Programming Digest - PD#581 The Itanic Saga

The Itanic Saga
21 minutes by Bradford Morgan White

Itanium was intended to be a ubiquitous replacement for x86, but failed to compete against AMD64. Primarily, its price was far higher than AMD’s while not offering performance that justified the price offset. For specific workloads, it was a good product and therefore made HP a decent sum.

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How Does Facebook Manage to Serve Billions of Users Daily?
6 minutes by Hoon Wee

Learn how big companies like Facebook's Memcached caching system help in scaling to serve billions of requests by cleverly assisting the database.

Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves
9 minutes by Sung Kim

It is folly to pursue certainty of your code’s correctness. A bug may be hiding in a dependency that you’ll never find. Yet we should not despair. We can still decrease the risk of bugs via greater understanding and due diligence.

Percentile
10 minutes by Alex Ewerlöf

What is percentile? Why is it used in the context of reliability engineering and optimization. Play with an open source web app that is created generated and graph random data according to your criteria. Discover the key differences between percentile and average in data analysis.

The Many Facets of Coupling
16 minutes by Gregor Hohpe

Coupling is integration's magic word. Loose coupling affords the participants desirable properties like independent variability or operational resilience. However, coupling isn't binary nor is it a single dimension. So it's time to apply our favorite architect manoeuvres—seeing more dimensions and seeing shades of grey—to coupling.

And we’ll wrap up today with an unfortunate supply chain attack of decent proportions:

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