Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Open-source projects or open-source software is probably not a new term. In the past decade, open-source software contributions have been on a steady rise resulting in frequent releases, improvements and newer software. The software is for everybody to use, contribute or provide any help that they want.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A mobile phone company makes handsets for users and curates an app market place for developers. We can stand up marketplaces for mobile phone software or money lending or property investing. It's fashionable for a company to proclaim itself an ecosystem. Commercial ecosystems aren't complex, either.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. As a result, it saves critical developer time and expedites the mean time to resolution (MTTR). But it doesn’t stop there.

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Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

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Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last few years we’ve talked a lot about how at Dynatrace we have changed our development processes in order to deploy new feature releases with every sprint, as well as providing a fast-lane to production that allows us to deploy important updates to our customers within an hour. Developers: My security dashboard.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Brain cells connect via trillions of synapses in adaptable and complex ways.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Zombies probably won’t consume 32 GB of your memory like they did to me, but zombie processes do exist, and I can help you find them and make sure that developers fix them. I tweeted about my discovery and the investigation was picked up by another software developer and they reproed the bug using my ProcessCreateTests tool.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Perhaps, we should consider developing a central list of the elements, research, data, sources, and aspects to create legible and usable typefaces, so we can easily choose?

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. This does little to advance solution development, but it does a lot to make an organization afraid of its own shadow, hesitant to take action lest it violate unfamiliar rules or guidelines. There are two popular misconceptions.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

The bet on Agile was successful and, within a few years, the IT organization had transformed itself into a strong, reliable partner: transparency into spend, visibility into delivery, high-quality software, value for money. The logs indicated software was getting pushed, but more features remained toggled off than on.

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Government Programming Engineering Software 52

The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

This camp values practices such as test driven design, continuous integration, co-located and cross-functional teams, short development iterations, and frequent releases of software. How can anybody expect that deterministic project planning will keep pace with changes and discoveries made during development? 1 Brinsley, John.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

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. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. and chrono-node.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Templates.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Hire some developers fluent in a legacy technology, make sure you have an objective way of auditing their extraction of the rule base, and identify a cadre of employees who can understand those rules well enough to more comprehensively catalog and contextualize them.

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Strategy Java Code Systems 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2022

From roughly 2008 until 2019 or so, real estate in this area was inexpensive, a long-lived aftereffect of the 2008 financial crisis (fewer buyers) as well as changes in where and how people vacationed (fewer tourists). Unsurprisingly, some flashpoints have emerged. COVID-19 changed this. Let’s start with detection.

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Government Retail Games Storage 59

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Zones impact how we build, deploy, and operate software, as well as how we enforce security controls between our largest systems. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies!

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. We had already developed a service mesh control plane that implements the Envoy XDS services.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 14, 2009

We have to make sure teams are relentlessly focused on satisfying business need, from the time a requirement is captured to the time software is certified as production ready. This aligns the interests of the business (the buyer), the PMO (the buyer's agent and de-facto underwriter), and the development team. 16 July 2008.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Software Engineer. – [link].

Hardware 40

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

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Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

An interview with Trinity Software. Ahead of next week’s event, we spoke with Carmit Tsur – Business Development Manager at Trinity Software, Israel – about Tasktop’s partnership with the company as we work together to help customers to extract more business value from their software.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Economic subsidies are a common practice, typically sponsored by governments to protect or advance economic development. In theory, the surviving firm should have access to a larger labor pool spanning Subaru drivers to software developers, thus depressing wages, and thus the cost of service. in 2015 and recovering only to 63.2%

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Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! guiding principle, richness: Another thing to keep in mind about richness, as a developer, is that you’re probably not the average user. That was 2008. Here at Yahoo!, Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rewarding people for hitting financial targets created trading for trading's sake and runaway bonuses, culminating in an "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" culture that intensified the 2008 financial crisis. What most enterprises desperately need is learning and growth, not more software endpoints on the fringe of an impenetrable legacy hairball.

Metrics 40

Metrics Games Education Efficiency 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

A retailer might be concerned with a variety of other metrics and this variety is so huge that there is a separate econometric discipline – propensity modeling [SG09, LE13] – that develops different models that predict customers’ future behaviors. The most important propensity models include: Predicted lifetime value.

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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. Developers come and go. The plan is treated as a certainty. Business people come and go.

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