Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Make Your Organisation Irresistible to Software Engineers The easiest and cheapest way to hire good engineers is to let them come to you. Hiring is so hard?—?finding to be an elite tech company?

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Open Source Engineering Java 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Being static , it has the advantage that analysis results can be produced solely from source code without the need to execute the program. But there’s a problem: Enterprise applications represent a major failure of applying programming languages research to the real world — a black eye of the research community.

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Our checks are based on well-known problems that arise in experimental design and causal inference… PlanAlyzer checks PlanOut programs for a variety of threats to internal validity, including failures of randomization, treatment assignment, and causal sufficiency. PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point.

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast. “ We largely glue together open source components now (we didn’t do this as much, not even like 3 years ago).” Déjà Vu in action.

Open Source 52

Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Over the last couple of years the open source activities at Microsoft have accelerated all around me. When this marker is placed in the program and section header count members, it indicates that section_header[0] holds the actual count values. Commit rL293714: Open ELF core dumps with more than 64K sections.

Servers 40

Servers Programming Media Open Source 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

One of the fruits of this work is an open-source JavaScript CDRT implementation called Automerge which brings CRDT-style merge operations to JSON documents. CRDTs combine well with reactive programming to give a good developer experience. Used in conjunction with the dat:// networking stack the result is Hypermerge.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Over specialisation is considered good in industries such as healthcare and aviation but in software engineering over specialisation can be a blocker. Unlike healthcare and aviation where practices don't change over the decades, software technology is changing every day. product) don't change over a long period. Probably yes.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering delivering a large amount of business value in the process.

Cache 183

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

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. Although we added tests to catch specific issues as we learned of them, we found it difficult to keep up with the diversity of possible student errors.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. He loves the Jamstack, and his new book, Cut Into The Jamstack, teaches the reader how to build a software as a service app from scratch. It’s Chakra templates, I guess, is the open source solution to Chakra Pro or the open-source competitor.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62