All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2015

Data compression today is still as important as it was in the early days of computing. Although in those days all computer and storage resources were very limited, the objects in use were much smaller than today. We have seen a shift from generic compression to compression for specific file types, especially those in images, audio and video. In this weekend's back to basic reading we go back in time, 1987 to be specific, when Leweler and Hirschberg wrote a survey paper that covers the 40 years o

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Storage 104

Nick Desaulniers

JULY 23, 2015

21st Century C by Ben Klemens. was a great read. It had a section with an intro to autotools, git, and gdb. There are a few other useful tools that came to mind that I’ve used when working with C and C++ codebases. These tools are a great way to start contributing to Open Source. C & C++ codebases; running these tools on the code or adding them to the codebases.

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C++ Programming Open Source Code 75

Tim Kadlec

JULY 28, 2015

I did a bunch of research on proxy-browsers for a few projects I worked on. Rather than sitting on it all, I figured I’d write a series of posts sharing what I learned in case it’s helpful to anyone else. This first post looks at the general architecture of proxy browsers with a performance focus. In the original story of the Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City isn’t actually green nor made entirely of emeralds.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 18, 2015

One of my Twitter followers recently asked me how to properly use a pin dialog in their Ionic Framework mobile application. Although I’ve already created a similar article regarding creating a pin unlock screen in an Ionic Framework application, I figured it might be a good idea to show how to do this with an actual dialog instead. Using the Apache Cordova PinDialog plugin by Paldom we can use native dialogs in our application and accept passwords.

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Alex Russell

JULY 2, 2015

There’s a post on the fetch() API by Ludovico Fischer doing the rounds. As a co-instigator for adding the API to the platform , it’s always a curious thing to read commentary about an API you designed, but this one more than most. It brings together the epic slog that was the Promises design (which we also waded into in order to get Service Workers done and which will improve with await/async ) with the in-process improvements that will come from Streams and it mixes it with a dollop

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Wayfair Tech

JULY 30, 2015

Performance is top priority here at Wayfair, because improved performance means an improved customer experience. A significant piece of web performance is the time it takes to render, or generate, the markup for a page. Over the last several months we've worked hard to improve the render performance on our. Read more.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization Performance Open Source 40

O'Reilly Software

JULY 22, 2015

21st Century C by Ben Klemens was a great read. It had a section with an intro to autotools, git, and gdb. There are a few other useful tools that came to mind that I’ve used when working with C and C++ codebases. These tools are a great way to start contributing to Open Source C & C++ codebases; running these tools on the code or adding them to the codebases.

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C++ Open Source Code 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Many happy developers are using DynamoDB to handle trillions of requests every day. I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 11, 2015

Previously I did a post on Simon Reimler’s blog regarding local notifications with Ionic Framework. However, there is a different kind of notification you can use in your application. In iOS and many different flavors of Android (not all), you have the opportunity to use badge indicators on your launcher icon. Although this doesn’t notify users with a prompt, it will still notify them on their home screen that something needs their attention.

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Mobile Development 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Portrait of a growing company: a corporate parent with two-thirds of its enterprise value in debt, running two separate but interdependent divisions: a capital intensive asset heavy business, and a cash generative consumer-focused operating firm. If you're the CFO, your primary concern is the debt capital that's financing your growth. You want to keep your credit rating strong to minimize the cost of rolling over debt (to finance existing assets) and the cost of raising new debt (to fund expansi

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Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40

The Polyglot Developer

JULY 5, 2015

So you’re making a mobile app using Ionic Framework and you care about the experience your users receive? Maybe you want to control the functionality of certain features based on how much battery the users device has left. An example of this is, maybe you have your application pulling remote data while the application is open. Maybe you’ve decided that if your users battery is less than 30% you want the user to have to pull-to-refresh in order to preserve battery life.

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Monitoring Mobile Performance Development 52

The Polyglot Developer

JULY 25, 2015

I’ve been blogging and making programming tutorials for about a year now and have gathered quite a following. You can see the statistics of my first year blogging in a post I recently published. With this following came a lot of topic suggestions and requests. Some of these came through Twitter , some came through the comments section of other posts I’ve done, and some came through various forum boards.

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Programming Development 40

Dean Hume

JULY 22, 2015

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to get the chance to present at UpFront Conference in Manchester. This was the inaugural year for the conference, and it was great to be apart of this event. A few people have asked about the slide deck and wanted to know more. I thought I'd add the link here along with some pictures and the video from the event.

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Dean Hume

JULY 22, 2015

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to get the chance to present at UpFront Conference in Manchester. This was the inaugural year for the conference, and it was great to be apart of this event. A few people have asked about the slide deck and wanted to know more. I thought I'd add the link here along with some pictures and the video from the event.

Website 40

Website Mobile Speed Network 40

The Polyglot Developer

JULY 3, 2015

One year ago from today, I started this code blog. I set off to help people with niche topics that I myself banged my head when trying to solve. Through the months, I’ve gotten more traffic, followers, comments, and even job offers. Here are the stats to reflect my journey as a blogger. The post My First Year Of Blogging And The Stats Around It appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

In my last post about Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS), I discussed the two key components of running modern distributed applications on a cluster: reliable state management and flexible scheduling. Amazon ECS makes building and running containerized applications simple, but how that happens is what makes Amazon ECS interesting. Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables.

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