Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. These insights are critical to ensuring proactive application monitoring and optimal system performance. Could you tell me how this might help me understand if a system was compromised?”

Government 222

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 222

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Can an AI system be creative and, if so, what would that creativity look like? I’m skeptical about AI creativity, though recently I hypothesized that an AI system optimized for “hallucinations” might be the start of “artificial creativity.” We don’t know; a number of cases are in the legal system now. So, what is creativity?

Social Media 85

Social Media Innovation Media Tuning 85

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service that people love and can enjoy anytime, anywhere. Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of a system to function under stated conditions for a period of time. Our primary focus is ensuring Netflix stays up.

Engineering 104

Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 104

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.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency . Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Data Points to More Investment in QA, Not Development.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency . Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Data Points to More Investment in QA, Not Development.

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer. The system is more robust. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

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

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

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. It didn't matter whether you were competent, Sun certified you as a Java developer, Scrum Alliance a Scrum Master, PMI a Project Manager, any employer a Six Sigma blackbelt. It's not a hotbed of innovation.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 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. 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).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Indeterminate counterparty risk in a highly interconnected financial system means there’s a chance capital markets could get blindsided yet again, so hedge funds are front and centre of the regulatory debate. Because capital is globally mobile, markets must innovate to remain competitive.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Innovation Mobile Systems 40

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. It is also an indicator of how effectively IT drives innovation.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

He'd never run a business before, but the parent company expected that operations would sort themselves out, leaving the DM to develop a sales and client services team and concentrate on revenue. Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies". Knowledge was fragmented and splintered.

Code 40

Code Processing Innovation Development 40

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. Auditors – a powerful asset to help you innovate . Photo credit: @DOES_USA. Tasktop Viz in action.

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. 1 Teal, Thomas. "

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 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.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. Lies was an Ocean’s Eleven-esque story with a blistering pace that (in my opinion) cared less about developing the characters than it did about having fun.

BioTech 45

BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

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? — ?

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214