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Podcast: Ann Lewis Discusses the Political Tech Landscape, MoveOn’s Architecture, and Scaling Challenges

InfoQ

For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role. By Ann Lewis.

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A use case for sp_prepare / sp_prepexec

SQL Performance

There are features many of us shy away from, like cursors, triggers, and dynamic SQL. There is no question they each have their use cases, but when we see a trigger with a cursor inside dynamic SQL, it can make us cringe (triple whammy). Plan guides and sp_prepare are in a similar boat: if you saw me using one of them, you'd raise an eyebrow; if you saw me using them together, you'd probably check my temperature.

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GotW #97 Solution: Assertions (Difficulty: 4/10)

Sutter's Mill

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). [1,2] How well do we understand them… exactly? 1. What is an assertion, and what is it used for? An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find p

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences.