The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Naturally, you would think that there must be something wrong with the code running in it. There is no doubt that this is the most silly piece of code I’ve ever written. The code runs in a Notebook, which means it runs in the ipykernel process, that is a child process of the jupyter-lab process. The workbench has 64CPUs.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 9, 2024

Kevlin Henney and I recently discussed whether automated code generation, using some future version of GitHub Copilot or the like, could ever replace higher-level languages. As coding assistants become more accurate, it seems likely to assume that they will eventually stop being “assistants” and take over the job of writing code.

Programming 114

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This definition is essentially interactive. This is probably the definition that Agarwal has in mind. This definition isn’t interactive; it’s automating a task to make it easier for others to do. This definition isn’t interactive; it’s automating a task to make it easier for others to do.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Amplify PowerUP, our half-yearly global event to update our partner community, covered a lot of ground including key Partner Program announcements, Q2 earnings and partner contribution, market growth and momentum, Dynatrace platform capabilities, and the partner services offering the platform powers. The general agreed-upon definition of.

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O'Reilly

JULY 11, 2023

Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. He’s asking whether large language models eliminate programming as we know it, and he’s excited that the answer is “yes”: eventually, if not in the immediate future. AIs generate incorrect code, and that’s not going to end soon.

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ScaleOut Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When using the digital twin model, each data source in a physical system has a corresponding software object in the stream-processing platform as depicted here: This object encapsulates both state information and code. Using this object-oriented approach maximizes code reuse and saves development time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. Maestro high level architecture In Maestro, a workflow is a DAG (Directed acyclic graph) of individual units of job definition called Steps.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

An AI might be able to read and interpret a specification (particularly if the specification was written in a machine-readable format—though that would be another form of programming). We quickly run into an extension of Kernighan’s Law : debugging is twice as hard as writing code. What does this mean for code that you haven’t written?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Without any coding, these extensions make it easy to ingest data from these technologies and provide tailor-made analysis views and zero-config alerting. Without any coding skills required, you can declare extensions in a human-readable YAML format and activate them in your environment via the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub.

Technology 228

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset. Database Application Logic Oracle PL/SQL SQL Server T-SQL Db2 SQL PL PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL MySQL stored program language HammerDB Stored Procedures. So now our TPROC-C example from the Stock Level stored procedure on SQL Server begins as follows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are two different approaches to GraphQL development; schema-first and code-first development. The code in your service only implements this schema. With code-first development , you don’t have a schema file. Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

But its underlying goal is quite humble and straightforward: it wants to enable you to observe an IT system (for example, a web application, infrastructure, or services) and gain insight to its behavior, such as performance, error rates, hot spots of executed instructions in code, and more. Those are prime candidates for their own spans.

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Let’s look at the definition of quality to see how test automation isn’t quality assurance. One of the popular definitions of Quality is that it is “value” to someone “who” matters. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”. Martin Fowler.

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ScaleOut Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When using the digital twin model, each data source in a physical system has a corresponding software object in the stream-processing platform as depicted here: This object encapsulates both state information and code. Using this object-oriented approach maximizes code reuse and saves development time.

Programming 40

Programming IoT Java Analytics 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments. The SSPL requires a company that offers MongoDB as a service to publicly release code for all the software used to deliver that service (or have a license from MongoDB).

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 85

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. GitOps: Cloud automation as code. That’s what Cloud Automation does: SLIs, SLOs, Monitoring Definition, Automation Sequences, Tests, Deployment Definitions, etc. And it’s not just the release validation. Expand to more use cases.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Here are the resulting code and specification sizes, together with the verification runtimes (impressively short!). The basic idea is to execute the program, but with symbolic values for inputs instead of actual inputs.

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Testsigma

APRIL 8, 2020

Then the code can be refactored to improve its quality. Once the feature is developed, the test cases are automated in some programming language. Hands on with one of the programming languages (like JAVA (prefered), Python, Ruby, C#) that will be needed for automation of a test case in the backend. Image Source.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

One of the fundamental issues encountered during the annotation of our manually-labeled TVSM-test set, was the definition of music and speech. Results We evaluated our models on four open datasets comprising audio data from TV programs, YouTube clips and various content such as concert, radio broadcasts, and low-fidelity folk music.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. In essence, Java is classified as an object oriented programming language.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These include application programming interfaces, streaming, and more. This data lands in its original, raw form without requiring schema definition. Data lakehouses typically provide support for data ingestion through a variety of methods. Therefore, it contains all of an organization’s data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software that enables your product to communicate with other products and services. Using agile methodologies, developers are constantly updating code and integrating it into production services.

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Percona Community

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The term Open Source Software reminds me of Abraham Lincoln’s widely accepted definition of Democracy. Formally, Open Source refers to projects or programs whose source code can be modified, shared, and/or commercialized by the public/community at will.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. Programming Languages , Codewars. This is a straightforward flexbox playground that also generates the code for you. “code golf”).

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Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Consider both correctness and usability convenience for calling code. So avoid this shortcut; it sets a bad example for young impressionable programmers, and it can be brittle under maintenance if the code changes so that the argument could actually get moved from and its state stolen. Hopefully the answer will be super simple, too!

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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. Why: Data Makes It Different.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Deployment frequency.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. The OS programs a timer chip that then triggers an interrupt that wakes up the CPU and the OS can then schedule your thread. Some programs (WPF, SQL Server, Quartz, PowerDirector, Chrome, the Go Runtime, many games, etc.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

The team is now investing in consistency and scalability of partnership artifacts and communication channels, better redundancy and context sharing on the team through squad operating models, crisper engagement criteria , and definition of done for partnership engagements.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 1, 2023

47.418 MB is a pretty tiny amount and should take less than 10 ms to fault in (see Hidden Costs of Memory Allocation for details), and there were no new allocations during the trace, so the KiPageFault overhead was definitely excessive. I refined the test code more but it’s still fairly simple. That’s crazy.

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John McCalpin

JULY 23, 2018

I usually precede the code that I want to test with a “warm-up” loop consisting of at least a few seconds of execution of instructions using the same SIMD width as the code that I want to test. For simple loops, you can look at the assembly code and count instructions. Core cycles not halted in kernel mode.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 21, 2018

This very non-scientific method of checking code usage should give you an approximate idea of what might be dead code, or what you might simply be able to ignore. For a slightly more robust, but still imperfect method of identifying dead code, try this technique that I wrote up earlier in 2018.

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VoltDB

MARCH 22, 2024

Over the last couple of years, we’ve heard a lot of breathless talk about application programming interfaces (APIs) and how they’re going to change everything. With a clearly defined API, you can establish a set of rules that outsiders need to follow if they wish to use your code. Surely this is a good thing? API Challenge #3.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

writing code) it’s important to isolate our benchmarking only to the granular task at hand. There is a lot of indirect work when it comes to optimising certain metrics. Ultimately, individual tasks we undertake will help with our overall goals, but while working (i.e. It’s vital to benchmark our changes only on the things we are changing.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 16, 2019

The design of a programming (or data) model not only makes certain problems easier (or harder) to solve, but also makes certain classes of bugs easier (or harder) to create, detect, and subsequently fix. Go makes concurrent programming easier and less error-prone. Go programs have less concurrency bugs. ASPLOS’19.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

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Testsigma

JUNE 10, 2021

In a 2FA system, a user has to enter a password and an OTP or a code obtained from a different app. Definition of 2 Factor Authentication : Authentication by means of both – a password and an OTP. Ways in which a hacker can get access to your code: 1. That’s when 2 Factor authentication or 2FA becomes useful.

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