The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Bureaucracy was discredited.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. Even after gaining access, one needed to deal with the challenges of homogeneity across different assets in terms of decoding performance, size, metadata, and general formatting.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This data is from the 2007 presentation.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

Assessments are based, not on whether the decisions made are any good, but on whether they were made in accordance with what is deemed to be an appropriate process. And detailed they are, often down to the specific task that will be performed by the specific "resource" (never "person", it's always "resource") on a specific day.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. IT reward systems are also often based on individual performance tied to granular and highly focused statements of accomplishment. 6 “What we are is a high performance team.”

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Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

While the systems and solutions it produces might automate tasks of the business, not to mention allow for complex tasks not otherwise practical to be manually executed, the production of those systems is a people-centric process. This presents both a dilemma and a competitive opportunity for companies today.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

Our Lean IT organization faces a two-phase exposure similar to the credit crisis that struck Wall Street in 2007. and the IT context (how do all these systems actually work together?) IT people master the situational complexity necessary to keep the systems that run the business humming. Initially, we face a liquidity crisis.

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Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

The tools use either the referenced or the idle page flags to measure a page-based WSS, and were developed out of necessity for another performance problem. ## Method 1: Referenced Page Flag This uses a kernel feature added in Linux 2.6.22: the ability to set and read the referenced page flag from user space, added for analyzing memory usage. . -

Cache 71

Cache Latency C++ Programming 71

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. Applications.

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Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

The tools use either the referenced or the idle page flags to measure a page-based WSS, and were developed out of necessity for another performance problem. ## Method 1: Referenced Page Flag This uses a kernel feature added in Linux 2.6.22: the ability to set and read the referenced page flag from user space, added for analyzing memory usage. . -

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems. Today, data needs to be available at all times, serving its users—both humans and computer systems—across all time zones, continuously, in close to real time.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

It provides guarantees for availability, performance and completeness for delivery of identified, regimented services or functionality. Being asked to do nothing more than assume risk for something such as availability or performance of technology is appealing from an IT perspective because it’s a space we know, or at least we think we know.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Execution risk is not simply the risk that things don't get done; e.g., that excessive days out of office prevent people from performing tasks by specific dates. The business processes that need to be defined, modeled and automated to fulfill that market opportunity will not be established at the front end of a project.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io. Processed 4.15 With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough. Processed 4.15 Processed 8.19 Processed 8.19

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40