All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's m

AWS 157

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 157

CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Avoid using CSS’ shorthand syntax

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Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 11, 2016

UPDATE 2017-01-01: This post has a follow up. Most engineering organizations will have to answer the question: “What makes a software developer a senior developer?” This is a challenging question because it is extremely subjective. Search for the answer on the internet and you will get many different answers. Some will contain criteria that are also subjective themselves which adds additional difficulty to the question.

Software 80

Software Software Development Internet 80

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Why Uber Started Over. Uber is based on a simple concept: push a button, get a ride. What started as a way to request premium black cars now offers a range of products, coordinating millions of rides per day across … The post Engineering the Architecture Behind Uber’s New Rider App appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Architecture 75

Architecture Engineering Mobile 75

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It has been a long year being an advocate of technology and I thought it would be a good idea to share everything that has happened to The Polyglot Developer and all of its networks. Last year, in 2015, I started a tradition of sharing my WordPress, YouTube, and course statistics. We are approaching the end of the year and it is that time again. Below you’ll find statistics that may help you if you’re planning on creating a blog or developing a course.

Network 52

Network Technology Technology Development 52

cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Modern software usually involves running tasks that invoke services. If the service is subjected to intermittent heavy loads, it can cause performance or reliability issues. If the same service is utilized by a number of tasks running concurrently, it can be difficult to predict the volume of requests to which the service might be subjected at any given point in time.

Design 47

Design Azure Scalability Java 47

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In my keynote at AWS re:Invent today, I announced 13 new features and services (in addition to the 15 we announced yesterday). My favorite parts of James Bond movies is are where 007 gets to visit Q to pick up and learn about new tools of the trade: super-powered tools with special features which that he can use to complete his missions, and, in some cases, get out of some nasty scrapes.

AWS 139

AWS Development Lambda Open Source 139

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 18, 2016

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. Someone can do no work by just… not working. How does negative work happen? One example of this is an awful developer that was once at the same company as me.

Development 79

Development AWS Code Software 79

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system we developed at Uber Engineering to transport asynchronous tasks. We named our task queue after a heroic carrier pigeon with the hope that this system would be just … The post Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Scalability 75

Scalability Transportation Engineering Systems 75

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Continuing down the road of Golang development I thought it would be a cool learning example to develop a URL shortener application similar to that of TinyURL or Bitly. I think these are great examples because not only does it teach you how to develop a RESTful API that uses a datasource, but it also challenges you to think critically when it comes to the algorithms.

Programming 52

Programming Servers Technology Technology 52

cdemi

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Building on the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern , the Competing Consumer Pattern enables a system to process multiple messages concurrently to optimize throughput, to improve scalability and availability, and to balance the workload. During the lifetime of an application, the number of requests may vary significantly over time. Using a single instance of the consumer service might cause that instance to become flooded with requests.

Design 40

Design Scalability Processing Systems 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. Today, I'm happy to share that the Canada (Central) Region is available for use by customers worldwide. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K. in the coming year.

AWS 134

AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 134

John McCalpin

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) has a lot of modes of operation (selected at boot time), and the latency and bandwidth characteristics are slightly different for each mode. It is also important to remember that the latency can be different for each physical address, depending on the location of the requesting core, the location of the coherence agent responsible for that address, and the location of the memory controller for that address.

Latency 40

Latency Cache Testing Systems 40

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Developer/coding bootcamps are incredibly popular right now. That should not be a surprise to anyone. Software development is an incredibly lucrative field. There is a much greater demand for talent than there is supply. I’ve seen that from both the hiring side and the job applicant side. It makes sense that a lot of folks out there are interested in becoming software developers.

Education 59

Education Software Software Code 59

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As Uber continues to scale, our systems generate continually more events, interservice messages, and logs. Those data needs go through Kafka to get processed. How does our platform audit all these messages in real time? To monitor our Kafka pipeline … The post Introducing Chaperone: How Uber Engineering Audits Apache Kafka End-to-End appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Engineering 68

Engineering Monitoring Processing Systems 68

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Over the past few years I’ve become dependent on wearable technology, a compliment to my smart phones. For the past year I’ve been using a Pebble Time smartwatch, but since Pebble recently sold out to Fitbit and shutdown shop, I was left looking for a replacement to my soon to be disabled smartwatch. This lead me to the Samsung Gear Fit 2 smart device.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Development 40

Wayfair Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2016

What's fast, jank-free, and has what you need for your home? Wayfair's mobile web site, that's what! Behind this spiffy Android experience, and behind all of the ways into Wayfair that we make available to our customers, are some fresh technical upgrades and an evolution of our programming and product. Read more.

Mobile 40

Mobile Programming Performance Availability 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It starts with a voice. Your voice. Your ideas. Your opinions. Your thoughts. Your learnings. You have something you’re interested in, something you want to communicate to others. So you write. Or you give a presentation. Or you record a screencast. You do these things more and more, sharing what you learn and what you think. Over time, as you get more comfortable, you learn how to improve.

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Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Why Uber Started Over. Uber is based on a simple concept: push a button, get a ride. What started as a way to request premium black cars now offers a range of products, coordinating millions of rides per day across … The post Engineering the Architecture Behind Uber’s New Rider App appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Architecture 49

Architecture Engineering Mobile 49

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system we developed at Uber Engineering to transport asynchronous tasks. We named our task queue after a heroic carrier pigeon with the hope that this system would be just … The post Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Scalability 49

Scalability Transportation Engineering Systems 49

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As Uber continues to scale, our systems generate continually more events, interservice messages, and logs. Those data needs go through Kafka to get processed. How does our platform audit all these messages in real time? To monitor our Kafka pipeline … The post Introducing Chaperone: How Uber Engineering Audits Apache Kafka End-to-End appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Engineering 45

Engineering Monitoring Processing Systems 45

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve been hearing a lot about websockets lately and how they can accomplish real time communication between applications and servers. They act as a compliment and possible alternative to RESTful APIs that have been around for significantly longer. With websockets you can do real time messaging for things like chat, communication with IoT, gaming, and a whole lot of other things that need instant communication between clients and the server.

IoT 40

IoT Games Programming Servers 40

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The post on “Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work” was both enjoyed by many and highly criticized by many. I’m usually fine with criticism, but one point really stung. A lot of the criticism denounced the idea that junior developers do negative work. They need mentoring and coaching, not to be frightened and have their insecurities targeted by callous bloggers such as myself.

Development 40

Development 40

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The post on “Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work” was both enjoyed by many and highly criticized by many. I’m usually fine with criticism, but one point really stung. A lot of the criticism denounced the idea that junior developers do negative work. They need mentoring and coaching, not to be frightened and have their insecurities targeted by callous bloggers such as myself.

Development 40

Development 40

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 18, 2016

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. Someone can do no work by just… not working. How does negative work happen? One example of this is an awful developer that was once at the same company as me.

Development 40

Development AWS Code Software 40

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Observables. Native To The Web Platform? One of the common misconceptions in the web world is that RxJS is an “Angular thing”. What most developers don’t realize is that Observables are on their way to becoming native to the web, and if you aren’t already using them to handle asynchrony, you are not adequately preparing yourself for the future. The Best Way To Handle Asynchrony.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Code Development 40

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Almost two years ago I wrote an article explaining how to determine if a number is prime or not using JavaScript. It turns out this article became more popular than I thought it would, and if I had to guess, it might be because it is a good computer science and overall interview question for new career developers. I thought it would make sense to revisit the post, but this time focus on accomplishing the task with the Go programming language instead of JavaScript.

Programming 40

Programming Development 40

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 11, 2016

UPDATE 2017-01-01: This post has a follow up. Most engineering organizations will have to answer the question: “What makes a software developer a senior developer?” This is a challenging question because it is extremely subjective. Search for the answer on the internet and you will get many different answers. Some will contain criteria that are also subjective themselves which adds additional difficulty to the question.

Software 40

Software Software Development Internet 40

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I figured I would change it up a bit and get into the basics of Golang and common Computer Science study material taught in school, but often used in software engineering type positions. We’re going to revisit a post I wrote back in 2015 regarding the Fibonacci number and generating the sequence in JavaScript. This time I figured it would be useful to walk through how to accomplish the same using the Go programming language.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Programming Engineering Software 40

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Developer/coding bootcamps are incredibly popular right now. That should not be a surprise to anyone. Software development is an incredibly lucrative field. There is a much greater demand for talent than there is supply. I’ve seen that from both the hiring side and the job applicant side. It makes sense that a lot of folks out there are interested in becoming software developers.

Education 40

Education Software Software Code 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Ah, the end of the year. A time where my waistline expands as I feast on mountains of holiday sweets and the list of books I want to the read expands just as quickly as everyone shares their favorite reads from 2016. As always, I enjoyed every book on this list at least a little—I don’t have the patience or desire to get through books that I’m not finding interesting in some way.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40