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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. What is monitoring as code? Within the Terraform CLI, users can instrument code to build and run Dynatrace monitoring for the services they’ll deploy from the same CLI.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Replay Traffic Testing Replay traffic refers to production traffic that is cloned and forked over to a different path in the service call graph, allowing us to exercise new/updated systems in a manner that simulates actual production conditions. This is particularly important for complex APIs that have many high cardinality inputs.

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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

You study and practice coding interview problems for hours/days/weeks/months, only to be asked to merge two sorted lists. For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. These questions reflect actual challenges that our teams face.

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Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

The Morning Paper

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). NSDI’20.

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Percona Is Introducing Telemetry Mechanisms Into MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

Percona

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. Continuing this trajectory into the future improvements in the development of our software products will require many decisions. We are proud of how far we have come over the last 16+ years.

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Model Collapse: An Experiment

O'Reilly

Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our training sets for AI are dominated by content created by AI. At some point in the near future, new models will be trained on code that they have written.