O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If we train a new AI on its output, and repeat the process, what is the result? To answer these questions, I wrote a Python program that generated a long list of random numbers (1,000 elements) according to the Gaussian distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1. Do we end up with more variation, or less?

Programming 89

Programming Processing Code Artificial Intelligence 89

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Our expert Jean Louis Lormeau suggested a training program to help you become the champion in problem resolution. The training program to proactively improve your services. Let’s follow the training program, laid out by our coach Jean Louis, to become the champion of continuous improvement. Are you ready to kick some bugs?

Metrics 170

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 170

Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The process using pg_upgrade is well documented , and you can easily find the instructions with little googling. In this blog post, I will show you a particular example I faced when working with an upgrade exercise using pg_upgrade. .” ” Let’s review the case. Example case. ii postgresql-11 11.18-1.pgdg20.04+1

C++ 81

C++ Open Source Database Programming 81

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Think of Smartscape as the visualization of ‘Observability’ across Applications, Services, Processes, Hosts, and Datacenters. As I described how the Smartscape shows the relationships of host machines, processes, services, end users and their respective datacenter or enclaves, I saw them perk up. Showing a list of key processes.

Government 231

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 231

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

In contrast, a process suffering a total failure can be quickly identified, restarted, or repaired by existing mechanisms, thus limiting the failure impact. 71% of failures are triggered by a specific environment condition, input, or faults in other processes. In 13% of cases a module became a zombie with undefined failure semantics.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

It also generated a short program that implemented the widely used Miller-Rabin primality test. After fixing some obvious errors, I ran the program–and while it told me (correctly) that my number was non-prime, when compared to a known good implementation of Miller-Rabin, ChatGPT’s code made many mistakes.

Google 83

Google Programming Database Testing 83

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process. They had staffed 50 total people to the program team, while the company had staffed four QA leads (one for each contract team). This wasn't the answer that either the outsourcing vendor or the program office wanted.

Programming 59

Programming Testing Code Technology 59

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For us, skills are practices that are valuable in specific contexts, like how to operate a certain kind of machine in a particular environment or how to process certain types of paperwork in a particular business process. If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Bottom line.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

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. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

Database 99

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 99

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

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

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 ”. Unfortunately, some business owners don’t understand that buying a theme and implementing it isn’t the end of the process.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Tasktop

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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? There are working groups with people from different teams on a voluntary basis.

Tuning 52

Tuning Engineering Programming Infrastructure 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.

Logistics 52

Logistics Metrics Architecture Software 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

That paper was published back in 2014 and showed some tremendous performance benefits, so why aren’t we all programming with invariant confluent objects already?? Ideally we would have a general-purpose program that can automatically determine invariant confluence for us. ” Automating more of this process is future work.

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

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 starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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

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. Dev-QA Pairing – In addition to the code review involvement, QA can also liaison with developers while they are programming the new modules.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

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

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

No one seems to remember that your business partner all but demanded that you to pull the plug on the entire exercise just a few weeks in. It's just a different process from what we follow today, right? With success comes selective amnesia. Still, it was a success, if a success on a small scale.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45

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 Java Programming 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

Tasktop

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Navy during World War II who went on to create COBOL, one of the first programming languages? Laura concurs, suggesting that companies “s et up a mentor program for the women. A simple exercise is studying your favorite application – learn it inside and out. As Dr. Hopper reiterated, mentoring is paramount.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Education Programming 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

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. Each node runs in a single threaded event loop. So DSLabs also uses model checking. One common implementation error (i.e.,

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with strings of ones and zeroes. When you program in machine language, you are controlling the computer at its brainstem, the root of its existence. My 68k code was run on a MCU from a FreeScale IDE in Windows, so the process might as well have been indistinguishable from magic to me.

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. 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. User Namespaces.

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