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Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

With all the technology changes through the past three years, with the world moving to K8s, the rise of GitOps, everything as code, event-driven automation, and many new open standards in the cloud-native space, it was time to update our workshop. Last week we kicked it off with a three-hour virtual hands-on workshop.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization

Improving Flow through Integration in Santa’s Workshop: A Fictional Case Study

Tasktop

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This weekend, I was watching the movie Elf and it got me thinking – how does Santa’s Workshop keep up with the demands of a booming population? I knew that if I wanted to figure out how to improve the flow of value through Santa’s Workshop I would need a visual. Santa’s Workshop Value Stream Architecture Diagram.

Architecture

Architecture Games Speed Software

Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

Latency

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainability is rightly becoming more widely discussed within the web development industry, just as it is an increasing concern in the wider public consciousness. Jump to online workshops ?.

Strategy

Strategy Development Energy Website

Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System , ICPE 2020 [ Video ]. The MongoDB Podcast, Ep. Both events would be on April 19, 2021.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Performance Testing Education

Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers. Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers. Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

Development

Development Games Education Programming

Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. 45 minutes) I recommend allocating a full-day for this workshop as a starting point. 1 hour) Candidate Context Modelling (min.

Design

Design Systems Strategy Processing

What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure? The mandate explains why this is the case: “A reasonable investor would [not] view a significant breach of a registrant’s data as immaterial merely because the data were housed on a third-party system ….

Best Practices

Best Practices Government C++ Education

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. “Coping with complexity” is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. Workshop context. Go overdrawn (i.e.,

C++

C++ Systems Software Software

Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

I am available to help you find and fix your site-speed issues through performance audits , training and workshops , consultancy , and more. I’m available for hire to help you out with workshops , consultancy , advice , and development. You should get in touch.

Engineering

Engineering Google Speed Mobile

Kubernetes and containers for enterprise developers

O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

O’Reilly Media Podcast: JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud, on problem solving with containers and Kubernetes, and how developers can get started. Whether it’s dev, staging, testing, or production, developers need assurance that the code they deploy to one environment is going to work in another. Image courtesy of IBM.

Development

Development Media Google Network

Path to NoOps part 1: How modern AIOps brings NoOps within reach

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The need for developers and innovation is now even greater. NoOps is a concept in software development that seeks to automate processes and eliminate the need for an extensive IT operations team. But it might also result in the entire software development process falling apart. Evolution of NoOps.

DevOps

DevOps Big Data Cloud Innovation

Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There are a lot of complex and often conflicting rules that constitute ‘good’ <head> tags, and cross-referencing everything can soon grow unwieldy, so to make my life easier, I developed ct.css — a quick and dirty way of seeing inside of your <head> ”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

Performance

Performance Website Engineering Design

Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. But it would be essential to up the tempo of development velocity to exploit the opportunity. They are also a vital step toward defining the Kickstarter workshop.

Architecture

Architecture Innovation Airlines Technology

Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In March, we started working on a new series of articles dedicated to tools and resources that can help you as a designer or developer get better at your work. New Online Workshops on Smashing. Here’s a brief overview of the workshops that we have planned for the **next months**: Dates. Architecting Design Systems.

Mobile

Mobile Design Cache Code

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. As a result, IT teams can automate and manage processes across on-premises and cloud-based systems, or between multiple cloud services to prevent vendor lock-in.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps

Using HSL Colors In CSS

Smashing Magazine

JULY 5, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Use Cases For HSL Colors.

Design

Design Testing Code Systems

The Future Of Frontend Build Tools

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Frontend build tooling is crucial to the workflow of the modern frontend developer for a host of reasons classified under improved developer and user experiences. With our sights set on improving the performance of frontend tooling, a new generation of build tools is being developed. Jump to online workshops ?.

Code

Code Processing Cache Development

Plan, execute, and modernize a cloud migration strategy with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

But, as resources move off premises, IT teams often lack visibility into system performance and security issues. Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops. Therefore, customers can see system performance before and after the migration. Mobilize and plan.

Strategy

Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Java

Simplifying Form Styles With `accent-color`

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I love it when new CSS properties arrive that make our daily lives as developers simpler and enable us to remove a whole lot of redundant code. Instead, many web developers resort to a well-known hack, which involves visually (but accessibly) hiding the input itself, then styling a pseudo-element on the label.

Media

Media Design Code Development

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Sarah Oke Okolo 2023-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 2023-04-21T11:15:35+00:00 Web Workers are a powerful feature of modern web development and were introduced as part of the HTML5 specification in 2009.

Efficiency

Efficiency Code Strategy Network

Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When front-end developers hear “pseudo-elements”, we think of ::before and ::after more often than not, as we use them in various ways to add decorations to our elements. Interestingly, after years of web development, I never found myself using ::first-line , but it’s pretty neat and responds well to window resizing! Check it out.

Internet

Internet Internet Google Design

Bounded Context Canvas V2: Simplifications and Additions

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

Design

Design Strategy Innovation Processing

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Bloom Filters

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

From Dynamo and Postgress, to HBase and Bitcoin, Bloom Filters are used in almost all modern distributed systems. This weekend I will be reading the original paper by Bloom from 1970, and another more recent survey paper that describes several variants and applications that have been developed over the years. Sanders, P.; Singler, J.,

Cache

Cache Efficiency Code Testing

How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This premise, known as graceful degradation allows a system to continue working when parts of it are dysfunctional — much like an electric bike becomes a regular bike when its battery dies. Often system failures are chalked up as “corner cases” — things that rarely happen, however, the web has many corners.

Network

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring

Did Your Organization Wake Up as a Software Company? You Need Value Stream Management (VSM)(VSM)

Tasktop

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Writing in a recent blog , Condo lays out the challenge that faces modern enterprises: “ Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders focusing on velocity and cadence are finding there’s more to software delivery than going fast. Register for a Value Stream Management Workshop.

Software

Software Software Healthcare Metrics

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software

Oops…We Did It Again: Tasktop Named a Leader by GigaOm in Value Stream Management

Tasktop

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Acknowledging the myriad challenges posed by existing development processes and disconnected toolchains in scaling software innovation, the GigaOm Radar for Value Stream Management report provides further guidance on the necessary capabilities to successfully adopt this critical practice required to be successful in the Age of Software. .

Healthcare

Healthcare Innovation Metrics Best Practices

Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Large preview ).

Website

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools

What’s New in October?

Tasktop

OCTOBER 18, 2022

is a cloud-based solution for managing product development and aligning teams around a strategic roadmap. With Aha, product managers can link work to strategic goals and initiatives, create visual roadmaps, and manage agile development. . Learn from the experts: Value Stream Management Workshops. If your organization uses Aha!,

Best Practices

Best Practices Speed Metrics Cloud

There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As for absolute units, we will dive in and see how they are affected by other things, such as the screen and the device’s operating system. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

Operating System

Operating System Mobile Testing Systems

Useful React APIs For Building Flexible Components With TypeScript

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll go over a few useful React APIs that are not as commonly known but extremely useful for web developers. Most developers may never have heard of cloneElement or ever used it. So our developer would make our component like so. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?.

Design

Design Code C++ Development

Creating An Interactive Gantt Chart Component With Vanilla JavaScript

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

At first glance, developing your own chart component seems quite complicated. Therefore, in this article, I will develop the foundation for a Gantt chart component whose appearance and functionality you can customize for any use case. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump!

Code

Code Servers Development Availability

Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

Lambda

Lambda Latency Cache C++

Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021. Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021. That’s why we break our online Smashing workshops down into 2.5h-sessions Our online workshops take place live and span multiple days across weeks. Jump to all workshops ?. Iris Lješnjanin. 2021-11-22T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T20:34:08+00:00.

Design

Design Programming Network Systems

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

Cache

Cache Performance Servers Social Media

A Compass to Guide Your Project to Product Journey

Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Edwards Deming, to improve the system you need to get outside the system. The problem facing many organizations today is to determine where they need to invest to improve the system in terms of IT flow and the associated business results. Register for a Value Stream Management Workshop. To paraphrase W.

Energy

Energy Metrics Government Software

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future. As a developer, these are far more intuitive when it comes to adjusting color values. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. Michelle Barker.

Energy

Energy Design Website Hardware

DORA Metrics and Flow Metrics: Use the Whole Ruler, Not Just Two Inches

Tasktop

JULY 1, 2021

DORA metrics are a key set of acceleration metrics for software delivery, helping you to streamline and automate activities from development to deployment: Deployment Frequency —How often an organization successfully releases to production. They get us off the ground and are valuable for measuring and optimizing development to release.

Metrics

Metrics DevOps Efficiency Software

Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022

Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Custom properties brought significant improvements to CSS by allowing developers to create reusable values in their stylesheet without the need for CSS preprocessor like SASS. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A.

Media

Media Tuning Design Website

A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. Movidius, which was acquired by Intel in 2016, develops its VPU-series named Myriad which makes hardware optimization for computer vision tasks. The new GV100 packs 7.4 TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

Hardware

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google

Cultural breakthrough: 5 change management tips to support your digital transformation

Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apply systems thinking to scale learnings across the organization. The role of systems thinking. This is where systems thinking comes in: taking the learnings and experiments from proof of concepts and smaller team experiments, and applying the lens of people, processes and structures to operationalize and scale the changes.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Energy Processing

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase. Once the workshop was over, we got to work. Identifying The Bottlenecks. So what’s then?

Performance

Performance Cache Mobile Network

Creating A Custom Range Input That Looks Consistent Across All Browsers

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. The crux of this project was to create a tool that makes this process simpler for developers.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Processing Design

Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

Improving Flow through Integration in Santa’s Workshop: A Fictional Case Study

Trending Sources

Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Performance Testing at MongoDB

Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers

Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity

Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

Kubernetes and containers for enterprise developers

Path to NoOps part 1: How modern AIOps brings NoOps within reach

Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Using HSL Colors In CSS

The Future Of Frontend Build Tools

Plan, execute, and modernize a cloud migration strategy with Dynatrace

Simplifying Form Styles With `accent-color`

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web

Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements

Bounded Context Canvas V2: Simplifications and Additions

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Bloom Filters

How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

Did Your Organization Wake Up as a Software Company? You Need Value Stream Management (VSM)(VSM)

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Oops…We Did It Again: Tasktop Named a Leader by GigaOm in Value Stream Management

Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study)

What’s New in October?

There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit

Useful React APIs For Building Flexible Components With TypeScript

Creating An Interactive Gantt Chart Component With Vanilla JavaScript

Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

A Compass to Guide Your Project to Product Journey

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors

DORA Metrics and Flow Metrics: Use the Whole Ruler, Not Just Two Inches

Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022

A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

Cultural breakthrough: 5 change management tips to support your digital transformation

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Creating A Custom Range Input That Looks Consistent Across All Browsers

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