High Scalability

MARCH 4, 2019

How is software developed at Amazon? Get a couple of prime pizzas delivered and watch this excellent interview with Ken Exner, GM of AWS Developer Tools. It's notable Ken is from the tools group, because progress in an industry is almost always made possible by the development of better tools. The key themes from the talk: decomposition, automation, and organize around the customer.

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Software Software Development AWS 279

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 4, 2019

Almost two years ago I had written a tutorial around 2FA in a Node.js API with time-based one-time passwords. If you’re unfamiliar, two-factor authentication is becoming the norm, which it wasn’t necessarily back in 2017. If you’re managing user accounts in your web applications, it is critical that you offer your users a second factor of authentication to prevent phishing and malicious login attempts.

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Development 64

John McCalpin

MARCH 4, 2019

While working on the implementation of the MPI version of the STREAM benchmark, I realized that there were some subtleties in timing that could easily lead to inaccurate and/or misleading results. This post is a transcription of my notes as I looked at the issues… Primary requirement: I want a measure of wall clock time that is guaranteed to start before any rank does work and to end after all ranks have finished their work.

Programming 40

Programming Benchmarking Code Availability 40

Baron Schwartz

MARCH 4, 2019

Having recently written quite a bit about email and communication, I want to turn to some of my backlog of thoughts on calendaring, scheduling, and meetings. I have learned a lot of techniques that I believe make me and my colleagues more effective and efficient, but there’s one simple tip that rules them all. It’s this: don’t schedule things back-to-back —leave gaps.

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Efficiency Google Testing 40

SQL Server Performance

MARCH 4, 2019

A commonly altered setting is Maximum Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP), which controls the maximum number of CPUs that can be used in executing a single task. For example, a large query may be broken up into different parts, with each part executing threads on separate CPUs. Such a query is known as a parallel query. […].

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Tuning Performance 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year.

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Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255