O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

The ability to run certain processes 24/7/365 created new efficiencies and risks alike. The efficiencies were double-edged: Automating one process might overwhelm downstream processes that were still done by hand. Managing the new risks required everyone to exercise new discipline. We know Python. All this AI stuff is Python.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Java Software Software 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is a decades-long tradition of data-centric programming : developers who have been using data-centric IDEs, such as RStudio, Matlab, Jupyter Notebooks, or even Excel to model complex real-world phenomena, should find this paradigm familiar. This approach is not novel. Two important trends collide in these lists.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 145

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Once we begin to exercise, the muscles grow again. People who have exercised innate capabilities and acquired developed capabilities will be much better positioned to acquire whatever skills they need to be successful. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

I haven’t had to optimize cppfront much yet because it’s been fast in all my uses, but Max Sagebaum exercised metafunctions heavily for @regex (covered below, in 0.7.2) Functions, including unnamed function expressions (aka lambdas), that do nothing but return an expression can now omit everything between ) and the expression.

C++ 116

C++ Lambda Code Open Source 116

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 25, 2021

On a humorous note, O(N) remains O(N) no matter how hard we try to make it efficient: MyAssert( std::is_sorted( std::execution::par, begin(s), end(s) ) ); // still O(N) arbitrarily expensive, but good try! P0542: Support for contract based programming in C++” (WG21 paper, June 2018). Dos Reis, J. Meredith, N. Myers, and B. Stroustrup.

C++ 63

C++ Programming Cache Testing 63

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Design 43

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

The unlocked version of the programs may be downloaded from the Google Play store. The application preserves detailed records of the user’s expenditures, provides assistance in the maintenance of the user’s budget, and gives the user the ability to exercise control over their own money and the flow of that money.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Games 52

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). Can a given type document that moving from an object always changes its state?

C++ 98

C++ Testing Design Programming 98

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Differences in uptake rates matter because it's only by updating a program on the user's devices that fixes can begin to protect users.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

This update covers Acknowledgments, and highlights of what’s new in the compiler and language since last time, including: simple, mathematically safe, and efficient chained comparisons named break and continue “simple and safe” starts with. In today’s C++, this kind of comparison silently compiles but is a bug.

C++ 97

C++ Virtualization Lambda Code 97

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." Safety is within our budget, assuming platforms don't make exotic and dangerous APIs available all programs — more on that in a second.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Some best practices to follow for efficient regression testing. Dev-QA Pairing – In addition to the code review involvement, QA can also liaison with developers while they are programming the new modules. It becomes very difficult to track which new implementation or fixes led to glitches in the existing functionality.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

No one seems to remember that your business partner all but demanded that you to pull the plug on the entire exercise just a few weeks in. The failure to recognize that an enterprise is a geometric rather than a linear degree of difference from a single team dooms a lot of well intentioned change programs.

Programming 45

Programming Design Speed Efficiency 45

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets. Tight coupling of code to data (think COBOL programs to VSAM files, or ABAP programs to customized tables in SAP) makes code difficult to recompose into new structures.

Code 52

Code Architecture Programming Strategy 52

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. After this, the micro-ops will wait in the Reorder Buffer until they can be retired in program order. There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. After this, the micro-ops will wait in the Reorder Buffer until they can be retired in program order. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40