O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Adrian Cockcroft outlines the architectural principles of chaos engineering and shares methods engineers can use to exercise failure modes in safety and business-critical systems Continue reading Developing a chaos architecture mindset.

Architecture 63

Architecture Development Engineering Systems 63

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time.

Azure 184

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

During the recent pandemic, organizations that lack processes and systems to scale and adapt to remote workforces and increased online shopping are feeling the pressure even more. Company brands are now measured by the “app” and “app experience” and expect every application to be as fast as Google.

Strategy 175

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 175

Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. Continuing this trajectory into the future improvements in the development of our software products will require many decisions. We are proud of how far we have come over the last 16+ years.

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Operating System Programming 91

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

As a company that’s ethos is based on a points-based system for health, by doing exercise and being rewarded with vouchers such as cinema tickets, the pandemic made both impossible tasks to do. Vitality had to respond quickly to this change by signing up new partners and developing new ways of incorporating rewards.

Speed 162

Speed Media Monitoring Engineering 162

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

For Federal, State and Local agencies to take full advantage of the agility and responsiveness of a DevOps approach to the software lifecycle, Security must also play an integral role across lifecycle stages. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 222

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 222

Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year. We skipped a few sessions (the exercises), but in retrospect we should have watched them all I think. Q: How long did it take? We spent maybe 5 hours each day watching the videos.

Transportation 52

Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

In software we use the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to enable us to keep track of our system versus our goals, often shown in a dashboard – like below –, to help us to reach an objective or provide an excellent service for users. Usual exceptions raised by our system that is now considered to be normal by Davis.

Metrics 164

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 164

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

If we accept the fact that Agile is a value system and not a set of mechanical processes, it stands to reason that there must be something different about the norms and behaviors of Agile managers vis-a-vis traditional managers. Create and adapt the mechanical processes and social systems through which the team gets things done.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. So, software is a part of a greater whole, and typically multiple generations of technologies must coexist peacefully and purposefully to provide a viable service. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Apple added frictionless, safe payment.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Tasktop

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I continued into technology, blossoming my understanding of software delivery and the building blocks of our electronic world today,” says Zoe Jong, Director of Revenue Operations at Tasktop. “ When I worked in the Sales Training Department at NVR, I helped roll out their new (at the time) CRM system to the entire company.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Education Programming 40

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. And in Salesforce we saw pipeline improving, software going out every 90 days instead of years.

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

You talk to the computer in one of these languages, and a piece of software called a compiler converts it into machine language. Most Linux systems don’t require this, so Linux users should omit the leading underscores from all such names. This is another punt on system calls. Like a dusty pane or warped mirror. .”

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing. Comments ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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. That’s an apt description for a lot of what goes on in IT, too. The plan is treated as a certainty.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Consider the scenario of an appointment scheduling system for a healthcare practice.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10