Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Recent work. halt_loop: while ( true ). a “gadget.”)

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. Combined with (delayed) advanced graphics APIs and threading support, WebXR enables critical immersive, low-friction commerce and entertainment on the web. Shape Detection.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. A lot of people got it and learned to love SMF.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). So it just makes sense to instantiate microservices at the level of the virtual machine (VM), as distinct to that of the container. Figure 2: Respondent industries.

Database 135

Database Architecture Education Systems 135