Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained budgets — that a VSM tool will simply expose what is already known: “Our processes, workflows and tools are a mess. After we’ve cleaned up our act and matured our processes, we’ll finally be ready for a VSM tool.” .

Storage 52

Storage Speed C++ DevOps 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Latency 171

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate key IT operations processes, including anomaly detection and identification, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. A truly modern AIOps solution also serves the entire software development lifecycle to address the volume, velocity, and complexity of multicloud environments.

Artificial Intelligence 278

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy 278

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

To catch such bugs before they create havoc in production, it is important to include regression testing in the software testing process being followed by an organization. Some best practices to follow for efficient regression testing. When is Regression Testing done?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

While I was writing chapter 3 of my book, Activist Investing in Strategic Software , I spent time researching the rise of centralized procurement departments in the 1990s. Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Software Software 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

M&A is a great process for creating fees for bankers, and for destroying the value held by shareholders." -- John Authers, writing in the Financial Times Industries tend to go through waves of deal-making. Glossy proclamations of new strategic visions often boil down to a prosaic cost-cutting exercise, or into a failure of implementation."

Airlines 40

Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. If you're wed to any aspect of your current organization, if you think process will make your business better, or if you're concerned about making mistakes or losing staff, you're really no more ambitious than being less bad.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

For Federal, State and Local agencies to take full advantage of the agility and responsiveness of a DevOps approach to the software lifecycle, Security must also play an integral role across lifecycle stages. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 219

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 219

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Yet as software environments become more complex, there are more ways than ever for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities, even in the application development and delivery pipeline. When considering DevOps vs DevSecOps, it becomes obvious that both look to integrate disparate processes using a combination of agility and automation.

DevOps 151

DevOps Speed Infrastructure Software 151

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Performance efficiency. Figure 1 – Individual Host pages show performance metrics, problem history, event history, and related processes for each host. Right-sizing is an iterative process where you adjust the size of your resource to optimize for cost. Performance Efficiency. Operational excellence. Reliability.

Azure 182

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 182

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Capitalizing development of IT assets is an exercise in funding salaries and contractor costs out of CapEx budgets.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. DSLabs post-processes failing traces to present them in the easiest to understand form possible for students, with events laid out in causal order wherever possible. EuroSys’19. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

But, much like any other software that allows for concurrent session usage, there are mutexes/semaphores in the code that are used to limit the number of sessions that can access shared resources. Conclusion Capacity planning is not something you do once a year or more as part of a general exercise.

Traffic 88

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Faster and higher-quality software releases. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

They go on to report that 70% of the cases of these 7 chronic illnesses are preventable through lifestyle change: diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes and what not. So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. This process can be messy and slow, but it never creates a political blockage for developing new capabilities for the web.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website. This process can be “blocked” if it has to wait for resources to load before it runs.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This resulted in not only a better software asset, but an outcome that everybody is emotionally invested in. No one seems to remember that your business partner all but demanded that you to pull the plug on the entire exercise just a few weeks in. It's just a different process from what we follow today, right?

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The difference between “mediocre” and “great”, I believe, lies in the process. Data viz solutions are consistent with its purpose; a good balance between efficiency and complexity; Color palette. Rarely can you find inspiration accompanied by a thorough analysis of the process, research, and decision-making involved.

Design 95

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 95

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10