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fantastic piece of C=64 history — the “Ocean fast loader” by Paul Hughes, which allowed Commodore 64 games to load from tape at 4000 baud, far faster than the built-in system implementation, and with graphics and music at the same time
(tags: ocean-loader tapes c=64 commodore-64 history 1980s freeload paul-hughes)
IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 will support Chronon Debugger
This, IMO, would be a really good reason to upgrade to the payware version of IDEA – Chronon looks cool.
Chronon is a new revolutionary tool keeping track of running Java programs and recording their execution process for later analysis, which can be helpful when you need to thoroughly retrace your steps when dealing with complicated bugs.
(tags: chronon debugging java intellij idea ides coding time-warp time)
“Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure” [PDF]
Google paper describing the infrastructure they’ve built for cross-service request tracing (ie. “tracer requests”). Features: low code changes required (since they’ve built it into the internal protobuf libs), low performance impact, sampling, deployment across the ~entire production fleet, output visibility in minutes, and has been live in production for over 2 years. Excellent read
(tags: dapper tracing http services soa google papers request-tracing tracers protobuf devops)