InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

Storage 109

Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 109

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer.

Design 106

Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 106

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

Software Engineering 80

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end).

Software 245

Software Software Code Energy 245

DZone

JANUARY 25, 2024

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is a programming technology designed for the Linux operating system (OS) kernel space, enabling developers to create efficient, secure, and non-intrusive programs.

Monitoring 161

Monitoring Programming Operating System Efficiency 161

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. At the same time, we want to have an interactive website with comments, polls, videos, code examples, and many more. Deploy the code example with your favorite hosting provider (e.g. Get Started.

Code 109

Code Website Open Source Design 109

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

Design 107

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. ” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail.

Systems 81

Systems Testing Software Software 81

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience.

Traffic 231

Traffic Best Practices Architecture Infrastructure 231

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. Just think of it like a stricter version of designing your software in such a way that it is easily testable). SOSP’19.

Code 45

Code Systems Programming Google 45

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. During the development stage, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open-source code or make an error in application logic.

Monitoring 220

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 220

Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

Architecture 98

Architecture Design Software Architecture Strategy 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors.

Cloud 217

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 217

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Vitaly Friedman.

Mobile 87

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

Design 98

Design Testing Education Processing 98

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Microsoft initially designed the OS for internal use to develop and manage Azure services. What is Azure Linux?

Azure 233

Azure Monitoring Operating System Virtualization 233

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

AutomationEngine provides a low-code/no-code approach to model workflows for targeted notification and collaboration, closed-loop remediation, quality/security gating, and more. AutomationEngine workflow example for a bespoke ordering system. Build a custom task running JS code. Jira ticket transition status change.

DevOps 226

DevOps AWS Monitoring Code 226

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage. Use a safe development life cycle with secure design patterns and components. Apply threat modeling and plausibility checks.

Open Source 206

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 206

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. Striking a balance between eBPF’s benefits and system load is crucial, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders our operational efficiency.

Performance 174

Performance Benchmarking Programming Open Source 174

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recent platform enhancements in the latest Dynatrace, including business events powered by Grail™, make accessing the goldmine of business data flowing through your IT systems easier than ever. Business events can come from many sources, including OneAgent®, external business systems, RUM sessions, or log files.

Processing 198

Processing Monitoring Analytics Games 198

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Systems are constantly changing, with pods existing only briefly to perform tasks before they’re terminated. Dynatrace is the only Kubernetes monitoring solution that provides continuous automation and full-stack automated observability without changing code, container images, or deployments. Dynatrace news.

Design 102

Design Google Architecture Traffic 102

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Build stage General practice The build stage involves pulling the latest code, compiling it, and ensuring its proper functionality by running feature tests. Leverage Dynatrace features The instrumentation flow currently operates as follows: After code commits, a GitHub action is employed to trigger the workflow, utilizing the workflow API.

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Innovation Architecture Code Processing 231

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. Considering open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, this threat is not going anywhere anytime soon. Cloud operations and observability boost resilience for American Family – blog.

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Open Source DevOps Java Innovation 229

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. For example, poorly written code can consume a lot of resources, or an application can make unnecessary calls to cloud services. This includes spot instances such as unused cloud capacity that’s available at a discounted price.

Best Practices 240

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 240

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. OS X, which used to trumpet “It just works,” has evolved to “it used to just work”; the most user-centric Unix-like system ever built now staggers under the load of new and poorly thought-out features. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.

Software 121

Software Software Development Programming 121

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

Integration tests (tests of multiple modules) and acceptance tests (tests of entire systems) are more difficult. Security is yet another issue: is an AI system able to red-team an application? We quickly run into an extension of Kernighan’s Law : debugging is twice as hard as writing code. I can talk about level design.

Games 76

Games Programming Testing Code 76

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira.

DevOps 199

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 199

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

SREs improve the reliability of production systems, and reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) is their top priority. But research shows that 60% of SREs find they spend most of their time building and maintaining automation code. MTTR reduction remains top of the list for SREs. A shift to SRE-driven engineering takes hold.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379> <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For system administrators, operations engineers, and others with strong systems and software backgrounds, there’s perhaps no better time than the present to transition into DevOps. Interviews can range from standard software engineer coding questions to questions on system design, Linux debugging, and DevOps tools.

DevOps 275

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Engineering 275

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. By identifying the exact code or trace that causes a failure, Davis AI helps teams fix problems quickly and significantly reduces MTTR.

Engineering 234

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 234

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. According to the 2022 CISO Research Report , only 25% of respondents’ security teams “can access a fully accurate, continuously updated report of every application and code library running in production in real-time.”

Traffic 170

Traffic Java Network DevOps 170