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. All these terms refer to related technology and practices. What does APM stand for?

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

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. In contrast, real-time digital twins analyze incoming telemetry from each data source and track changes in its state.

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. In contrast, real-time digital twins analyze incoming telemetry from each data source and track changes in its state.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

J. Paul Reed

AUGUST 7, 2023

(It’s worth noting: the right end of the spectrum also covers the more… “exotic” action items, like “This was caused by a Windows-issue, so let’s migrate our entire self-run physical infrastructure to Linux and rewrite the entire code base.” In practice (and I’ve done this exercise with teams), this spectrum can provide useful insight.

Engineering 52

Engineering Hardware Games Infrastructure 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

They were in consultants in logistics, and they were lamenting how one of their clients was struggling in the wake of a business process change that another firm - a tech consultancy - had agitated for their mutual client to adopt. Early on, business technology was mostly large-scale labor-saving data processing.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process. It had licensed a workflow technology and contracted a large number of people to code and configure a custom solution around it. When that happens, the exercise tends to yield no better than "less bad."

Programming 59

Programming Testing Code Technology 59

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 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. All useful, but not directly contributory to the technology asset itself.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

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

Tasktop

OCTOBER 4, 2019

We all know about the genius of Alan Turing in cracking the Enigma code, turning WWII in the Allies’ favor. But what about the contributions of his colleague Joan Clarke, a marveled code-breaker at Bletchley Park with a double-first degree in mathematics from Oxford? We all are consumers of technologies.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Education Programming 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Industry commentators often write as though the transition to mobile rigidly aligned OSes with specific technology platforms. Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

So, software is a part of a greater whole, and typically multiple generations of technologies must coexist peacefully and purposefully to provide a viable service. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO. They were too wrapped up in silly technology debates (e.g.,

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

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. In doing so, they automate build processes to speed up delivery, and minimize human involvement to prevent error. Step 1 — The Dynatrace Davis AI-engine identifies the root cause.

Systems 26

Systems Traffic DevOps Database 26

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. Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Credit: Devin Harold.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

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

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

M&A is a great process for creating fees for bankers, and for destroying the value held by shareholders." -- John Authers, writing in the Financial Times Industries tend to go through waves of deal-making. Glossy proclamations of new strategic visions often boil down to a prosaic cost-cutting exercise, or into a failure of implementation."

Airlines 40

Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Alice is great at fixing hard bugs, writing test suites, doing code merges, and other unglamorous work. He trash-talks other technologies, companies, and people behind their backs, always finding something negative to say. He also attacks technologies that either don't leverage his own prior work, or don't conform to his own beliefs.

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The building blocks of multi-tenancy are Linux namespaces , the very technology that makes LXC, Docker, and other kinds of containers possible. 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. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Often, big brands have already established guidelines which mean there’s less room for me to experiment and exercise my creative muscles. The periods where design changes often go step-by-step with advances in technology. These days, product companies seem more interested in refining interfaces and simplifying user experiences.

Design 91

Design Media Development Energy 91

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Figuring out what kinds of problems are amenable to automation through code. So it behooves a software developer to spot what portions of human activity can be properly automated away through code, and then build that. Because if companies use code to automate business rules, they use ML/AI to automate decisions.

Tuning 130

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments. Who did what and when?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

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. Getting feedback from auditors from get-go can simplify the process, explained Wolf. Roberts agreed. Excellence in action.

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

The Agile Manager

MAY 27, 2008

It ignores that any given person may misunderstand or outright disagree with a task, a technology choice or a work estimate. To wit: writing requirements to get past the next “phase gate” in the project lifecycle is not the same as writing actionable statements of business need that developers can code into functionality.

Government 40

Government Code Technology Technology 40