Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Recently, 53 Dynatracers convened in a Zoom room for 5 action-packed hours to take on our first AWS GameDay challenge, an event we participated in to help our developers accelerate their AWS certification path. What is the value of AWS training and certification? Then this one’s for you. Specialty AWS certifications.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

As a company that’s ethos is based on a points-based system for health, by doing exercise and being rewarded with vouchers such as cinema tickets, the pandemic made both impossible tasks to do. Vitality had to respond quickly to this change by signing up new partners and developing new ways of incorporating rewards.

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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.

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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 But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. These insights are critical to ensuring proactive application monitoring and optimal system performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of a system to function under stated conditions for a period of time. Put simply, reliability means a system should work and continue working. assisting the responding service owners with understanding what systems are contributing to the incident Liaison?—?communicating

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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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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. When you saturate disk IOPS, your system is going to run slow.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

Additional or more comprehensive capabilities that come standard with a new COTS product; lower labor intensity and less dependency on costly knowledge workers required to sustain legacy assets; and reducing systemic fragility (e.g., production downtime) are all very real economic benefits that have P&L impact.

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C++ Efficiency Systems Technology 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy.

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Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

With the amount of data flow across multiple modules in applications being made today, a feature addition or a fix can cause unexpected issues in the normal system operations. Regression checks are vital from the continuous application development perspective wherein the new releases & fixes keep coming in as the application matures.

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Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 25, 2021

On a humorous note, O(N) remains O(N) no matter how hard we try to make it efficient: MyAssert( std::is_sorted( std::execution::par, begin(s), end(s) ) ); // still O(N) arbitrarily expensive, but good try! If you develop your own assertion system for in-house use, support enabling/disabling at least these kinds of assertions independently. [1]

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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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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Design Systems Engineering Entertainment 230

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. The first and most obvious is that they are long on how to start, but short on how to finish.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. All Things Distributed.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Data available to SDK developers make fears about web privacy look quaint. AAA gaming, CAD).

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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

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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. Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations.

Innovation 40

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons.

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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.”

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Government Best Practices Energy Efficiency 98

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. and the IT context (how do all these systems actually work together?) They know not only which bit to twiddle, but why.

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Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

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. To make ML applications production-ready from the beginning, developers must adhere to the same set of standards as all other production-grade software.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. FMAs/cycle. .

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Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sometimes, this can be achieved with relatively minimal disruption, like when the products are highly distinct and can be developed fully in-parallel. The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. This is often not the case, however. Uber started life as a ride-hailing product.

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Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

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

The Agile Manager

JUNE 26, 2010

Thinking about "returns" is also more appropriate than "value" for capital deployment decisions, which is what software development really is. Why is software development a "deployment of capital"? When people choose to spend on software development, they're investing in the business itself. Effort does not equal results.

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Software Software Technology Technology 40

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. It acts as a collaboration tool to balance the need for business correctness, user experience, and technical efficiency. just see incompetent developers waffling about tech.

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Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

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. What problem are we solving? Mount ranges of objects? — ?

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. every second counts during an outage. Metrics and logs require that you to know what you want to answer ahead of time.

Open Source 148

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 148

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. every second counts during an outage. Metrics and logs require that you to know what you want to answer ahead of time.

Open Source 101

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 101

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. every second counts during an outage. Metrics and logs require that you to know what you want to answer ahead of time.

Open Source 100

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 100