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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. However, it definitely is not. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised.

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Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

Dynatrace

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. With Configuration as Code, developers can manage their observability and security tasks with config files that can be developed alongside source code conveniently and at scale.

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From Student to Junior Software Engineer at Tasktop

Tasktop

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. Upon reflection, I now realize that the answers to these questions were neither a definitive yes or no.

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Though I have spent the last ~17 years (In 2021) of my life coding and perfecting my Java and J2EE skill — I suddenly feel. Ahem, Slow!

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Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases.

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Scaling Appsec at Netflix (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

The team is now investing in consistency and scalability of partnership artifacts and communication channels, better redundancy and context sharing on the team through squad operating models, crisper engagement criteria , and definition of done for partnership engagements.

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OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

Dynatrace

Like the tree in the forest, the microservice falling definitely made a sound. But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. But as he put it, “It would have been quite a bit of custom code to handle our volume of data.” What is OpenTelemetry?