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Over the past few months, I’ve been invited to be a guest on several podcasts that focus on DevOps and software engineering. I’m posting links to those below, for those who are interested. You can find these podcasts on iTunes or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. MORE
finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. MORE
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring? MORE
Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world. Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Who's Hiring? MORE
A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. As software architects, we have to make the same challenging choices. MORE
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring? MORE
The world’s greatest chefs never put anything on the plate that will never be eaten, this rule corresponds to the YAGNI principle in Software Engineering. Readable code is usable code. MORE
Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. you will get exactly what you pay for…low-performing software teams. MORE
Do your customers keep complaining about bugs in your software application? If you answered yes , then you probably have issues with the quality of your software application. tutorial performance ux software engineering software quality legacy code sonarqube sonarlintDoes it take you too much time to implement new features? Here are 6 practical steps that you could follow, to improve its quality. Stop Creating New Quality Issues. MORE
This can be a challenge for engineering teams: engineers can be less social and more competitive than non-engineers. The post Team building in software engineering appeared first on Tasktop Blog. EngineeringWhen you come in to work, do your teammates greet you? Are jokes told on your team? E specially bad ones? Do you chat about anything besides work? Trust is essential to teams. MORE
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server When executing a query to enumerate the locks, such as select * from sys.dm_tran_locks, tran_locks, how does SQL Server scan the locks and avoid impacting the overall concurrency? MORE
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Today I was tracking a large BCP.exe ‘IN’ operation and monitoring the sys.dm_exec_requests exec_requests entries. The ‘BULK INSERT’ command entry appeared, showing the CPU, reads, writes, … but these values where getting reset from time to time. Here are 3 snapshots from my system. cpu_time total_elapsed_time writes session_id start_time command. MORE
Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic. MORE
Billy Wolfington, Senior Software Engineer Migrating from the community packages There are two existing MongoDB packages, both of which work only for NServiceBus version 6. MORE
Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . Disclaimer: Newsha is a Research Scientist at Baidu and Lena is a Software Engineer at Google. MORE
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. An example of the error: The application does a buffered write and receives success. MORE
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. When Creating, Renaming or Deleting (remove/unlinking) a file, Linux requires the direct parent directory to be synchronized. As documented in the manpage for fsync core changes to the directory require the directory itself to be synchronized. Calling fsync does not ensure that the entry in the directory containing the file has also reached disk. MORE
Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. MORE
The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations , I’ve been asked about the 737Max repeatedly over the past week. MORE
Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. software-engineering netflix failover fault-tolerance microservices MORE
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. MORE
To make the investigation a bit more interesting the LOGIN_STATS lock type is one of a handful of lock types that is partitioned by the SQL Server Engine. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server MORE
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server Previous posts have discussed partitioning, for example, a partitioned memory object [link] and how a latch maintains the desired access (exclusive, shared, …) [link]. Quick Refresher Over Partitioned Protection/Locking. MORE
XE_Engine::EventFireEnd 03 sqllang!GenericEvent::FireEnd Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. You need to make sure to order the events by event_sequence when doing analytics on the XEvent data. MORE
I’ll leave you with another reminder that if you want to play with it, the labs environment and assignments can all be found on GitHub … Uncategorized Distributed Systems Software EngineeringTeaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., MORE
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring? MORE
Our survey results indicate that their approaches to software development exhibit the following distinctive practices: Innovators deploy more frequently to production . Break down software into smaller chunks. Microservices are often the best approach to breaking down software. MORE
In this article, San Francisco-based software engineer Yijun Liu reflects on his experiences working with … The post Re-Architecting Cash and Digital Wallet Payments for India with Uber Engineering appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Business Intelligence Cash Payment Digital Wallets Engineering ExploreIndia Mobile Payments Payments Efficiency Team Uber Uber Bangalore Uber India Engineering MORE
Last time out we looked at machine learning at Microsoft , where we learned among other things that using an online controlled experiment (OCE) approach to rolling out changes to ML-centric software is important. Uncategorized Software Engineering MORE
The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. I was drawn to Tasktop because of its strong impact on the software development industry. Software Engineers, was introduced to the fundamental concepts and tools on which Tasktop is built. Looking for a career in software development? MORE
antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time: Halloween is early. Do you know what's hiding inside your computer? Probably not. bloomberg ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. MORE
Nine and a half months after launch, in September 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was programmed to fire its main engine to achieve an elliptical orbit around Mars. Space Software Development Programming Software Architecture MORE
Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world. Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Who's Hiring? MORE
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring? MORE
Our very first mobile app is called Prodicle and was built for Android & iOS using the same reactive architecture in both platforms, which allowed us to build 2 apps from scratch in 3 months with 4 software engineers. MORE
Throughout my career as a software engineer, many people have told me that learning to write code is difficult. I challenge this claim. The real difficulty lies in the fact that most people are taught computer science before they are taught to write code. MORE
What was interesting was that here was an engineer that I would have hired in a heartbeat and yet his performance during the interview was incredibly mediocre. I recently gave a friend a mock interview. He was trying to prepare for a big interview and needed practice. MORE
Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Respondents were well spread across data and applied science (42%), software engineering (32%), program management (17%), research (7%) and other (1%). MORE
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 caching software-architecture programming open-source software-engineering MORE
Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). MORE
degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. ChAP runs chaos engineering experiments within Netflix’s production systems. Uncategorized Operations Software Engineering MORE
pub-sub software-engineering microservices netflixBy Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. MORE
2018 marks the fourth year of O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference , a software engineering event focused on providing hands-on training experiences for technologists at all levels of an organization—from experienced developers up through CTOs. MORE
Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. MORE
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The Morning Paper
JULY 7, 2019
Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., Respondents were well spread across data and applied science (42%), software engineering (32%), program management (17%), research (7%) and other (1%).
Tasktop
MAY 31, 2019
This can be a challenge for engineering teams: engineers can be less social and more competitive than non-engineers. The post Team building in software engineering appeared first on Tasktop Blog. EngineeringWhen you come in to work, do your teammates greet you? Are jokes told on your team? E specially bad ones? Do you chat about anything besides work? Trust is essential to teams.
Strategic Tech
MARCH 26, 2019
Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. you will get exactly what you pay for…low-performing software teams.
Professor Beekums
MARCH 11, 2016
What was interesting was that here was an engineer that I would have hired in a heartbeat and yet his performance during the interview was incredibly mediocre. I recently gave a friend a mock interview. He was trying to prepare for a big interview and needed practice.
Tasktop
MAY 23, 2019
The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. I was drawn to Tasktop because of its strong impact on the software development industry. Software Engineers, was introduced to the fundamental concepts and tools on which Tasktop is built. Looking for a career in software development?
J. Paul Reed
MARCH 14, 2019
The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations , I’ve been asked about the 737Max repeatedly over the past week.
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 16, 2019
pub-sub software-engineering microservices netflixBy Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging.
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 caching software-architecture programming open-source software-engineering
DZone
JUNE 25, 2019
Do your customers keep complaining about bugs in your software application? If you answered yes , then you probably have issues with the quality of your software application. tutorial performance ux software engineering software quality legacy code sonarqube sonarlintDoes it take you too much time to implement new features? Here are 6 practical steps that you could follow, to improve its quality. Stop Creating New Quality Issues.
The Morning Paper
JULY 4, 2019
degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. ChAP runs chaos engineering experiments within Netflix’s production systems. Uncategorized Operations Software Engineering
The Morning Paper
APRIL 16, 2019
I’ll leave you with another reminder that if you want to play with it, the labs environment and assignments can all be found on GitHub … Uncategorized Distributed Systems Software EngineeringTeaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al.,
The Morning Paper
JULY 9, 2019
Last time out we looked at machine learning at Microsoft , where we learned among other things that using an online controlled experiment (OCE) approach to rolling out changes to ML-centric software is important. Uncategorized Software Engineering
Strategic Tech
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work.
Strategic Tech
AUGUST 26, 2018
A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. As software architects, we have to make the same challenging choices.
DZone
AUGUST 21, 2019
Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic.
Particular Software
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Billy Wolfington, Senior Software Engineer Migrating from the community packages There are two existing MongoDB packages, both of which work only for NServiceBus version 6.
High Scalability
OCTOBER 5, 2018
antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time: Halloween is early. Do you know what's hiding inside your computer? Probably not. bloomberg ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.
SQL Server According to Bob
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server Previous posts have discussed partitioning, for example, a partitioned memory object [link] and how a latch maintains the desired access (exclusive, shared, …) [link]. Quick Refresher Over Partitioned Protection/Locking.
O'Reilly Software
JANUARY 12, 2018
2018 marks the fourth year of O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference , a software engineering event focused on providing hands-on training experiences for technologists at all levels of an organization—from experienced developers up through CTOs.
ACM Sigarch
APRIL 8, 2019
Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . Disclaimer: Newsha is a Research Scientist at Baidu and Lena is a Software Engineer at Google.
Professor Beekums
MAY 19, 2016
Throughout my career as a software engineer, many people have told me that learning to write code is difficult. I challenge this claim. The real difficulty lies in the fact that most people are taught computer science before they are taught to write code.
SQL Server According to Bob
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server When executing a query to enumerate the locks, such as select * from sys.dm_tran_locks, tran_locks, how does SQL Server scan the locks and avoid impacting the overall concurrency?
SQL Server According to Bob
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. When Creating, Renaming or Deleting (remove/unlinking) a file, Linux requires the direct parent directory to be synchronized. As documented in the manpage for fsync core changes to the directory require the directory itself to be synchronized. Calling fsync does not ensure that the entry in the directory containing the file has also reached disk.
DZone
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
The world’s greatest chefs never put anything on the plate that will never be eaten, this rule corresponds to the YAGNI principle in Software Engineering. Readable code is usable code.
Baron Schwartz
MAY 20, 2019
Over the past few months, I’ve been invited to be a guest on several podcasts that focus on DevOps and software engineering. I’m posting links to those below, for those who are interested. You can find these podcasts on iTunes or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Uber Engineering
JUNE 19, 2017
In this article, San Francisco-based software engineer Yijun Liu reflects on his experiences working with … The post Re-Architecting Cash and Digital Wallet Payments for India with Uber Engineering appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Business Intelligence Cash Payment Digital Wallets Engineering ExploreIndia Mobile Payments Payments Efficiency Team Uber Uber Bangalore Uber India Engineering
Dynatrace
AUGUST 9, 2019
Our survey results indicate that their approaches to software development exhibit the following distinctive practices: Innovators deploy more frequently to production . Break down software into smaller chunks. Microservices are often the best approach to breaking down software.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 25, 2019
Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning.
SQL Server According to Bob
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
To make the investigation a bit more interesting the LOGIN_STATS lock type is one of a handful of lock types that is partitioned by the SQL Server Engine. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server
SQL Server According to Bob
APRIL 1, 2019
XE_Engine::EventFireEnd 03 sqllang!GenericEvent::FireEnd Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. You need to make sure to order the events by event_sequence when doing analytics on the XEvent data.
Percona
JANUARY 3, 2019
Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).
cdemi
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Nine and a half months after launch, in September 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was programmed to fire its main engine to achieve an elliptical orbit around Mars. Space Software Development Programming Software Architecture
SQL Server According to Bob
AUGUST 7, 2018
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Today I was tracking a large BCP.exe ‘IN’ operation and monitoring the sys.dm_exec_requests exec_requests entries. The ‘BULK INSERT’ command entry appeared, showing the CPU, reads, writes, … but these values where getting reset from time to time. Here are 3 snapshots from my system. cpu_time total_elapsed_time writes session_id start_time command.
SQL Server According to Bob
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. An example of the error: The application does a buffered write and receives success.
High Scalability
JUNE 4, 2019
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring?
High Scalability
JANUARY 8, 2019
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring?
The Netflix TechBlog
MAY 30, 2019
Our very first mobile app is called Prodicle and was built for Android & iOS using the same reactive architecture in both platforms, which allowed us to build 2 apps from scratch in 3 months with 4 software engineers.
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.
High Scalability
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring?
High Scalability
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike older enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. Who's Hiring?
High Scalability
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world. Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Who's Hiring?
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world. Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Who's Hiring?
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