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Time-Traveling Through Spark: Recording Distributed Failures Across Space and Time Debugging distributed Spark applications presents unique challenges. Your driver reports one set of symptoms, your executors are already…

Time-Traveling Through Spark: Recording Distributed Failures Across Space and Time: medium.com/@david.griff...

C++ creator calls for action to address 'serious attacks' Bjarne Stroustrup says standards committee needs to show it can respond to memory safety push

Latest of memory safety: "The new US administration has removed everything from the White House web site and fired most of the CISA people who worked on memory safety."

tbf, memory safety is pretty woke.

www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/c...

No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in the clothes he fought the war in.

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

Might want to watch the video at 2x, just because we ran it on a regular laptop. Recording didn't noticeably slow it down at all.

We recorded Deepseek! Obviously this won't tell you how it was made, but very cool for seeing how it works. The only sad bit was that it doesn't seem to know about time travel debugging.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-fJ...

ACCU 2025 : News As we end the second week of the year, I don't know about you, but I'm still writing 1996 on my cheques. But a new year, of course, means looking forward to another ACCU conference - and we're now…

2025 is here - and so is the ACCU 2025 schedule!

Check out all the talks, including our four fantastic keynotes - as well as seven workshops (including some online options):

Lightning Talk: Undoom - Reviving a Zombie With a Time Travel Debugger - Mark Williamson - C++ on Sea Watch our latest video on YouTube

We have published a new C++ on Sea 2024 video!

Lightning Talk: Undoom - Reviving a Zombie With a Time Travel Debugger - Mark Williamson - C++ on Sea

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Are you going to be long in there, Matthew?

I guess it kind of makes sense: tends to be the super subtle, almost-but-not-quite-right bugs that are the hardest to track down.

Tauber's Law: The harder a bug is to track down, the simpler the fix tends to be.

it's quite annoying, and most people don't know about the 'shift' trick. Do you know _why_ this happens? It only started happening in relatively recent versions of GDB.

GDB TUI mode.

Tauber’s Law!

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