The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In the kernel, you’ll often see capability checks spread throughout the code, which looks something like this: [link] Notice this function doesn’t check if the user is root, but if the task has the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability before allowing it to execute. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. Some of the techniques I have used that have proven to be effective are: Resting awareness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Reflection, Body scanning, Visualization, Note-taking, Mindful programming. Dave Oscar.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you peek under the hood of an ML-powered application, these days you will often find a repository of Python code. Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You can always ask a question live , you can share your screen and get immediate feedback, and you can work on group exercises with people around the world. In fact, that’s why we’ve fallen in love with online workshops — and have a full program scheduled for the months to come. Here’s what our workshops are like.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

Managing the new risks required everyone to exercise new discipline. One person forcing a hasty code change could upset operations and lead to sizable losses. Since application development and AI both involve writing code, they overestimate the overlap between the two. We know Python. All this AI stuff is Python.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

This approach is limited by what requestors can observe externally… To expose partial failures, a detector needs to exercise specific code regions with carefully-chosen payloads. So the approach taken by the authors is to use intrinsic watchdogs – these run concurrently with the main program inside the same process.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. Advent of Code. If you prefer a puzzle over an article, take a look at Advent of Code. Created by Eric Wastl, this is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 16, 2011

As a tribute in honor of Dennis Ritchie’s passing , I’d like to invite you to share your thoughts in this post’s comments about your first C program – either the code if you remember it approximately, or a story about when you wrote it. After all, this was just a warm-up initial exercise for the course. Here’s mine.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We already see hints of that on GitHub: in February 2023, GitHub said that 46% of all the code checked in was written by Copilot. At some point in the near future, new models will be trained on code that they have written. I expected it to stay close to 1, and the experiment would serve no purpose other than exercising my laptop’s fan.

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This insight allowed us to put two critical programs in place to help companies either make the transition to 8.0 Both programs have been met with great responses from new and existing customers who found themselves stuck! which is scheduled for EOL by the end of October 2023. Here is an excerpt from Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.34

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

Safety and simplicity are the two core things I want to try to dramatically improve in C++, and are why I’m doing my cppfront experiment, so although the above absorbed some time away from cppfront coding it all contributes to the same goal. (If Jul 10, 2024), new things include: Added. Allow trailing commas in lists.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

It also generated a short program that implemented the widely used Miller-Rabin primality test. After fixing some obvious errors, I ran the program–and while it told me (correctly) that my number was non-prime, when compared to a known good implementation of Miller-Rabin, ChatGPT’s code made many mistakes.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The tester established a baseline by selecting the most critical, common, or obvious path through the code selection. Steps to Performing Basis Path Testing The first step is to create a control flow graph for a specified code section. The second step is to select a baseline path through the code.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

“It’s written in ones and zeroes - binary code. At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with strings of ones and zeroes. When you program in machine language, you are controlling the computer at its brainstem, the root of its existence. For example in the code: 1. . “Is this another analogy?”

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 25, 2021

We want a way to enable checking for some assertions but not others in the same code, because we may not always be able to afford expensive checks. In GotW #97 question 3, part of the solution says that “if an assertion fails” then… … there is a program bug, possibly in the assertion itself. in production). Dos Reis, J.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In this blog post, I will show you a particular example I faced when working with an upgrade exercise using pg_upgrade. When working with the upgrade exercise, the goal was to move from PostgreSQL 11 to PostgreSQL 12. 1 amd64 front-end programs for PostgreSQL 11 ii postgresql-client-12 12.13-1.pgdg20.04+1

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 3, 2021

Briefly, what is the difference among: (a) undefined behavior Undefined behavior is what happens when your program tries to do something whose meaning is not defined at all in the C++ standard language or library (illegal code and/or data).

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

While it is seen as a positive for users to be able to quickly see if the site they’re loading is slow, the ethics of such a program become a little murkier. The badging program could very well have a similar effect. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a PostgreSQL user wants to change these values, they need to recompile the PostgreSQL from the source code. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. Changing these values at compile time is not intended for common use.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It had licensed a workflow technology and contracted a large number of people to code and configure a custom solution around it. The rules were implemented as IFTTT statements in a low-code language that did not allow them to be tested in isolation. The reaction of both vendor and program office weren't much of a surprise.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

The most general form of operator= is operator=: (out this, that) which works as a unified general {copy, move} x { constructor, assignment } operator, and generates all of four of those in the lowered Cpp1 code if you didn’t write a more specific one yourself (see Design Note linked above for details).

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. " The eventual Blink fork was precipitated by an insurmountable difficulty in doing precisely what Apple suggested to Congress: contributing code upstream to WebKit to enable new features. It's worth assessing these claims from most easily falsified to most contested.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2022

The activist investor in a captive IT investment does the same things: interviews members of the team, reviews code, and analyzes status reports to develop alternative interpretations about the actual progress of and threats to a program or product.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In the video I explained how I arrived at tracing __iwl_dbg() in this way, and how you can follow a similar approach for tracing unfamiliar code. This is not my best code, since I hacked it in a hurry, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/python Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode].

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In the video I explained how I arrived at tracing __iwl_dbg() in this way, and how you can follow a similar approach for tracing unfamiliar code. This is not my best code, since I hacked it in a hurry, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/python Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode].

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Otherwise, you’ll either get the implicitly generated move functions, or else requests to move will automatically just do a copy instead, since copy is always a valid implementation of move (it just doesn’t exercise the non- const option). Yes, in my view it does make it a buggy class that shouldn’t pass code review.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This allows application code to introspect on the dynamic behavior of each data source, maintain synthetic metrics which aid the analysis, and create alerts when conditions require. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This allows application code to introspect on the dynamic behavior of each data source, maintain synthetic metrics which aid the analysis, and create alerts when conditions require. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

"Appiness" is an illusion, an arbitrary line drawn to include programs built on some platforms but not others, and all of today's OSes allow multiple platforms to expose "real apps." Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. What about security?

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Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Regression testing comprises re-running the test cases of already stable features and finding out if the new code changes attributed to the new release led to any negative impacts on the existing functionalities. Regression checks should start as soon as a new build is released for testing and should be repeated for every new code build.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Traditional IT projects are mass economy-of-scale exercises: once development begins, armies of developers are unleashed. Clearly, a small team delivering documentation is nowhere near as significant an event as a large team delivering executable code. An Agile team is not an exercise in scale.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

That paper was published back in 2014 and showed some tremendous performance benefits, so why aren’t we all programming with invariant confluent objects already?? Ideally we would have a general-purpose program that can automatically determine invariant confluence for us. A decision procedure for invariant confluence.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

Decades of poor architecture guidelines and lax developer discipline resulted in the commercial-off-the-shelf components of an ERP becoming inseparable from the custom code built around it. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets.

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John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? MPI is a commonly used standard to implement message-passing programs on computer clusters. The source code to the library may not be available.

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