Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

He’d programmed in the 1960s and encouraged me to learn. Software was written in Motorola 6800 assembler, using a PDP-11 running Unix V6 as a development platform. That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems.

C++ 98

C++ Software Engineering Education Engineering 98

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. It should be fast.

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Cloud Software Software Internet 83

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. To invest in formally modelling something, you really need to have a very good idea of what the software needs to do. SOSP’19.

Code 45

Code Systems Programming Google 45

High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

billion : venture investment first half of 2018; 1 billion : Utah voting system per day hack attempts; 67% : did not deploy a serverless app last year; $1.8 Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier.

Internet 135

Internet Internet Scalability AWS 135

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Software Engineering Programming 78

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. PHP is a popular server-side programming language due to its simplicity of use, vast functionality, and robust community support. In this post, we’ll look at why web professionals use PHP for unique website creation.

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

Tasktop

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to a generous fitness allowance program , the company is also working with a third party to provide teams with online mental health classes and workshops. Senior Systems Administrator, Michelle Santos, embraced a different type of cloud at Golden Ears Provincial Park in BC. How did Tasktopians Recharge?

Energy 52

Energy Software Engineering Education Engineering 52

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Discussion of the water positive goal and optimizations that let AWS return water directly for irrigation rather than to the sewage system. Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. It's worth looking at why.

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Software Software Development Government 73

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

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Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Open Source Engineering Java 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today’s paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught my interest.

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Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18.

DevOps 43

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Machine Leaning at Amazon.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” She works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

We captured a core dump on a 2TB RAM system. When this marker is placed in the program and section header count members, it indicates that section_header[0] holds the actual count values. You can use readelf –l or –S to see the program/section header information as well as dump the PT_LOAD.

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Servers Programming Media Open Source 40

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 137

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Ultimately, tables are stored as a sequence of bytes with some metadata elsewhere in the system to describe what each of those bytes mean, and how they relate to each of the table's various columns. It requires only a few changes to system tables, and a minimal amount of logging. Acknowledgements.

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Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

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. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 27, 2017

Breakpad’s future replacement is Crashpad but we are unable to leverage, it at this time, due to limited support for Linux systems. It uses the Linux system information to determine threads and modules in the process. Microsoft Engineer Processing Flow. However, a mini or full capture is viable for a Microsoft engineer.

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Servers Virtualization Storage Design 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. Organization size of survey respondents.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

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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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? Things got hairy.

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Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. A clear warning sign.

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Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture 64

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Warehouse engineering squad - managing software services related inventory, stocktake, dispatch, allocation, transfer, robotics, etc. Customer experience engineering squad - focus on end-to-end customer life-cycle, marketing, targeting, personalisation, loyalty, etc. You want to move fast. How is that even possible?

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. There may be alarm systems. This is why people have made a business out of setting up home stereo and video systems.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. The post The Digital Twin: A Foundational Concept for Stateful Stream Processing appeared first on ScaleOut Software.

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Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. One parting thought concerns the granularity of a digital twin.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. 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. Déjà Vu in action.

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Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183