All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.
The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 26, 2021
We then used simple thought exercises based on flipping coins to build intuition around false positives and related concepts such as statistical significance, p-values, and confidence intervals. In this post, we’ll do the same for false negatives and the related concept of statistical power.
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The Netflix TechBlog
OCTOBER 7, 2021
As another way to build intuition, consider the real reason that the internet and machine learning exist: to label if images show cats. Designing experiments so that the rate of false positives is minuscule necessarily increases the false negative rate, and vice versa. To build intuition, let’s run through a thought exercise.
The Morning Paper
JANUARY 23, 2020
Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ).
Dynatrace
MARCH 22, 2021
Applications are open to the internet and accessed by unknown entities, some of which may have malicious intent. Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design. For DevOps, automation streamlines design, testing, and deployment processes and increases the speed of application development.
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 12, 2019
The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.
Testsigma
JANUARY 6, 2022
From employees perspective, there are infrastructure issues that can impact the productivity for the day, they are: Unstable internet connection Video recording not working Screen sharing lags in voice and screen. The most common and annoying is internet connectivity issues. Take breaks and do exercise to keep the spirit high.
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