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. Overall, our study reveals that partial failure is a common and severe problem in large software systems.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

Development 258

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 258

Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Percona is dedicated to open source software. But recently, open source software has come under attack. Once open source software is being locked away by changing licenses and code that you depended on. You either get to pay for the privilege of having less freedom or find yourself sequestered with rapidly aging software.

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Open Source Software Software Hardware 116

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

Customers deserve to use a secure product, and Dynatrace has continuously upgraded its game in improving the security of its software. We’ve recently joined forces with Hackerone , the industry leader in external bug bounty programs. Wait, what is a bug bounty program? Why does it matter to me as a customer?

Programming 141

Programming Games Website Software 141

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. First, we wondered about code quality. We know how to test whether or not code is correct (at least up to a certain limit).

Code 120

Code Programming C++ Testing 120

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Recently, some organizations fell victim to a software supply chain attack, which led to loss of confidential data. This article explains what a software supply chain attack is, and how Dynatrace protects its customers against such attacks by applying: Risk management and business continuity planning. It all starts with the code.

Software 230

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That’s why many organizations are turning to generative AI—which uses its training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries—and platform engineering to create new efficiencies and opportunities for innovation. No one will be around who fully understands the code.

Technology 200

Technology Technology Artificial Intelligence Analytics 200

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Cloud applications are built with the help of a software supply chain, such as OSS libraries and third-party software. According to recent research , 68% of CISOs say vulnerability management has become more difficult due to increased software supply chain and cloud complexity.

Monitoring 208

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 208

Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Considering our audience’s interest, this post examines the best software for a web design Services Company in 2023. Access to the appropriate software tools may make all the difference in developing efficient web design solutions. How do you navigate the software landscape for a web design company?

Design 59

Design Software Software Website 59

Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2024

By bringing developers and IT operations teams together, teams can collaborate to accelerate software development times, increase workflow efficiency, automate manual tasks, and create higher-quality software. DevOps can also reduce human error throughout the software deployment process.

C++ 182

C++ Artificial Intelligence DevOps Innovation 182

DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

API Test is crucial for the software systems to function at high quality. Every app you build nowadays completely relies on Application Programming Interfaces. Application Programming Interface acts as the center level between the database and presentation layer in the software development procedure.

Testing 207

Testing Programming Performance Database 207

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. 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. Data-Driven Tools.

Systems 81

Systems Testing Software Software 81

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance. What is the software really supposed to do? What does this mean for code that you haven’t written?

Games 77

Games Programming Testing Code 77

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The program advocates for a shift in behavior nationwide. Vulnerability management Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, rectifying, and reporting software vulnerabilities. This approach helps organizations deliver more secure software and infrastructure with greater efficiency and speed.

Best Practices 205

Best Practices Benchmarking Speed Infrastructure 205

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. To invest in formally modelling something, you really need to have a very good idea of what the software needs to do. SOSP’19.

Code 45

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Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Artem Maltsev Abstractions are a necessary part of software development. Imagine building an e-commerce store for books and writing code for each title instead of just having code for the concept of “book” and reusing it for all titles. Not having them would make certain things ridiculous.

Programming 67

Programming Code Software Software 67

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. IT modernization can help.

Government 200

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 200

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

This is easier said than done, so we’ve designed three sets of OKRs examples for software companies to show how it’s possible. Examples of quarterly OKRs for software companies. Launch a mentorship program. Shorten handover from Systems Engineers to Software Developers by X%. Key Results. Activities.

Software 96

Software Software Healthcare Mobile 96

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Managing these risks involves using a range of technology solutions, from in-house, do-it-yourself solutions to third-party, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Institutionalize processes for technical stress testing and technical audits of trading systems.

Analytics 197

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 197

O'Reilly

JULY 11, 2023

There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. But what does this mean in practice?

Programming 99

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integration with the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform takes automated remediation to a whole new level. Whether deployment of a new system, a new release, or a rolling patch update, I wanted it done consistently and successfully every time. Everything I did was automation.

Games 290

Games Monitoring Infrastructure DevOps 290

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

While these vulnerabilities aren’t anything new, the modular and distributed nature of modern software development introduces a new potential for application security risks. Security misconfiguration Security misconfiguration covers the basic security checks every software development process should include.

Open Source 194

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 194

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

If you’re evaluating container orchestration software to manage containerized applications at scale, you may be wondering about the differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.”

Open Source 203

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 203

O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. Going in the other direction, GPT-3 has proven to be surprisingly good at explaining code. In the 1950s, computers were programmed in machine language.

Programming 105

Programming Java C++ Design 105

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Log4Shell required many organizations to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to IT systems and sensitive data. The CVE Program, which publishes vulnerabilities as they become known, reported a 25% increase in vulnerabilities between 2021 and 2022.

Cloud 183

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 183

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

The software will never be bug-free. Bugs could come up due to different reasons, in this article, we will discuss them from the perspective of software errors. We can divide the errors during software development into two sections for easy understanding: Software errors Testing errors. Software errors.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It left the applications, systems, and IT infrastructure of millions of organizations open to widespread exploitation. For Avisi , a software development and cloud services company in the Netherlands, its Log4Shell response was immediate and automatic. The applications include custom code and, in some cases, sensitive data.

Healthcare 173

Healthcare Transportation Innovation Games 173

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

Software Engineering 80

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Software developers are finding it easier to integrate with the DBaaS model, especially when developing mobile apps. DBaaS, a prominent cloud service, is one of the fastest-growing categories of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings and is expected to reach $320 billion by 2025. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

Metrics 177

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 177

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 174

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now, with the hard work done, you can sit back, relax, and witness the collaboration between your Dev and Ops teams as they deliver better quality software faster. Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code. If only it were that easy. Deployment frequency.

DevOps 196

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 196

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Designing and writing software systems that generate prompts automatically. This work is increasingly falling under the rubric RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), in which a program takes a request, looks up data relevant to that request, and packages everything in a complex prompt. To say nothing of debugging and testing.)

Programming 100

Programming Education Engineering Design 100

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Amplify PowerUP, our half-yearly global event to update our partner community, covered a lot of ground including key Partner Program announcements, Q2 earnings and partner contribution, market growth and momentum, Dynatrace platform capabilities, and the partner services offering the platform powers. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 214

DevOps Innovation Cloud Programming 214

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

Just copy and paste your code, make changes to the “green” version, and deploy “green” alongside “blue.” A “deployment” no longer means a “release” Using feature flags, “deploying” code no longer means “releasing code to end users.” After all, if you know that by default, no one gets the new code, your deployment is safe.

Infrastructure 205

Infrastructure Code DevOps Traffic 205

Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude. What do I measure?

Software Engineering 76

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 76

Percona

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Better macOS and ARM support This release contains a few improvements for platforms and operating systems that Percona does not officially support. PR-516 , contributed by Ivan Kruglov, makes pt - online - schema - change and other tools respect case-insensitive lookup on Windows and macOS: the default option for these operating systems.

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