All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

Building your applications with only managed components has become very popular, and AWS Lambda plays a crucial role in that. I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! " about teletext.io are read eagerly around the globe. If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications.

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The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 10, 2016

As a web and mobile application developer, you may come to a point where you need to worry about data and how to synchronize it between devices in platforms. PouchDB is one of a few good solutions that makes this task significantly easier. In this episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker Nolan Lawson and I discuss PouchDB and how it is being used in a lot of modern applications, both web and mobile.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 5, 2016

Ada pitched into the conversation about the state of PWAs — particularly Chrome’s heuristics which prompted a Twitter discussion about some of the finer points of the user and developer experience. The background to these conversations is that today, the way users learn that they can install a Progressive Web App is via a prompt browsers decide to show at their discretion.

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Design Internet Internet Engineering 47

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

My recent posts. [link]. [link]. have generated discussions about the SSE and AVX support boundaries. As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. The inquiries have centered around the support boundaries of the SSE and AVX instructions. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use.

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The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 6, 2016

So you’ve released this great application that you developed using NativeScript by Progress. The problem you might be facing now is that no one is rating or reviewing your mobile application. This may be related to the fact that it takes a bit of time to find an app in the app store and then leave a rating. A great solution to this is to prompt the user to rate your application and be automatically redirected to the app store listing should they agree to leave you a rating.

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Mobile Development 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 9, 2016

SQL Server, as outlined in the following post ( [link] ) adjusts to various processor configurations. I have received questions related to how SQL Server accomplishes the alignment on both bare metal and VM installations. The key is the GetLogicalProcessorInformation API, and the same logic occurs on bare metal and VM based SQL Server installations.

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