Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery.

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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.

Performance 52

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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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, The productivity is there, and will intensify with technologies such as AI and ML; the instrumentation simply doesn't exist to measure it. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

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Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times.

Performance 110

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines. To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Older Intel processors are more vulnerable to these exploits, and they suffer more of a performance decrease from existing software and firmware-level fixes.

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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.

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Metrics Games Education Efficiency 40

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 The appetite for operational data has increased significantly. What does all this mean?

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. As the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became glaringly obvious that few bank directors had any detailed understanding of either banking or risk.) There are two popular misconceptions. The confusion about governance in IT is a result of too narrow a focus.

Government 58

Government Strategy Technology Technology 58

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! That was 2008.

Google 40

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 12, 2011

In the previous post , we took a look at market factors that suggest the technology sector could be on a multi-year bull run, in a bubble, or possibly both. automakers and appliance makers are all in the software business now). Bull markets and bubbles create volatility of commercial technology. Hedge your technology exposure.

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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.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. People rarely create them manually.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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. Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies. 1 Brinsley, John.

Best Practices 40

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

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. The technology doesn’t work out as planned. The plan is treated as a certainty. Developers come and go.

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