O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

Creativity comes from the bottom up, starting with the basics: the underlying machine and network. The problem is that sort() is a great exercise in problem solving, particularly if you force yourself past simple bubble sort to quicksort , merge sort , and beyond. It’s hard to be innovative when all you know is React.

Social Media 125

Social Media Media Games Innovation 125

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

This approach is limited by what requestors can observe externally… To expose partial failures, a detector needs to exercise specific code regions with carefully-chosen payloads. So the approach taken by the authors is to use intrinsic watchdogs – these run concurrently with the main program inside the same process.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. Created by Eric Wastl, this is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. If you don’t have a Figma account, don’t worry, it’s free.) Amy Dutton on Twitter. The Java Advent 2021 is here!

Design 120

Design Development Programming Website 120

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. The badging program could very well have a similar effect.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. For example, the network port at which PostgreSQL listens cannot be changed at the individual database level. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

Database 120

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 120

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In addition, it can also inculcate resources such as articles, podcasts, and breathing exercises to help users develop coping strategies and resilience. Users can embark on a musical journey with interactive tutorials, practice exercises, and gamified learning experiences tailored to different skill levels.

Education 52

Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

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

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

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

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. The networking model is asynchronous (allowing out of order, dropped, delayed, and duplicated messages), the failure model is crash-stop. Testing and model checking.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Design 43