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Self-Insuring Software Assets

The Agile Manager

When we build software, we don't always buy insurance on the software. For software we build, we underwrite the responsibility for the fact that it will be technically sound and functionally fit, secure and reliable, and will work in the client and server environments where it needs to operate. There is nobody else.

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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

Especially in manufacturing-based industries, introducing more software that complements hardware can eliminate fixed costs and allow you to quickly scale up to a global level. And Mittelstand companies have fantastic opportunities, provided they digitize more of their existing business models.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Recently, a SentryOne customer contacted me about performance concerns with their SentryOne database.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. Another advantage of field measurements is that they match the approach taken by Google in order to collect performance data into the CrUX database. Upgrading Our Services And Infrastructure.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The first was c3.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!” using “22” for the year 2022).

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test. Cem Kaner, “Exploratory Testing” (November 17, 2006). However, it won’t necessarily check if the item was actually removed from the database?—?that What is testing?

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