Computer Science · Software Engineering
A topic within Software Engineering, itself one of 15 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Brendan Gregg
Introduces a visualisation that stacks sampled call stacks by frequency, arguing it lets an engineer spot the hottest code path in a profile at a glance rather than reading a table of percentages.
Butler W. Lampson
Distils systems design into a set of hints about caching, hierarchy and the trade-off between simplicity and performance, arguing good design comes from applying a few general principles repeatedly.