Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. Continuing this trajectory into the future improvements in the development of our software products will require many decisions. We are proud of how far we have come over the last 16+ years.

Open Source 88

Open Source Database Operating System Programming 88

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. This blog post explains how a new software construct called a real-time digital twin running in a cloud-hosted service can create a breakthrough for streaming analytics. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. This blog post explains how a new software construct called a real-time digital twin running in a cloud-hosted service can create a breakthrough for streaming analytics. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

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.

Strategy 174

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 174

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. Let’s look at an example. Reliability.

Azure 184

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

For Federal, State and Local agencies to take full advantage of the agility and responsiveness of a DevOps approach to the software lifecycle, Security must also play an integral role across lifecycle stages. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 221

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 221

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our training sets for AI are dominated by content created by AI. At some point in the near future, new models will be trained on code that they have written.

Programming 89

Programming Processing Code Artificial Intelligence 89

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Faster and higher-quality software releases.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA. . That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. E*Trade isn’t alone.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. Does your traffic increase come with updated code changes that change the queries? Conclusion Capacity planning is not something you do once a year or more as part of a general exercise. Do these queries use more caches?

Traffic 88

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA. . That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. E*Trade isn’t alone.

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You create a new server with the same software and add it to the load balancer. 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. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Tasktop

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The code base has an open review process that every engineer can learn from with each change. We enjoy social hours such as team lunches, team exercises and happy hours. Would exercise and health be a good topic? We have a number of vacancies across the company in Business Development, Product Development and Sales.

Tuning 52

Tuning Engineering Programming Infrastructure 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

It wasn't until the 1950s (well, more accurately, the rise of COBOL in the 1960s) that we really started capturing business workflows in code. Then something happened that went largely un-noticed: those business people who had devised and performed the manual processes that defined the software solutions built in the '70s and '80s retired.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

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. First and foremost, as Paul Hammant is fond of saying, there are no passengers in an Agile team.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Regression testing comprises re-running the test cases of already stable features and finding out if the new code changes attributed to the new release led to any negative impacts on the existing functionalities. Regression checks should start as soon as a new build is released for testing and should be repeated for every new code build.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

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.

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. Exercise/outdoors. Design and development. One of my favorite features that is often missing in many appointment form software is the option to customize the order of the form.

Games 127

Games Availability Software Software 127

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

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

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.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

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.

Mobile 49

Mobile Code Java Software 49

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Removing unnecessary layers of software and designing with an eye towards the future has the potential to enable vast improvements in programmability, data sharing, and security – but this will only be possible if our design decisions permeate all levels of the software stack. Cross-object pointers make this easy and natural.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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. Let's stick to what we know to create the software - because that's what the business needs, right? -

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Hence the DSLabs framework integrates model checking into a holistic distributed systems development environment (based on Java as the implementation language – it would be neat to see a Rust version!).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Games Azure Software Engineering 40

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. They’d say that the job involves writing some software, sure. But deep down it’s about the purpose of software.

Tuning 130

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Traditional IT projects are mass economy-of-scale exercises: once development begins, armies of developers are unleashed. So in Traditional IT we stage large volumes of work to keep the largest and most expensive pool of people – developers – busy in the hopes of maximizing their productive effort.

Latency 40

Latency Code Metrics Testing 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Blue/green deployment for releasing software faster, safer. Let’s assume your team has just pushed new code and it passed pre-deployment testing. This allows the developer on-call to take swift action and fix the problem. Usually different services are owned by different teams and developers. Dynatrace Davis in action.

Systems 26

Systems Traffic DevOps Database 26

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. We advocate that when you develop your performance budget, you focus on these user-centric milestones over technical milestones. Collaborate.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. 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.

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Tool 1: Dolly the Sheep Companies that are heavily rule-based - think insurance - eagerly moved their business rules into code. It was easy to move into code; it's just as easy to move it back into human-readable format. A clone of something extinct - our lost business knowledge - runs the risk of suffering severe defects.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 16, 2011

As a tribute in honor of Dennis Ritchie’s passing , I’d like to invite you to share your thoughts in this post’s comments about your first C program – either the code if you remember it approximately, or a story about when you wrote it. After all, this was just a warm-up initial exercise for the course. Here’s mine. Never even seen it.

C++ 40

C++ Programming Code Development 40

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. To mitigate this, we run containers as unprivileged users?—?making

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286