ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. Development is fast and straightforward using standard object-oriented techniques, and the test/debug cycle is kept short by making use of a mock environment running on the developer’s workstation. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although completing a story may require contribution from people in different roles - QA analyst and developer and experience designer, for example - each person is still responsible for the entire outcome of the story. An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). Developers can also explicitly annotate an operation as @vulnerable. Characterising partial failures. OmegaGen in action.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Chrome team explains that “we are being very mindful of our approach to setting the bar for what is considered good user experience and hope to land on something that is practically achievable by all developers.”. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Source: Chromium.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Instead, the bug should be reported to the human developer who can fix the bug.

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change.

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Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

In my records for the entire day, I put one color code for my work hours and will have a separate diagram specifically to break up my work hours. You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Exercise/outdoors. Design and development.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

In some cases, if only a very few, these assets continue to be used because they still work very well, were thoughtfully designed, and have been well cared for over the years. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. They create a good starting point to talk about a full website or individual page or section from a performance and design perspective.

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Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Alex Russell

JUNE 12, 2018

” muttered the thoughtful developer (just before filing an issue at crbug.com ). The community of web developers and browser vendors share this norm. Developers benefit when interop extends the reach of their products and services. This isn’t how things work in practice, nor is it how feature design should work.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

As a set of goals for software development, this troika is incomplete because it neglects quality. Mainly because they can't see how easily quality is compromised in development. It's easy to assume that requirements and specifications are sufficiently thorough, the developer just needs to work to the spec. Be predictable.

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Mobile Code Java Software 49

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

Before joining Microsoft in 1994 I worked at State Farm Insurance and spent several years in a testing group and later joined a team developing applications against SQL Server for OS/2. We developed a friendly competition to break one another’s code. For example, we were designing how to capture a crash dump.

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Servers Games Azure Software Engineering 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. We will use xMatters’ Flow Designer to create toolchains that automate remediation, and Dynatrace’ keptn to automate continuous operations. Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Davis in action.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. The existing systems have their shortcomings, but we run a multi-billion dollar business on that code, so we must be pretty good at software. The latter will result in systemic distortions in the code, courtesy Conway's Law.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. Data scientists want to retain their freedom to use arbitrary, idiomatic Python code to express their business logic?—?like The steps can be arbitrary Python code. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The tester established a baseline by selecting the most critical, common, or obvious path through the code selection. Steps to Performing Basis Path Testing The first step is to create a control flow graph for a specified code section. The second step is to select a baseline path through the code.

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Testing Software Software C++ 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Devin Harold. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Hopefully you went through the exercise of picking which rendering metric best corresponds to what you feel is a "good UX". There are certain design elements - the call-to-action, the hero image, etc. Identifying critical content without requiring website owners to modify their code is an exciting goal for future work.

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Metrics Website Speed Monitoring 68

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. We also quickly check for system events and see there were no scheduled code deploys in the last week. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them.

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Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 226

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. Data scientists want to retain their freedom to use arbitrary, idiomatic Python code to express their business logic?—?like The steps can be arbitrary Python code. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Change starts by thoroughly evaluating whether the current architecture, tools, and processes for configuration, infrastructure, code delivery pipelines, testing, and monitoring enable improved customer experience faster and with high quality or not. Constantly reinventing wheels with a “Not Invented Here” bias.

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Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 178

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” according to a statement signed by more than 350 business and technical leaders, including the developers of today’s most important AI platforms. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. In his book Voices in the Code , James G.

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Government Best Practices Energy Efficiency 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework? Reliability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These vulnerabilities arise due to the complexity of interactions between namespaces, a large number of historical decisions during kernel development, and leaky abstractions like the proc filesystem in Linux. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces Fortunately, Linux has a solution?—?User User Namespaces.

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. If you peek under the hood of an ML-powered application, these days you will often find a repository of Python code. Why: Data Makes It Different.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a PostgreSQL user wants to change these values, they need to recompile the PostgreSQL from the source code. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. Changing these values at compile time is not intended for common use.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He demonstrated how a more elegant functional design—combining immutability, purity, and duality of code and data—can save larger enterprises millions of dollars, as demonstrated by his previous work at Walmart. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers. Tasktop Viz in action.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. As Chris likes to say, a front-end developer is aware. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

These contributors represent people from high school and undergrad students to full professors, from commercial developers to conference speakers, and from every continent except Antarctica. On the cppfront wiki, see the Design Note “operator=, this & that” for details.

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C++ Virtualization Lambda Code 97

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. The Twizzler KVS (key-value store) is just 250 lines of C code, and uses one persistent object for the index structure, and a second one for the data.

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56