The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. The Java Advent 2021 is here! The project started in 2012 with the idea of providing technical content during the Christmas Advent period, so keep looking for nice things under the Java Christmas tree! Amy Dutton on Twitter. If you prefer a puzzle over an article, take a look at Advent of Code.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, If desired, it could be rewritten in BCC to avoid calling aplay(1).

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, You can check it out [here].

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Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

When there are multiple options for a decision, each decision outcome should be exercised before moving on to the next decision. Finally, once all the decision outcomes on the baseline path have been covered, apply the same approach to all subsequent paths until all the decision outcomes in the specified code have been exercised.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Why are iOS apps "direct metal" binaries while Android apps use Java runtimes? "Appiness" is an illusion, an arbitrary line drawn to include programs built on some platforms but not others, and all of today's OSes allow multiple platforms to expose "real apps." Is one of these more (or less) "an app"?

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