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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

nn> MonitoringnnWe (humans) are terrible at imagining all possible permutations of the system with billions and billions of possible states. You may think that you know how the system works. You may think that you know how the system works. In the best case, you know only how the system was designed to work.

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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., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Overall, our study reveals that partial failure is a common and severe problem in large software systems.

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Architecture of Max reHIT Workout

High Scalability

Max reHIT Workout is an exercise app that guides you through interval workouts. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. That's because there’s been very little evolution in software system architecture.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This is particularly important for complex APIs that have many high cardinality inputs.

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What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Dynatrace

Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure? The mandate explains why this is the case: “A reasonable investor would [not] view a significant breach of a registrant’s data as immaterial merely because the data were housed on a third-party system ….

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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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. We recommend against interview coding practice puzzle-type exercises, as we don’t ask those types of questions. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

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AIOps observability adoption ascends in healthcare

Dynatrace

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. Over the past decade, the industry moved from paper-based to electronic health records (EHRs)—digitizing the backbone of patient data.