Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Some of the techniques I have used that have proven to be effective are: Resting awareness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Reflection, Body scanning, Visualization, Note-taking, Mindful programming. Here, I go about my programming tasks as usual but I try to remain aware of myself as I do it. The last one is the meat of my routine.

Programming 102

Programming Energy Code Processing 102

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. A change to such parameters requires the postmaster — the main process of the PostgreSQL — to restart. If, at all, there is any crash in between, I am OK to perform the ETL again. Type "help" for help.

Database 105

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 105

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”. If you’re using best practices and keeping web performance in mind, you shouldn’t need to worry about being badged.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The unstated assumption behind this discussion is that, if we don’t reduce the workforce as routine tasks get taken over by machines, we need to re-skill them so that they can move into other parts of the institution and perform a different set of tightly specified and highly standardized tasks. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

Tasktop

OCTOBER 23, 2020

We believe that diverse teams perform better and foster an environment of belonging and inclusion. The code base has an open review process that every engineer can learn from with each change. We enjoy social hours such as team lunches, team exercises and happy hours. Would exercise and health be a good topic?

Tuning 52

Tuning Engineering Programming Infrastructure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. In contrast, real-time digital twins analyze incoming telemetry from each data source and track changes in its state.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. In contrast, real-time digital twins analyze incoming telemetry from each data source and track changes in its state.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Humans are biologically programmed to mistrust anything that deviates from the status quo. In a project organization, this flow is spread across teams, functions, tools, processes and even external parties like vendors. Carving out the relevant pieces for each product is an iterative process. Measuring the Flow. Subscribe now.-.

Logistics 52

Logistics Metrics Architecture Software 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unfortunately strong consistency is at odds with performance… On the other hand weak consistency models… put a tremendous burden on the application designer to reason about the complex interleavings of operations that are allowed by these weak consistency models. We’re not there yet! The decision procedure.

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The Twizzler programming model.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. This process can be messy and slow, but it never creates a political blockage for developing new capabilities for the web.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

To catch such bugs before they create havoc in production, it is important to include regression testing in the software testing process being followed by an organization. Regression tests should be performed just after the sanity testing is complete. When is Regression Testing done?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

"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." The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Normally ninja does an excellent job of saturating the system, keeping n+2 processes running at all times so that there is little idle time. Here is a zoomed-in view of one of the drops – numbers on the bottom of the timeline are seconds: My first thought was that ninja was failing to create processes quickly enough.

Processing 60

Processing Systems Code Software 60

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus is a multi-tenant system, allowing multiple teams and users to run workloads on the system, and ensuring they can all co-exist while still providing guarantees about security and performance. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. General Purpose GPU programming. From CPU to GPU.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136