Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

During the recent pandemic, organizations that lack processes and systems to scale and adapt to remote workforces and increased online shopping are feeling the pressure even more. Rethinking the process means digital transformation. Constantly reinventing wheels with a “Not Invented Here” bias.

Strategy 177

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 177

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. Here, I go about my programming tasks as usual but I try to remain aware of myself as I do it. Thinking, Remembering And Processing Information Better. Dave Oscar.

Programming 103

Programming Energy Code Processing 103

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If we train a new AI on its output, and repeat the process, what is the result? To answer these questions, I wrote a Python program that generated a long list of random numbers (1,000 elements) according to the Gaussian distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1. Model collapse presents AI development with a serious problem.

Programming 89

Programming Code Processing Artificial Intelligence 89

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. Think of Smartscape as the visualization of ‘Observability’ across Applications, Services, Processes, Hosts, and Datacenters. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

Government 225

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 225

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

In contrast, a process suffering a total failure can be quickly identified, restarted, or repaired by existing mechanisms, thus limiting the failure impact. 71% of failures are triggered by a specific environment condition, input, or faults in other processes. Developers can also explicitly annotate an operation as @vulnerable.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”. Unfortunately, some business owners don’t understand that buying a theme and implementing it isn’t the end of the process.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process. They had staffed 50 total people to the program team, while the company had staffed four QA leads (one for each contract team). This wasn't the answer that either the outsourcing vendor or the program office wanted.

Programming 59

Programming Testing Code Technology 59

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

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? But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. A change to such parameters requires the postmaster — the main process of the PostgreSQL — to restart. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

Database 104

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 104

Tasktop

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The code base has an open review process that every engineer can learn from with each change. We enjoy social hours such as team lunches, team exercises and happy hours. Would exercise and health be a good topic? We have a number of vacancies across the company in Business Development, Product Development and Sales.

Tuning 52

Tuning Engineering Programming Infrastructure 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Humans are biologically programmed to mistrust anything that deviates from the status quo. In a project organization, this flow is spread across teams, functions, tools, processes and even external parties like vendors. Carving out the relevant pieces for each product is an iterative process. Measuring the Flow.

Logistics 52

Logistics Metrics Architecture Software 52

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

I am so pleased to see a database systems paper addressing the concerns of the application developer! To the developer, a strongly consistent system behaves exactly like a single-threaded system running on a single node, so reasoning about the behaviour of the system is simple 1. VLDB’19. We’re not there yet!

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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

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

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

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. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

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!).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with strings of ones and zeroes. When you program in machine language, you are controlling the computer at its brainstem, the root of its existence. My 68k code was run on a MCU from a FreeScale IDE in Windows, so the process might as well have been indistinguishable from magic to me.

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. 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. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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

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.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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