Wed.Aug 24, 2022

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. This can go either way: under- or overestimating the efficacy of those changes. Naturally, neither is great. Problems When Measuring Performance.

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Reinforcement Learning for Budget Constrained Recommendations

The Netflix TechBlog

by Ehtsham Elahi with James McInerney , Nathan Kallus , Dario Garcia Garcia and Justin Basilico Introduction This writeup is about using reinforcement learning to construct an optimal list of recommendations when the user has a finite time budget to make a decision from the list of recommendations. Working within the time budget introduces an extra resource constraint for the recommender system.

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Automate prioritization of quality improvements with Dynatrace SLO violation prediction and problem analysis

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Does either of the following situations sound familiar to you? You have plans to enjoy an upcoming vacation, but production problems in your area of responsibility prevent you from taking time away. Or, you’ve been asked to ensure the customer experience of a production system that you have no familiarity with—you’re now responsible for a system for which you don’t know the structure of the underlying services.

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