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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

We need a different strategy for overcoming failure, one that builds on experience and takes advantage of the knowledge people have but somehow also makes up for our inevitable human inadequacies. In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

Internet 111
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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. MovableType really was before its time. A site with 100k pages could take upwards of an hour to build.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. What will cause those trends to end, and what strategies will the business need to adopt? Automating this process is simple.

Games 141
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GotW #97 Solution: Assertions (Difficulty: 4/10)

Sutter's Mill

(There are advanced techniques that involve dumping and restarting an isolated portion of possibly tainted state, but that’s a system-level recovery strategy for an impossible-to-handle fault, not a handling strategy for run-time error.) C++ Coding Standards (Addison-Wesley, 2004). 67-9, June 1949). [3] Sutter and A. Stroustrup.

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NServiceBus now supports Microsoft Extensions DependencyInjection

Particular Software

StructureMap and Castle Windsor were released in 2004, Spring.NET in 2005, and more after that, each with their own unique API, some more opinionated than others. Since there is no clear upgrade strategy for these containers, we aren't taking the step of deprecating those packages yet.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. The authors tried three different strategies over time for transactions, each of them resulting in either significant performance or complexity overhead. S3), RADOS block device (cf. The first implementation (c. Making metadata operations fast.

Storage 64