Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e.,

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Database Architecture Education Systems 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

In my talk I brought up a different development thread of AI in the self-driving car context, and in particular Tesla FSD beta, which I have been using for the last few months. Chai Atreya of Alteryx did an impressive live demo of using ChapGPT as a guide to developing some analysis in a Python notebook.

Social Media 95

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 95

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. Selecting the right home automation equipment is increasingly crucial for household management.

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Wireless Development IoT Internet 52

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. My freshly built Linux kernel, built with a large new compiler feature that’s been in development for months is finally now building but is not booting. Recent work. No output. halt_loop: while ( true ). Was my code bad?

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C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Alternatively, cars are now starting to directly embed AI into entertainment systems (e.g.,

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Internet Internet Entertainment Design 108

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The interesting pattern I’ve noticed is the way developers react to this idea versus the way operations engineers react: in my experience, developers tend to argue with more veracity that root cause matters and that cause and effect can be concretely established. And if there is a problem with that output?—?a This will fix the “bug.”

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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Strategy Innovation Entertainment Hardware 84