The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. On programming, projects, and products. IEEE, 1980.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. However, as software systems age, the time it takes to add new features grows exponentially?—?and

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DZone

MARCH 8, 2024

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. This article explores the pros and cons of FSMs via simple examples.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

billion : venture investment first half of 2018; 1 billion : Utah voting system per day hack attempts; 67% : did not deploy a serverless app last year; $1.8 Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? Things got hairy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

He’d programmed in the 1960s and encouraged me to learn. Software was written in Motorola 6800 assembler, using a PDP-11 running Unix V6 as a development platform. That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems.

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C++ Software Engineering Education Engineering 98

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The purpose of this probe was to study the Mars climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. In this example, we can clearly see the huge impact of developing software without good specifications, requirement and guidelines can have.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. Serval enables us, with a reasonable effort, to develop multiple verifiers, apply the verifiers to a range of systems, and find previously unknown bugs.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

On the other hand we have good old-fashioned native apps that you install on your operating system (a dying breed? With a traditional OS app 2 you have much more control over the data (the files on your file system at least, which if you’re lucky might even be in an open format). Google Docs, Trello, …). It should be fast.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. For example programming interfaces that developers can use to analyze images, change text into true-to-life language or create chatbots. Machine Leaning at Amazon. In medicine, AI supports doctors in analyzing X-Ray CTs or MRT images.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

In the context of the papers we’ve been looking at recently, and for a constrained environment, Reverb is helping its users to form an accurate mental model of the system state, and to form and evaluate hypotheses in-situ. See e.g. " Debugging data flows in reactive programs." What values should the new program see now?

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Programming Servers Network Latency 86

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today’s paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught my interest.

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Tasktop

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to a generous fitness allowance program , the company is also working with a third party to provide teams with online mental health classes and workshops. Senior Systems Administrator, Michelle Santos, embraced a different type of cloud at Golden Ears Provincial Park in BC. How did Tasktopians Recharge?

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yet we continue to find new applications for software: it is increasingly a product differentiator (embedded systems) or a product category of its own (social networking). Plus, the diversity of programming languages and the complexity of environments encourages labor specialization and task management.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Discussion of the water positive goal and optimizations that let AWS return water directly for irrigation rather than to the sewage system. Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. A Design System Is Not A Sticker Sheet ,” by Corey Roth. I now find myself working as a Designer Advocate at Figma. We’re All Faking It.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. PHP is a popular server-side programming language due to its simplicity of use, vast functionality, and robust community support. In this post, we’ll look at why web professionals use PHP for unique website creation.

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

There may be alarm systems. There have been cases of harassment, intimidation, and domestic abuse by people whose access should have been revoked: for example, an ex-partner turning off the heating system. This is why people have made a business out of setting up home stereo and video systems.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. One parting thought concerns the granularity of a digital twin.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. One parting thought concerns the granularity of a digital twin.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Improving your hiring fortunes is not just about optimising your hiring process, it’s about making systemic changes to your organisation. Hiring is so hard?—?finding Contact me if you are interested or would like to know more.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Upon discussion with software engineers, we may discover that the accidental complexity is high?—?“those Analysing Relationships Between Teams No matter how hard we try, there are always going to be dependencies between software components and the teams that manage them. Unfortunately, co-change in systems is multi-dimensional.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Store engineering squad - focus on software and systems required for the storefront including point-of-sales system, promotions, etc. ERP engineering squad - supply chain planning, purchase order management, product lifecycle management, merchandise planning, etc. product) don't change over a long period.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

So how is it that NASA can land a rover on Mars, millions of miles away, with software that works flawlessly? The answer lies in a combination of factors that set space-grade software apart from your average app. The software driving the Curiosity rover comprises a staggering 2.5 million lines of C code.

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