Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise. A Web As Platform play depends on credibly keeping up with the expansion in underlying OS power to deliver safe, effective versions of important capabilities portably. A Web as Meta-Platform endgame requires that the platform continues to improve in expressive capacity.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

The application preserves detailed records of the user’s expenditures, provides assistance in the maintenance of the user’s budget, and gives the user the ability to exercise control over their own money and the flow of that money. The application is easily compatible with all the devices that use the Android operating system.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? All other browsers update "out of band" from the OS , including the WebView system component on Android. If no, please explain why not.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

HammerDB provides performance metrics that can be used to compare databases however many benchmarking tools are severely limited being available only on one operating system or supporting only one database.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Portable, safe apps returned massive benefits to users who no longer needed to LARP as systems administrators. Apple's defenders offer contradictory arguments: Browsers are essential to modern operating systems, and so iOS includes a good browser.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also awkward, an exercise of the blindfolded people describing the pachyderm. No surprise that strategic planning exercises tend to produce a lot of “what to do” options, which they present as a portfolio of strategic opportunities. Defining the opportunity through a thorough understanding what’s going on is hard. And that’s ok.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

Most Linux systems don’t require this, so Linux users should omit the leading underscores from all such names. Thus the same code may not run on two different machines with the same microarchitecture if their operating systems are incompatible at the ABI layer. This is another punt on system calls. movb $0 , %al.

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The end result is the first major update to BetterTLS since its first release : a new suite of tests to exercise TLS implementations’ certificate path building. The reason that TLS protocol can support this is because agility has been designed into the system.

Servers 165

Servers Testing Best Practices Java 165

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

About 20 percent would return a set of rows, but still operate on only a single table. The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128