The price of improving structure Things always get worse before they get better —The Sad Truth of Software Design (also lots of other activities) You have a design. You need it to be better at supporting new features. How do … Read more
In his book On War, Clausewitz defines friction as the difference between military theory and reality: Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest … Read more
Acknowledgements This project is the result of work of many people from the Google Core Systems & Experiences team and Google Deepmind, and DIDACT. This article was co-authored with Boris Bokowski (Google Coding Tools Director), Petros Maniatis (research), Ambar Murillo … Read more
I’ve been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We read through Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Database Internals, Systems Performance, and we just started Understanding Software Dynamics. The DDIA discussions were in-person in NYC with … Read more
Posted on April 25th, 2024 We’ve achieved a big win for green tech: The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification v1.0 is now an ISO standard. With the approval and publication of version 1.0, the ISO confirms that the SCI Specification … Read more
The software I encounter most is software that interacts with a changing world. It’s software that needs to adapt to other software, but critically, it needs to adapt to its users – to people! People change their attitudes and processes … Read more
See also my blog Contents Optimization manuals This series of five manuals describes everything you need to know about optimizing code for x86 and x86-64 family microprocessors, including optimization advices for C++ and assembly language, details about the microarchitecture and … Read more
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08 Feb 2024 10 min read Daniel Zender This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away 1 January 2024. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software,” … Read more
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the … Read more