Uber Engineering

JUNE 28, 2018

Computing frameworks like Apache Spark have been widely adopted to build large-scale data applications. For Uber, data is at the heart of strategic decision-making and product development. To help us better leverage this data, we manage massive deployments of Spark … The post JVM Profiler: An Open Source Tool for Tracing Distributed JVM Applications at Scale appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Open Source 94

Open Source Engineering Development Architecture 94

Percona Community

JUNE 28, 2018

MariaDB 10.3 is now generally available (10.3.7 was released GA on 2018-05-25). The article What’s New in MariaDB Server 10.3 by the MariaDB Corporation lists three key improvements in 10.3: temporal data processing, Oracle compatibility features, and purpose-built storage engines. Even if I am excited about MyRocks and curious on Spider, I am also very interested in less flashy but still very important changes that make running the database in production easier.

Storage 52

Storage Database Servers Engineering 52

Website Optimization

JUNE 28, 2018

In our continuing series on PPC optimization this time we look at optimizing text ad performance by tweaking ad titles. Technically called the "Business Name" field, we're calling it the ad title for brevity. By isolating higher performing ad text you can vary different parts of similar ads to see which variant performs better. This article shows that a small change to the ad title can make a big change in ad performance.

Performance 45

Performance 45

The Agile Manager

JUNE 28, 2018

It is easy to understand how a small organization of autonomous teams can function. When there are only a few teams, there is a small community, and it is simple for people to communicate with one another in both formal and informal ways. It is not difficult to see how a large organization of largely independent teams can scale. For nearly 60 years, Gore-Tex has shown that devolved authority can work just fine at scale.

Innovation 40

Innovation Network Strategy Cloud 40