DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Observability is the ability to measure the state of a service or software system with the help of tools such as logs, metrics, and traces. In this article, we will discuss the importance of observability in distributed systems, the different tools used for monitoring, and the future of observability and Generative AI.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This article is more focused on overall system design and architecture than any other written by me till today — so consider yourself warned. In the article, I will try to answer a question: Can we scale systems indefinitely?

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J. Paul Reed

MARCH 14, 2019

The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations , I’ve been asked about the 737Max repeatedly over the past week. This is more about the facts we know right now and what it means for our industry.

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DZone

AUGUST 21, 2019

Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 30, 2018

In the following article I will try to provide you with some tips and tricks when applying and preparing for a job interview as a Software Engineer. The post TPDP Episode #16: Job Hunting As A Software Engineer appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A. 263–1–8 (2023) [ online ] [2] A.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This article offers valuable insight and information to anyone involved in software development, quality assurance, or digital product management who will be navigating the complexities of digital experience testing, whether they are software engineers, quality assurance professionals, or digital product managers.

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Tasktop

MARCH 5, 2020

This article will introduce you to six more ServiceNow integration patterns that are helping organizations to improve software delivery efficiency and business outcomes. . #2 Changes the developer makes to the defects’ status are visible to the QA engineer in test management. Subscribe now.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. This article was inspired by an email I received from Thomas Reisenbichler , Director of Autonomous Cloud Enablement on Friday, June 11 th. Dynatrace news.

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Uber Engineering

JUNE 19, 2017

In this article, San Francisco-based software engineer Yijun Liu reflects on his experiences working with … The post Re-Architecting Cash and Digital Wallet Payments for India with Uber Engineering appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). In this article, we address one of the most important and difficult challenges we see organizations we work with facing when introducing an AMET — forming the team and setting it up for success.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. In this article I’ve been referring to what Emily Peterson refers to as Development Value Streams. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Follow @ tameverts to stay updated on all her upcoming speaking engagements and articles. His articles for WebFundamentals are not to be missed. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Maximiliano Firtman.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

To continue on the topic of popular interview questions for software engineering positions, I figured it might be appropriate to go over solving a maze that was created using a two-dimensional array. A maze created from a 2D array can be solved using recursion similar to like we did for the previous Fibonacci article I made.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. An example of the error: The application does a buffered write and receives success.

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SQL Server According to Bob

OCTOBER 24, 2019

May articles explain that a client SYN followed by a server RST usually means the server is not listening on the port. Other articles highlight that a client SYN followed by client RST could be something like firewall blocking the outgoing traffic. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Don't be trapped by dogma A lot has been said and written about why something worked for Spotify may not apply to your organisation, and the purpose of this article is not to go in those discussions but to highlight practical issues with these models. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

And, we’re hiring Senior Software Engineers ! We pride ourselves on being experts at distributed systems development, operations and identity management. Reach out on LinkedIn if you are interested.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This article titled " Wie Unternehmen vom Vormarsch des maschinellen Lernens profitieren können " appeared in German last week in the "Digitaliserung" column of Wirtschaftwoche. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Machine Leaning at Amazon.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. This article provides an excellent explanation of how the CLS score is calculated and the reasoning behind it. We still have a lot of work to do!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

If this article has piqued your interest and you have a passion for solving cross-discipline distributed systems problems, our small but growing team is hiring ! Evolving Regional Evacuation was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The rest of the article presents some examples of this behavior and how it impacts our field, whether we care to admit it or not. One of the premises expounded upon ( link ) is that engineering/computer science does not appeal to young women and they choose other careers. Present Bias. Hence the lack of women in our field.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning ’), is the lack of documentation, metadata, and provenance. Once into the EDA process, another major challenge, that we’ve also looked at in the context of machine learning pipelines (e.g.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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Randon ASCII

MARCH 20, 2019

This article discusses a technique for solving this problem. If you write “software engineer” then you get in trouble when the mortgage broker calls your employer. It may also be possible to use the x87 FPU to emulate an FMA, somehow – I can’t remember what I concluded about that. Or maybe they decided that it was close enough.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. At my age, one knows better.

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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.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Special thanks to Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Principal Software Engineer) and Mirek Sztajno (Senior Program Manager) from the SQL Server product team for their assistance and guidance during the research and writing of this article. Unfortunately, these operations are not currently metadata-only for compressed objects.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If it helps, then in the software context if you mentally substitute ‘design and development’ every time Conway talks about design and the design organisation I don’t think you’ll go too far wrong. We’ve just learned to take smaller steps with each design increment before getting feedback.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

As a support professional I need to get in gear, I have 100s of support engineers too ready for SQL Server on Linux. I quickly got a MacBook and started coding on OS X as well as my Linux VMs, reading articles and books. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

As a follow-up to this paper you might also enjoy Nora Jones’ article on ‘ Chaos Engineering Traps.’. In addition, some self-serve users have begun experimenting with using ChAP for canary deployments because of the additional analysis that ChAP provides.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. In this first part of the article, we’ll start with the first five tips , and the rest will continue into the second part. We’re all worthy.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

None of the linked articles note browser competition's potential to upend app stores. Lest you think this an isolated incident, this article on the impact of the EU's DMA lacks any hint of the web's potential to unseat app stores. So why does the tech news fail to explain the situation? Also, this might all be Greek.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In the first article of this series, we discussed communal computing devices and the problems they create–or, more precisely, the problems that arise because we don’t really understand what “communal” means. In this article, we’ll take a deeper look at these questions, to see how the problems manifest and how to understand them.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

There are some older articles that discuss SNI client tracing and provide some of the older scripts and.MOF registration files. Bob Dorr​​ –​​ Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. ​​​​ Unless you have a private symbol file (.pdb)

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