Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. This necessitates a good understanding of the domains the software represents.

Software Engineering 80

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. The change process itself must be planned and controlled.

Programming 99

Programming Software Software Software Engineering 99

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Now, let’s take a deeper look into the actions and processes we put in place in order to achieve these significant results. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ A really interesting thing happens when you go from developing a Software 1.0 (i.e., In Software 1.0

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2020

Just like all other regions of the world, Dynatrace customers in Latin American (LATAM) are confronting new challenges as the global pandemic of COVID-19 forces companies to adapt to application and software demands. And more importantly, can organizations’ infrastructure cope with the increasing demand?

Retail 176

Retail Government Infrastructure Mobile 176

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

E.g., to see process execution with timestamps using execsnoop(8): # execsnoop-bpfcc -T. If you want to run these tools 24x7, study overheads to understand the cost first. Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. Then try running a tool.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. By making it easier and faster to set up and manage Kubernetes, OpenShift enhances developer productivity by simplifying CI/CD processes.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Meet Jason Grodan, a Software Training Specialist at Tasktop! My role at Tasktop is a ‘Software Training Specialist’. What does a typical day as a Software Training Specialist look like for you? It can be time consuming, but I actually really enjoy this process because I get to test out and learn about Tasktop’s new features.

Software 52

Software Software Software Engineering Infrastructure 52

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

With PBM 2.2.0 , we introduce numerous fixes that put these limitations in the past: Previously the database, after restoring from a full backup, was allowing connections that required manual changes to restrict users from connecting to it before the PITR restore finishes so that the result of the restore process guarantees data integrity.

Availability 74

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 74

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

It was the promise that they could deliver software faster, more frequently, and with higher degrees of quality, enabling the business to respond better to constantly changing customer demand. But when we first embarked on this journey, we looked like a very traditional software company: Two releases per year. Zero daily deployments.

Cloud 138

Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring 138

Tasktop

JANUARY 30, 2020

Set by the workers who know best about the current state of the value stream, as well as the talent and processes needed to support it, Flow Distribution helps development teams to have an important conversation with the business (Product/Line of Business owners) about how trade-offs impact the business. Flow Distribution in Action.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Metrics Tuning Software 52

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Companies execute their post-incident analysis process differently, and generate different artifacts ; some of these differences can be correlated to traits of the company (job role, company size, etc.). Some of the highlights?

Programming 75

Programming Engineering Systems Software 75

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Built and released with automated processes. Despite a drive for clear, modular monolithic codebases, all too often these arbitrary in-process boundaries break down. That complexity is often managed with tooling, automation, and process. Messaging enabled. Bounded by contexts. Autonomously developed. Independently deployable.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Systems Code 80

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

While Smart gave a concise overview of what OKRs are and what good and bad OKRs look like, our CEO and founder Dr. Mik Kersten shared a compelling case study into the role of flow in OKRs. The focus on mindset and people, not process. How do we give the software delivery organization a louder voice in business strategy?

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this digital-first climate, software and IT systems can make a significant difference as organizations across most industries become increasingly virtual enterprises. While not new, software-driven platforms—such as telehealth (or telemedicine), e-consultations and e-subscriptions—are witnessing a surge in adoption in recent months.

Healthcare 64

Healthcare Automotive Logistics Metrics 64

Tasktop

MARCH 18, 2021

From the start, I was excited to be interning for a software company that would introduce me to the world of tech and the role(s) marketing plays in a tech company. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox. I could see how my prior coursework and co-curricular experience prepared me for this internship. Subscribe now.

Social Media 52

Social Media Media Design Software 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These observations are from a particular type of A/B test that Netflix runs called a software canary or regression-driven experiment. Netflix also performs canary tests — software A/B tests between current and newer software versions. Rationale : This system is part of a semi-automated process for all client deployments.

Testing 239

Testing Software Software Metrics 239

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

While basic, I've solved many perf issues with this tool alone, including for misconfigured systems where a shell script is launching failing processes in a loop, and when some minor application is crashing and is restarting every few minutes but has not yet been noticed. ## 2. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. acpid [.]

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Testsigma

MAY 7, 2020

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. So the complete process was reviewed and evaluated. Finally, a process for test data management was implemented.

Testing 60

Testing Storage Database Processing 60

Highly Scalable

JANUARY 31, 2012

Several practical case studies are also provided. It is required to save all items that have the same value of function into one file or perform some other computation that requires all such items to be processed as a group. Reducer obtains all items grouped by function value and process or save them.

C++ 144

C++ Network Ecommerce Processing 144

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. The third stand-out issue was “no server maintenance.”

Serverless 87

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 87

Tasktop

MARCH 18, 2021

From the start, I was excited to be interning for a software company that would introduce me to the world of tech and the role(s) marketing plays in a tech company. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox. I could see how my prior coursework and co-curricular experience prepared me for this internship. Subscribe now.

Social Media 40

Social Media Media Design Software 40

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This is the AWS Professional Services built tooling that customers can use to track the carbon footprint of their operations and processes, along with a customer example. DOP315 Sustainability in the cloud with Rust and AWS Graviton  — Emil Lerch AWS Principal DevOps Specialist and Esteban Kuber AWS Principal Software Engineer.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

No real best practices or case studies to guide us because the new market conditions are yet to be fully identified or understood. Many established organizations have been too focused on using IT to maintain operations and improving existing processes, instead of creating value to innovate and remain competitive. .

Internet 86

Internet Internet Innovation DevOps 86

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. The actual launch requests per second (RPS) rate was nearly 50x that estimate—enough to present a scaling challenge for nearly any software stack.

Google 130

Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

There was business-partner-specific code and processes which people simply had no detailed knowledge of. The e-commerce software was a mess: only somebody familiar with the code could make sense of it. Consider our case study. There was no one person who knew the business from end-to-end.

Code 40

Code Processing Innovation Development 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Some one-liners: # New processes with arguments bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve { join(args->argv); }'. Files opened by process bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_open { printf("%s %sn", comm, str(args->filename)); }'. Pages paged in by process bpftrace -e 'software:major-faults:1 { @[comm] = count(); }'.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. RDS also simplifies the process of automatic scaling based on workload demand, adding or subtracting replicas to efficiently distribute read requests and reduce costs during low demand.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Far memory brings many potential benefits over near memory: higher memory capacity through disaggregation, separate scaling between processing and far memory, better availability due to separate fault domains for far memory, and better shareability among processors. It’s not all straightforward though. A worked example.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

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. I have a new idea. 1 Let’s track it with JIRA.

Education 35

Education Programming Processing DevOps 35

J. Paul Reed

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the vein of my 2016 prediction that DevOps will continue dis-integrating , I believe that we’ll see a process of “ othering ” with definitions of DevOps that are not highly aligned with the The Handbook’s definition, along with pressure to rename those ideas to soemthing other than “DevOps.” And we now have that.

DevOps 40

DevOps Engineering IoT C++ 40

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. Android UI Testing is the process of testing an android application for UI issues. Then again the same process repeats. Android UI Testing and Its Types. Perform Usability Testing.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Adaptive query processing in SQL databases – Bob Ward and Conor Cunningham. Azure Cosmos DB: design patterns and case studies – Andrew Liu. If anything just come to see me explain the architecture which is an amazing innovative piece of software. I want to come to this one myself.

Engineering 40

Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40