The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. On programming, projects, and products. IEEE, 1980.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. I love pair programming and mobbing because every small decision is debated and challenged. My experience is the opposite.

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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. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

.: a dynamic Asset Inventory that understands the nuances of our bespoke engineering ecosystem and how our applications and data relate to each other. This has evolved their identity to be a software engineering team that focuses on security problems as opposed to a security engineering team that writes code/software.

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. It's hard to convince students who want to write code that they should learn to think mathematically, above the code level, about what they’re doing. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program. megawatts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

This allows our engineers to use paved paths to ask and answer more precise questions, so they can spend less time head-scratching and more time testing out exciting ideas. XP provides a framework that allows engineering teams to define sets of test treatment experiences in their code, and then use these to configure an experiment.

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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. Software Engineers, was introduced to the fundamental concepts and tools on which Tasktop is built.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases. Users can use Metaflow library to create workflows in Maestro to execute DAGs consisting of arbitrary Python code.

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Addy Osmani

MARCH 27, 2025

A recap of my latest Substack articles exploring the evolving intersection of AI and software engineering, from coding with agents to thinking about the future of programming itself.

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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.

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C++ Software Engineering Education Engineering 98

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Adventures in Coderland author Andrew Smith discusses the journey he’s taken while learning to code. Having started from a place of not knowing anything about coding, Smith says he went much deeper into it than he thought he would. ” ( 00:15 ). ” ( 18:04 ).

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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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cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The purpose of this probe was to study the Mars climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. The total cost of this mission was $327.6 On September 23, 1999 at 09:00:46 UTC, the space probe began this planned orbital manoeuvre. Tests are fundamental.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Chaithra Rao (Chaithra is a Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Insider Inc.). “ I like to think of test automation as writing code with a tester’s mindset. For someone who is just getting started with test automation, I would recommend learning the basics of programming first.

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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. How Serval works.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

See e.g. " Debugging data flows in reactive programs." Changing the program’s state in some way. The non-deterministic input vectors for a JavaScript program are well-known and (compared to POSIX) very small in number. What values should the new program see now? cookies) at the start of logging.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Network Latency 86

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Being static , it has the advantage that analysis results can be produced solely from source code without the need to execute the program. But there’s a problem: Enterprise applications represent a major failure of applying programming languages research to the real world — a black eye of the research community.

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Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 94

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads. SUS209 — there was no talk with this code. SUS304 to SUS311 No talks with these codes. STP213 Scaling global carbon footprint management.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

A Hollow diff shows exactly what changes This, coupled with some iteration on the deployment process, has resulted in the ability for our team to code, validate, and deploy impactful changes to Gatekeeper in literally minutes?—?at at least an order of magnitude faster than in the prior system?—?and

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Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 184

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. High-level approach.

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Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Make Your Organisation Irresistible to Software Engineers The easiest and cheapest way to hire good engineers is to let them come to you. Not all code is created equal. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Software development is labor intensive: the productivity enhancers that do exist such as automated testing and automated build are still poorly implemented, when used at all. Plus, the diversity of programming languages and the complexity of environments encourages labor specialization and task management.

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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. It has a PHP engine that turns PHP code into bytecode, which makes it run faster.

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

The engineering organisation described may not work for you because of a team of 8-10 people is still a very big overhead. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? Probably yes.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Let's dive deep into the world of aerospace software engineering and uncover the secrets behind NASA's incredible reliability. The software driving the Curiosity rover comprises a staggering 2.5 million lines of C code. The choice of C as the programming language is telling.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. .</param> Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); }.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And, or at least so the argument goes, modern no-code / low-code programming environments obviate the need for corporate IT functions to hire or contract for traditional language software developers.

Innovation 52

Innovation Software Engineering Efficiency Design 52

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 8, 2008

Design patterns are more popular in software engineering, but as web applications become larger and more robust, design patterns are starting to become a bit more well known in the web development world. The ideas laid out in the book can help anyone working with the language to create higher-quality, efficient code.

Design 40

Design Programming Software Engineering Engineering 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Taking a closer look at the log and stepping though the LLDB code I found the read failure occurring because the memory address could not be located in the tracked VM map. When this marker is placed in the program and section header count members, it indicates that section_header[0] holds the actual count values.

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Servers Programming Open Source Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Alright, enough doom and gloom.

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Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Beyond providing a powerful semantic model for stateful stream processing, digital twins also offer advantages for software engineering because they can take advantage of well understood object-oriented programming techniques. These methods also can reach out to databases to access and update historical data sets.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Beyond providing a powerful semantic model for stateful stream processing, digital twins also offer advantages for software engineering because they can take advantage of well understood object-oriented programming techniques. These methods also can reach out to databases to access and update historical data sets.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Upon discussion with software engineers, we may discover that the accidental complexity is high?—?“those We would only need half of the people if the code was simpler to change, and required less live support.”. Large business-level initiatives will result in programs of work that span multiple teams.

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Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture 64

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I’m not really a fan of low-code / no-code / just drag-and-drop-from-our-catalogue forms of application development. 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. I chose this paper to challenge my own thinking.

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Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

When more complicated routines are required to meet the needs, how does someone allow for changes without writing code, if they are allowed to? Amazon’s Ring partnership with one in ten US police departments troubles many privacy groups because it creates a vast surveillance program.

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