The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). NSDI’20.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Meet Jason Grodan, a Software Training Specialist at Tasktop! 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. My role at Tasktop is a ‘Software Training Specialist’. How do you start your day before work. years and I love it.

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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.

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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. Design applications to recover from errors gracefully.

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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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Another challenge comes from the delays created by the hand-offs between development teams and the traditionally organizational function of a Performance Center of Excellence (COE). As a counterpoint to the COE challenges, we also observe some challenges within independent Agile development teams.

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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.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s dynamic landscape of education app development as a technology has emerged as a transformative force, propelling the realm of learning forward. Through this app idea, one can prioritize the well-being of students with an app designed to support their mental health and foster a sense of mindfulness.

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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? If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable? But even these two cases aren’t as different as they first appear.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Faster and higher-quality software releases. Business benefits include: Improved developer and operational productivity. Dynatrace news. Application monitoring.

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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. An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need. This manager is the textbook definition of “overhead.”

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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. One of my favorite features that is often missing in many appointment form software is the option to customize the order of the form.

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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.

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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. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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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. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

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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. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

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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. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course).

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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.

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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. They create a good starting point to talk about a full website or individual page or section from a performance and design perspective.

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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.

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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.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and any opinions are specific to the context of HammerDB as an independent personal project and are not related to Intel in any way. Scalability. can you be sure that it scales?

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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.

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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? -

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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.

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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!).

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

I need calories after I run, a breakfast bar will do, I don't need a designer breakfast bar. While I was writing chapter 3 of my book, Activist Investing in Strategic Software , I spent time researching the rise of centralized procurement departments in the 1990s. Selling became a race to the bottom in pricing.

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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. For example, we were designing how to capture a crash dump.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. Blue/green deployment for releasing software faster, safer. This allows the developer on-call to take swift action and fix the problem. Dynatrace news.

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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. As Chris likes to say, a front-end developer is aware. At the beginning of my development, I thought I might need certain assets or frameworks.

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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.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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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. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. All ML projects are software projects. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. And in Salesforce we saw pipeline improving, software going out every 90 days instead of years. I was like, “Wow!

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