Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

How to assess an environment’s security posture, risk and threat profile, and possible attack vectors, where perhaps you didn’t code the application or build the infrastructure, and where new code is deployed frequently, and the infrastructure is constantly changing? Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

Government 225

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 225

Strategic Tech

JUNE 21, 2020

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. Visualising Progress The theme of our workshop was to teach Strategic Domain-Driven Design using the Bounded Context Canvas as a visual model to aid learning. Digital tools like Miro allows us to design workshops as interactive journeys.

Design 98

Design Logistics Transportation Architecture 98

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. Rethinking the process means digital transformation. What are the key requirements to address these challenges?

Strategy 178

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 178

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Now go rewrite all your code… we’ll wait…are you done yet? Technically, this is all done over MSMQ where requests are processed and eventually granted or rejected, notifying other services of the outcome. The NServiceBus Messaging Bridge The NServiceBus Messaging Bridge was designed specifically for these scenarios.

Cloud 126

Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

Design 91

Design Media Development Energy 91

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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. Thinking, Remembering And Processing Information Better. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Programming 102

Programming Energy Code Processing 102

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.

Database 105

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 105

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

In contrast, a process suffering a total failure can be quickly identified, restarted, or repaired by existing mechanisms, thus limiting the failure impact. 71% of failures are triggered by a specific environment condition, input, or faults in other processes. Characterising partial failures. a restart) is made. OmegaGen in action.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. Debugging with a Mock Environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. Debugging with a Mock Environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tracking the processes to plan better. During a testing process, you need to track and plan the testing activities such as: Test planning Test scripts writing Test data creation and management Test versioning, review, and approvals Test case scheduling Test reporting. helps in having a clear picture of the testing process.

Testing 52

Testing Internet Internet Testing Tools 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. What is it that makes Agile management different from traditional management?

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”. Unfortunately, some business owners don’t understand that buying a theme and implementing it isn’t the end of the process.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

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. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. sysbench is a widely used open-source benchmarking tool that is designed to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and database systems.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

A technique called process tracing was employed to try and recover "a record of participant data acquisition, situation assessment, knowledge activation, expectations, intentions, and actions as the case unfolds over time." The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

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. When finally we had all the processes migrated, we celebrated as we decommissioned Public102. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times. Basically, Google offers a foundational code package called a module that you can then remake to suit your needs. This PageSpeed service offers two types of package for web servers: Apache module and Nginx module.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. " The eventual Blink fork was precipitated by an insurmountable difficulty in doing precisely what Apple suggested to Congress: contributing code upstream to WebKit to enable new features. It's worth assessing these claims from most easily falsified to most contested.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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.

Games 126

Games Availability Software Software 126

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. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unfortunately strong consistency is at odds with performance… On the other hand weak consistency models… put a tremendous burden on the application designer to reason about the complex interleavings of operations that are allowed by these weak consistency models. ” Automating more of this process is future work.

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

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. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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.

Design 145

Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. 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.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. It’s hard to exhaustively test a distributed system with traditional testing techniques. So DSLabs also uses model checking.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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 eagle-eyed reader will have noticed another feature of this work in that quotation: the aim is to create a global address space that spans nodes and processes.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Alex Russell

JUNE 12, 2018

The web standards process fails us too often. Some presume that features which are standardised at these organisations originated within them — that essential design work is the product of conversations in committee. If vendors implement what standards say, then surely being part of the standards process is how to affect change.

Design 43

Design Engineering Government Processing 43

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. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Devin Harold.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

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. Here’s what we discussed so far: In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization. Dynatrace Davis in action.

Systems 26

Systems Traffic DevOps Database 26

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Working with never-ending streams of data necessitates continuous processing of it, ensuring the system keeps up with the load patterns it is exposed to, and always provides real-time, up-to-date information. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Sandboxing is now universal (tho quality may differ) and we collectively got savvy about running code quickly while retaining memory safety.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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. and then we'll change process and organization once it's up and running. Changing those takes time.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40