The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

This proactive approach allows you to incorporate necessary safeguards and contingencies into your product strategy, minimizing the chances of failure. " By examining potential pain points and designing with empathy, you can create a product that addresses user needs and provides a seamless experience.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. However, below are some ideas or other mental health improvement strategies that are effective which you can explore. Physical Exercise. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. Not only does Next.js Global styles.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Then, using a design thinking process , ideate on the future and establish the business vision.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

5] The program cannot recover programmatically by reporting a run-time error to the calling code (via an exception, error code, or similar), because by definition the program is in a state it was not designed to handle, so the calling code isn’t ready for that state. It’s time to terminate and restart the program. Goldstine and J.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Thank you to the following for their feedback on drafts of this material: Howard Hinnant (lead designer and author of move semantics), Jens Maurer, Arthur O’Dwyer, Geoffrey Romer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrew Sutton, Ville Voutilainen, Jonathan Wakely. This post is an attempt to shed light on that situation.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

In some cases, if only a very few, these assets continue to be used because they still work very well, were thoughtfully designed, and have been well cared for over the years. A basic premise is that there are alternatives to traditional "lift and shift" strategies by retiring legacy assets in a piecemeal fashion.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

Like the development and design phases, these applications generate massive data volumes that offer relevant and actionable insights. With better data intelligence across the software development lifecycle, individuals in every role can exercise more autonomy and experience greater job satisfaction. The ability to preempt outages.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. This is basically how many render blocking resources each page has.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. No, this was a change in strategy. as an (eventual) exercise of monopolistic power that held the web back for more than a decade? What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

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Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The scenario Service considerations In this exercise, we wanted to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL v12.16 Conclusion Logical replication combined with Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) in PostgreSQL offers a powerful strategy for version upgrades without significant downtime. to PostgreSQL v15.4.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many of the practices that enable teams to move quickly are the same practices that enable highly-reliabile systems: automation, observability, testing, and design. If you’re new to domain discovery and modelling, check-out the free tools from the DDD Crew or the free kata exercise. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He demonstrated how a more elegant functional design—combining immutability, purity, and duality of code and data—can save larger enterprises millions of dollars, as demonstrated by his previous work at Walmart. He had a strategy. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers. He laid out a mission.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Again, every millisecond counts. Lighthouse.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

In this study, the diagnosis and resolution of an outage in a global Internet service, Etsy.com, was explored in an effort to uncover which cognitive strategies (specifically, heuristics) are used by engineers as they work to bring the service back to a stable state.

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Percona

JULY 6, 2023

If your workload and service design affords it, consider filtering your data thinking in retrieving just a few rows. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together. Next is the table definition.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. and used to taking small incremental steps, fail to appreciate the need for some degree of up-front design. (Of

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was hyped in the mid-2000s as a modern take on distributed systems architecture, which through modular design would provide productivity through loose coupling between collaborative services—so-called "WebServices"—communicating through externally published APIs. of ( Invoice. alsoTo ( Sink. of ( Order.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time. Let’s refer to this as an Invariant Business Rule.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Video encoding is what MezzFS was originally designed for and remains one of its canonical use cases, so we’ll focus on video encoding to describe the problem that MezzFS solves. We parallelize rerun jobs with Titus , Netflix’s container management platform, which allows us to exercise many hundreds of replay files in minutes.

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