Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Yet as software environments become more complex, there are more ways than ever for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities, even in the application development and delivery pipeline. One reason for this failure is traditional application security tools slow developers down. Security happens during, not after development.

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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. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency.

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. But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior. Showing a list of key processes.

Government 222

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 222

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. So DSLabs also uses model checking. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

From failure injection testing to regularly exercising our region evacuation abilities, Netflix engineers invest a lot in ensuring the services that comprise Netflix are robust and reliable. This process includes a write-up of what happened, what mitigations took place, and what follow-up work was discussed.

Engineering 104

Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 104

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

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

First and foremost, inversion helps product managers identify potential risks and challenges early in the product development process. By understanding what you don't want, you can work backward to identify the root causes and develop strategies to address them effectively.

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

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. Adjusting variables like innodb_thread_concurrency can help with this in a pinch, but when you get to this point, you really need to look at query efficiency and horizontal scaling strategies.

Traffic 90

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 90

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

They were in consultants in logistics, and they were lamenting how one of their clients was struggling in the wake of a business process change that another firm - a tech consultancy - had agitated for their mutual client to adopt. Distribution is about efficiency, because efficiency translates into price.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained budgets — that a VSM tool will simply expose what is already known: “Our processes, workflows and tools are a mess. After we’ve cleaned up our act and matured our processes, we’ll finally be ready for a VSM tool.” .

Storage 52

Storage Speed C++ DevOps 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

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

To catch such bugs before they create havoc in production, it is important to include regression testing in the software testing process being followed by an organization. Regression checks are vital from the continuous application development perspective wherein the new releases & fixes keep coming in as the application matures.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

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.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The immersive nature in which these new muscle memories were developed came at a cost. No one seems to remember that your business partner all but demanded that you to pull the plug on the entire exercise just a few weeks in. It's just a different process from what we follow today, right? With success comes selective amnesia.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company. We staffed poorly, plain and simple.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. What Is An "App Store" Technically? AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. If you're wed to any aspect of your current organization, if you think process will make your business better, or if you're concerned about making mistakes or losing staff, you're really no more ambitious than being less bad.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Capitalizing development of IT assets is an exercise in funding salaries and contractor costs out of CapEx budgets.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” according to a statement signed by more than 350 business and technical leaders, including the developers of today’s most important AI platforms. Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. We satisfice.”

Government 98

Government Best Practices Energy Efficiency 98

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. She should be encouraged to exercise empathy, and to leave others feeling positive and motivated to work harder, rather than demotivated. . - Bob makes it difficult to hire other good staff (word gets around). -

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. It acts as a collaboration tool to balance the need for business correctness, user experience, and technical efficiency. The developers decide that a single 10 minute Slot is their Aggregate boundary. just see incompetent developers waffling about tech.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

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. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like? Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

They go on to report that 70% of the cases of these 7 chronic illnesses are preventable through lifestyle change: diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes and what not. So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Engineers have built cost-efficient applications on top of Mantis to quickly identify issues, trigger alerts, and apply remediations to minimize or completely avoid downtime to the Netflix service. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. every second counts during an outage.

Open Source 148

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 148

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Engineers have built cost-efficient applications on top of Mantis to quickly identify issues, trigger alerts, and apply remediations to minimize or completely avoid downtime to the Netflix service. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. every second counts during an outage.

Open Source 101

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 101

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Engineers have built cost-efficient applications on top of Mantis to quickly identify issues, trigger alerts, and apply remediations to minimize or completely avoid downtime to the Netflix service. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. every second counts during an outage.

Open Source 100

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 100