Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In distributed systems, retries are inevitable. From network errors to replication issues and even outages in downstream dependencies, services operating at a massive scale must be prepared to encounter, identify, and handle failure as gracefully as possible. Given the scope … The post Building Reliable Reprocessing and Dead Letter Queues with Apache Kafka appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Network Engineering Systems Processing 109

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The day after AMP was launched, I published a post with a bunch of concerns I had —most notably, that of the incentives being put around building AMP content. This promise of improved distribution for pages using AMP HTML shifts the incentive. AMP isn’t encouraging better performance on the web; AMP is encouraging the use of their specific tool to build a version of a web page.

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Google Mobile Engineering Speed 75

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Zombies probably won’t consume 32 GB of your memory like they did to me, but zombie processes do exist, and I can help you find them and make sure that developers fix them. Tool source link is at the bottom. Is it just me, or do Windows machines that have been up for a while seem to lose memory? After a few weeks of use (or a long weekend of building Chrome over 300 times) I kept noticing that Task Manager showed me running low on memory, but it didn’t show the memory being used by anything.

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Processing Programming Code Cache 72

Testlodge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Test Driven Development (TDD) uses a different approach to that used in traditional software development. In this article, we will find out more about it but firstly, let’s define TDD. What is TDD? TDD is an innovative software development approach where tests are written, before writing the bare minimum of code required for the test to be fulfilled.

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Development Testing Java Testing Tools 56

Professor Beekums

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

All software systems will fail. This is unfortunately a fact of life. Not even the biggest companies talk about 100% uptime. They talk about the number of ‘9’s of uptime a system has (e.g. 3 9s is 99.9% and 5 9s is 99.999%). Being able to claim a large number of 9s is a point of pride. While all software fails, developers can show off their skills by claiming to have a large number of 9s.

Software 56

Software Software Systems Development 56

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Learn about new architecture patterns, event-driven microservices, fast data, and more. Get a fresh start on building a new skill or augment what you currently know with one of these new and popular titles on O'Reilly's online learning platform. Continue reading 10 software architecture resources on O'Reilly's online learning platform.

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 55

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I have the blessed opportunity to speak at many customer events. SQLBits is always one of my favorites because of the great community that attends and the opportunity for me to travel to a great city like London. Well, for SQLBits 2018, it is not just me. Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosD

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Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40

Professor Beekums

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

All software systems will fail. This is unfortunately a fact of life. Not even the biggest companies talk about 100% uptime. They talk about the number of ‘9’s of uptime a system has (e.g. 3 9s is 99.9% and 5 9s is 99.999%). Being able to claim a large number of 9s is a point of pride. While all software fails, developers can show off their skills by claiming to have a large number of 9s.

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Software Software Systems Development 40

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

When you’re building a business, the experts all say that you should make your list building strategy a priority. Using social networks like Twitter and Facebook for your marketing is great, but those might not be around forever. Email has been around for a long time and it will likely exist a long time into the future as well. I’ve briefly mentioned this before, but I’m currently using Sendy to manage my email subscribers and send out my monthly newsletter.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

After having thought about it for quite some time, I’ve finally decided to start a developer user group in my home town of Tracy, California. This group titled, The Tracy Developer Meetup , was started to give developers living outside of the Bay Area, a chance to collaborate with other developers in the same position. If you’re unfamiliar with Tracy, it is a town about 1.5 hours from San Francisco and Mountain View, but significantly more affordable and home to many engineers that c

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