quality of code, architecture, and development practices for our customers. Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017.

Software 73

Software Software Development Code 73

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 23, 2018

In my last post I promised to give more details about some rabbit holes that I went down during the investigation, including page tables, locks, WMI, and a vmmap bug. Those details are here, along with updated code samples. But first, a really quick summary of the original issue: In the last post I talked about how every time a CFG-enabled process allocates executable memory some Control Flow Guard (CFG) memory is allocated as well.

Operating System 58

Operating System Code Processing Systems 58

Percona Community

AUGUST 23, 2018

I was recently asked a question by mail about MySQL Lossless Semi-Synchronous Replication. As I think the answer could benefit many people, I am answering it in a blog post. The answer brings us to the internals of transaction committing, of semi-synchronous replication, of MySQL (server) crash recovery, and of storage engine (InnoDB) crash recovery.

Storage 52

Storage Servers Engineering 52

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

Allez pictured at the rim of Crater Lake, Oregon I wanted a Citroen SM when I was a teenager in the 1970s, I bought one in 1999. This is the story of me and my car, and I will update it as I gather pictures and details of the car online, and decide on it’s eventual destination. After 19 years with Allez, I’m not driving it often enough, and feel that it’s a good time for someone else to enjoy the car.

Speed 40

Speed Engineering Automotive Systems 40