All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In my keynote at AWS re:Invent today, I announced 13 new features and services (in addition to the 15 we announced yesterday). My favorite parts of James Bond movies is are where 007 gets to visit Q to pick up and learn about new tools of the trade: super-powered tools with special features which that he can use to complete his missions, and, in some cases, get out of some nasty scrapes.

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Back in June, Bob Dorr gave you the thinking behind why SQL Server 2016 It Just Runs Faster due to changes in our SQL Server and NUMA configurations. Bob blogged about a new SQL Server 2016 feature called Auto Soft NUMA. As I’ve hit the road and talked more about SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster , I’ve received some questions about how Auto Soft NUMA works and how to recognize how SQL Server detects a NUMA configuration and makes decisions to partition it even further.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In the previous post , we saw there are quite a few similarities between the Patrol method and self-directed Agile teams. It stands to reason that the resistance, doubt and objections faced by each from sponsors, leaders and members alike will be very similar. If that's the case, one can learn from the other. These excerpts from the 1950s edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook will sound familiar if you've ever tried to implement a self-directed Agile team: " Some don't grasp the possibilities of

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The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

CSS is usually a subject I avoid due to me being artistically illiterate, but recently a student of mine asked me an interesting question regarding theming an Angular NativeScript application with dynamic CSS files loaded at runtime. Given the nature of Angular, it becomes difficult to load files at runtime because of how Angular compiles and builds projects.

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Professor Beekums

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Code reviews are seen as an essential part of software development. It makes a lot of sense to say that a programmer should have their work reviewed by another programmer. Authors and journalists have their work reviewed by an editor after all. Humans make mistakes and creators especially get a little tunnel vision when they are focused on making their creations.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

From the early days of Amazon, Machine learning (ML) has played a critical role in the value we bring to our customers. Around 20 years ago, we used machine learning in our recommendation engine to generate personalized recommendations for our customers. Today, there are thousands of machine learning scientists and developers applying machine learning in various places, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection.

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