Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. What is synthetic monitoring?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. Amid so much change, teams can no longer rely on time-consuming, manual approaches for building, testing, operating, and upgrading software.

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 225

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. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. It was a Node.js Java…Script?

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. Developers are often strongly discouraged from holding a database connection while other operations take place.

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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

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew?

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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. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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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

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

Red-team exercises can uncover weaknesses in the system while it’s still under development. Why not take the extra time to test for problems? By assessing the risks and proactively developing mitigation strategies, you can reduce the chances that attackers will convince your chatbot to give them bragging rights.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

assert The C-style assert is a macro that is evaluated at execution time (hopefully enabled at least during your unit testing! A failed assertion means that we checked and found the tested variables to be in an unexpected state, which means at least that part of the program’s state is corrupt. see question 4) if NDEBUG is not set.

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 52

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. If you change something and re-run the same test the difference in the results can be attributed to the changes you made.

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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. Testing and grading their solutions is another! Although we added tests to catch specific issues as we learned of them, we found it difficult to keep up with the diversity of possible student errors.

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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

Decades of poor architecture guidelines and lax developer discipline resulted in the commercial-off-the-shelf components of an ERP becoming inseparable from the custom code built around it. A basic premise is that there are alternatives to traditional "lift and shift" strategies by retiring legacy assets in a piecemeal fashion.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. The new version of the application is deployed in the green environment and tested for functionality and performance. Both use the same database back-end and app configuration.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. For example, ghost code - code that is not commented out but will conditionally never be executed - is likely to be confused for real code in a reverse-engineering exercise.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

The most common programming task that a typical software developer has to deal with is: receiving input, transforming it, and producing output. This is mixing concerns and leads to code that becomes strongly coupled, monolithic, hard to write, hard to read, hard to evolve, hard to test, and hard to reuse. The need for flow control.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2011

There are a lot of things that go into this, too much to cover in this blog post, so we'll focus on three: investment flow, hedging strategies, and activist investing. Agile inception gives us a simple litmus test to apply to any candidate investment, and it doesn’t cost a lot to apply it. It’s simply in the investment portfolio.

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Government Strategy Technology Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

These overlaps and key themes will serve as a jumping-off point for developing your own principles, relevant to your team, organization, and industry. If there is strong disagreement between one or more principles that some feel should be combined while others feel should be separate, then run a dot-voting prioritization exercise.

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Code Design Education Government 137

Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Over the past months, a number of Fortune 100 customers have been testing Tasktop’s new product, Tasktop Viz , to implement the Flow Framework. He had a strategy. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers. That would be very expensive now,” smiled Dapeng Liu, Senior VP, Development.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first. However, it’s a good idea to test if an active “Validate” button would work worse. Example: Swedish public transportation website.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance written by Adrian Bece. She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. Eva on Twitter. Eva’s personal site. Weekly Update. Eva: Yeah, absolutely.

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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. in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database.

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