The metric we all use for CPU utilization is deeply misleading, and getting worse every year. What is CPU utilization? How busy your processors are? No, that's not what it measures. Yes, I'm talking about the "%CPU" metric used everywhere, by . In every performance monitoring product. In top(1).
Getting Started with Headless ChromeHeadless Chrome is shipping in Chrome 59. It's a way to run the Chrome browser in a headless environment. Essentially, running Chrome without chrome! It brings all modern web platform features provided by Chromium and the Blink rendering engine to the command line. Why is that useful?
Object Oriented Tricks: #3 Death By ArgumentsOOT is a mini series on writing maintainable Object Oriented code without pulling your hair out. Click here for trick #1, trick #2. So rather than using them recklessly as conveniences, we should apply a significant amount of restraint and treat each argument as a liability.
Temporal coupling and Immutability - Enterprise CraftsmanshipRunning SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) on your database is all too common. In applications it’s typical to have some analytics dashboard highlighting the number of unique items such as unique users, unique products, unique visits.
Interesting data structures: the BK-treeA BK-tree is a tree data structure specialized to index data in a metric space. A metric space is essentially a set of objects which we equip with a distance function \(d(a, b)\) for every pair of elements \((a, b)\).
A Powerful F# Library Shows How S-Expressions Can Beat XML and JsonPeople used to love XML, especially those in the Microsoft camp. XML represented a powerful enabling technology for programmers of that day?—?data-driven programming without plain text files. Out of this love for XML came many technologies on which we still rely.
Best 15 Unix Command Line ToolsHere are some of the unix command line tools which we feel make our hands faster and lives easier. Let’s go through them in this post and make sure to leave a comment with your favourite!
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given upIf you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know. Ask for a suggestion of what computer to get, and I’ll almost certainly either tell you the MacBook Pro, or to wait, because Apple is about to update its hardware finally.
A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode – Nathan Reed’s coding blogUnicode! ???????? ?????????????! ? The very name strikes fear and awe into the hearts of programmers worldwide.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.