ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. Development is fast and straightforward using standard object-oriented techniques, and the test/debug cycle is kept short by making use of a mock environment running on the developer’s workstation. Debugging with a Mock Environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

Design 91

Design Media Development Energy 91

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. What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework? Reliability.

Azure 184

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. Think of Smartscape as the visualization of ‘Observability’ across Applications, Services, Processes, Hosts, and Datacenters. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

Government 222

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 222

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. It was a Node.js Java…Script? ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 It simultaneously shows how effective the requirements of that process have been in accelerating catch-up implementations. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew? " and "what do developers think?"

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Programming 102

Programming Energy Code Processing 102

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

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. What is it that makes Agile management different from traditional management?

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

In contrast, a process suffering a total failure can be quickly identified, restarted, or repaired by existing mechanisms, thus limiting the failure impact. 71% of failures are triggered by a specific environment condition, input, or faults in other processes. Developers can also explicitly annotate an operation as @vulnerable.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. A change to such parameters requires the postmaster — the main process of the PostgreSQL — to restart. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

Database 105

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 105

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”. Unfortunately, some business owners don’t understand that buying a theme and implementing it isn’t the end of the process.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This has led us to develop a contrarian view regarding another topic that is running rampant in future of work discussions. If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Once we begin to exercise, the muscles grow again. Cultivating capabilities. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I Also like to spend a little bit of time stretching and doing light exercises, reading or playing with my daughter before I dive into some work. I comb through our amazing User Guide (thanks to the Rebbeca Dobbin from the Product Development team!) My morning is not complete without my daily walk/jog for about half an hour.

Software 52

Software Software Software Engineering Infrastructure 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

First and foremost, inversion helps product managers identify potential risks and challenges early in the product development process. " By examining potential pain points and designing with empathy, you can create a product that addresses user needs and provides a seamless experience.

Education 52

Education Strategy Innovation Virtualization 52

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. Business benefits include: Improved developer and operational productivity.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

I am so pleased to see a database systems paper addressing the concerns of the application developer! To the developer, a strongly consistent system behaves exactly like a single-threaded system running on a single node, so reasoning about the behaviour of the system is simple 1. VLDB’19. We’re not there yet!

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. 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.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Exercise/outdoors. Design and development. 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.

Games 126

Games Availability Software Software 126

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

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

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

Alex Russell

JUNE 12, 2018

The web standards process fails us too often. ” muttered the thoughtful developer (just before filing an issue at crbug.com ). The community of web developers and browser vendors share this norm. Developers benefit when interop extends the reach of their products and services. Standards Theory.

Design 43

Design Engineering Government Processing 43

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. The eagle-eyed reader will have noticed another feature of this work in that quotation: the aim is to create a global address space that spans nodes and processes.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

That "Agile pilot" was a deliberate investment in the formation of behaviors designed to yield local (that is, team-level) optimization. Sustained, intense concentration on collaboration among consumers, designers, builders, testers and managers resulted in more experiments, more builds, more deployments, and more frequent feedback.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first.

Design 145

Design Transportation Code Systems 145

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards. On error rates.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

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

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

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. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website. As Chris likes to say, a front-end developer is aware.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136