O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

IT modernization improves public health services at state human services agencies For many organizations, the pandemic was a crash course in IT modernization as agencies scrambled to meet the community’s needs as details unfolded. Once created, teams can customize these automated operations to specific environments or scenarios as necessary.

Government 199

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 199

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As we continue to evolve into an edge economy, it’s imperative that enterprise teams are evaluating and investing in solutions designed for innovation to proactively prepare for the next evolution. Observability is inherent to any cloud strategy. This creates a billing process that is simplified and straightforward.

Azure 169

Azure Technology Technology Cloud 169

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For organizations managing a hybrid cloud infrastructure , HCI has become a go-to strategy. HCI, meanwhile, is a software-defined framework that virtualizes and combines compute, network, storage, and server resources into a unified platform designed for simplicity and scalability. How does hyperconverged infrastructure work?

Infrastructure 197

Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 197

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

While AWS EBS snapshots were mentioned the most, the likes of persistent disk snapshots on GCP, Azure-managed disk snapshots, or local storage, as well as k8s snapshot capabilities, were also playing a crucial part in the backup strategies. We want to ensure that our Community feels that this design we delivered fits their use cases.

Availability 75

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 75

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Copies image layer into Docker image during build process. Dynatrace news. Kubernetes can be a confounding platform for system architects.

Government 163

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 163

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. Used judiciously, EventStorming gives us the ability to uncover enough information about our domain and our business that we can use it to design our microservices, bounded contexts, and even our teams.

Design 59

Design IoT Energy Software 59

Tech News Gather

JUNE 1, 2023

Of course, as a developer, you have to prefer the best framework to develop apps faster. Faster Development Time With the help of no-code development, the time for app design would be doubled. Of course, the developers have to notice the performance rate and development time. They are mainly focusing on nontechnical outcomes.

Code 52

Code Development Innovation Efficiency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

While working on my PhD in political science, I realized my curiosity was always more piqued by methodological coursework, which led me to take as many stats/data science courses as I could. Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices.

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

At any given moment, there are three types of memory processing at work in your brain: Sensory memory Short-term memory Working memory (There's also long-term memory, but it doesn't really come into play here.) Some sensory memory does stick, of course. If we could, we'd probably go insane or accidentally walk in front of a bus.)

Speed 133

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

Design 40

Design Software Architecture Architecture Software 40

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Backup types and strategies It all begins with choosing a strategy, and that depends on factors such as the use and importance of data to your business, your recovery time objectives (RTO), and your budget. Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

of respondents have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy. A recent report by RightScale found that 69% of businesses have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy by combining both public clouds and private clouds. of PostgreSQL deployments were leveraging a multi-cloud strategy. were in the process of migrating to PostgreSQL and the last 14.1%

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2022

I’ll assume you’re using an environment designed to support batch mode on row store either directly, e.g., using SQL Server 2019 Enterprise edition like mine, or indirectly, by creating a dummy columnstore index on the table. So, the optimizer chose the sort + parallel batch mode strategy for both. seconds with 10M rows.

C++ 136

C++ Strategy Testing Servers 136

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. One of the joys of this paper is that you don’t just get to see the final design, you also get insight into the forces and trade-offs that led to it.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2020

Your employees are not in your central offices, your VPNs and infrastructure are stressed, and your processes may or may not be up to the task of supporting a distributed remote workforce. Traditional web analytics only provides so much and does not tie into your backend processes and services. Manage Your Design.

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Innovation Cloud Metrics 176

Particular Software

JULY 18, 2022

So you don’t just get the next message waiting to be processed. While Kafka can deal with high traffic volumes, the right partition strategy is a key factor and will have a major impact on the scalability and elasticity of the whole system. But what happens if something fails while processing an event in Kafka?

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Processing Systems 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The emergence of DevOps and continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines has fundamentally changed the nature of software design, development, and deployment. By making it easier and faster to set up and manage Kubernetes, OpenShift enhances developer productivity by simplifying CI/CD processes.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

O ne of the principles behind the design of Kubernetes is to always look at optimiz ing the utilization of compute resources by the workload. Mentioned above, CPU is a compressible resource ; you can always allocate fewer or shorter CPU time slices to a process. But of course, there are many others. .

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 196

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

The implication here is that we’ve now rendered any font-loading strategies completely ineffective: font-display can’t work if there are no fonts; the Font Loading API is useless if there are no fonts. not replacement —the current method would remain fully functional and valid) non-blocking loading strategy. The Solution.

Latency 203

Latency Cache Strategy Media 203

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

activities escalate following an unexpected event in a monitored process. function distributions of cognitive processes during anomaly response. if anomalies are recognised during the course of monitoring, those observation are fed back into response planning. One of these strategies is to use heuristics. Patterson et al.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. I’ll make a note in my pad to investigate font-loading strategies on this page (font-based issues are, in my experience, more common than image-based one, though I won’t rule it out completely).

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For example, are we talking about a manual process performed by one employee or one thousand employees? A common scenario when mapping out operational business processes is to uncover manual processes that involve spreadsheets, printing out paper, or hacking tools like email inboxes to function as job queues.

Design 52

Design Processing Systems Strategy 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dynatrace Davis, our radically different AI causation engine, automatically processes billions of dependencies to identify the root causes with unmatched precision. One of the most important improvements in the new problem feed is the switch from a tile-based design to a table-based view.

DevOps 152

DevOps Strategy Infrastructure Cloud 152

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

Strategy 132

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. Requirements.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

is astonishingly dense with delayed features, inadvertantly emphasising just how far behind WebKit has remained for many years and how effective the Blink Launch Process has been in allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple. No, this was a change in strategy. Regardless, Safari 16.4

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Start the replica server’s replication process. If the primary server experiences a failure, the entire replication process could be disrupted. What is MySQL Replication?

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. It is quite an interesting blog that compares archery with testing and provides clarity about the testing process.

Software 52

Software Software Java Testing 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. The Not-so-good In the arduous process of breaking a monolith, you might get a sharp shard or two flung at you. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107