Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Dynatrace can efficiently rote the problem to the teams that can solve it without disturbing anyone else. Create a new VM for this exercise and install a Dynatrace OneAgent. Any other key/value information you consider important. Demo: Add the human factor using the Dynatrace events API. Tag your host with demo: cpu_stress.

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DevOps C++ Serverless Processing 182

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. In addition, 45% of them have gone on to implement efficiencies in their roles, and 43% reported they were able to do their job more quickly after getting certified.

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AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 210

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2024

As a learning exercise, it is fantastic. When setting out to do something different, map out the learning agenda that will put you in the position of “freely exercising authority”. Those tests have limited information value: they either work or they do not work. Without a lot of post-test study, we don’t necessarily know why.

FinTech 40

FinTech Education Testing Website 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints. Some of this increased latency was mitigated by better observability and more efficient batching of requests.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

From failure injection testing to regularly exercising our region evacuation abilities, Netflix engineers invest a lot in ensuring the services that comprise Netflix are robust and reliable. Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of a system to function under stated conditions for a period of time.

Engineering 104

Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 104

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Continuous improvement of services is the most efficient process for all teams that are looking to improve the performance of their applications by considering all layers of their architecture. Similar to an athlete, the objective here is to have teams always push the limits to become faster and stronger.

Metrics 167

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 167

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

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. People who have exercised innate capabilities and acquired developed capabilities will be much better positioned to acquire whatever skills they need to be successful. We all have muscles as humans.

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Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

The application preserves detailed records of the user’s expenditures, provides assistance in the maintenance of the user’s budget, and gives the user the ability to exercise control over their own money and the flow of that money. This software is the most appealing option among those focused on finances.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Hardware 52

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

A value-generative investment is a roll of the dice that, say, a new market opportunity can be developed or a cost efficiency can be made where none was possible before. A value-generative investment is an exercise in deploying risk capital through IT in the pursuit of extraordinary benefit that yields competitive advantage.

C++ 52

C++ Efficiency Systems Technology 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

The distribution operation was built on efficiencies: fill delivery trucks to a minimum of 80% capacity and deliver products to customers on routes optimized for time and energy consumption. Distribution is about efficiency, because efficiency translates into price. Re-learning the fundamentals is an expensive proposition.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Of course we can always throw more disk at a table, but I wanted to see if we could scale this more efficiently than the current linear trend. At the time it had 3.75 billion rows, presented on 143 million pages, and occupying ~1.14TB. Sounds like a great job for compression, right?

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 25, 2021

On a humorous note, O(N) remains O(N) no matter how hard we try to make it efficient: MyAssert( std::is_sorted( std::execution::par, begin(s), end(s) ) ); // still O(N) arbitrarily expensive, but good try! What does the answer to Question 1 imply for assertion checking?

C++ 45

C++ Programming Cache Testing 45

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

This exercise helps uncover blind spots and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the situation. By considering the potential opportunity costs associated with different choices, you can prioritize effectively and allocate resources efficiently. Then, flip them around and examine the opposite viewpoint.

Education 52

Education Strategy Innovation Virtualization 52

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It’s the gym membership that forces you to exercise. There is just the hard transformation work that needs to be delegated to the product value streams themselves: Start by baselining: VSM tools measure the value streams’ current performance in terms of time-to-market, velocity and efficiency. . Next, examine your bottlenecks.

Storage 52

Storage Speed C++ DevOps 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. This SLO highlights the importance of a smooth and efficient checkout experience. Thus, an ApDex score of 0.85

Latency 177

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 177

SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise. This has to do with the fact that currently, SQL Server doesn't support an efficient combination of parallel order-preserving index operation prior to a parallel batch mode Window Aggregate operator.

Code 116

Code Servers Performance Azure 116

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. This SLO example highlights the importance of a smooth and efficient checkout experience. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Some best practices to follow for efficient regression testing. Automating regression suites – As grooming, the regression suite is an ongoing exercise which starts at the application start-up and continues henceforth, the suite may extend to thousands of test cases to have better test coverage.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

As long as credit rating agencies play ball, lenders will continue to lend at investment-grade interest rates and borrowers will have time to shore up cash flows through disposals, cuts, and efficiency drives. That lending can go on for a very long time.

Strategy 40

Strategy FinTech Efficiency Technology 40

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

In fact, according to a Forrester Consulting report , implementing an AIOps approach that provides proactive visibility helped companies improve operational efficiency and reduce false-positive alerts by 95%. For example: Greater IT staff efficiency. million per year by automating key processes. The ability to preempt outages.

Artificial Intelligence 286

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy 286

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Otherwise, you’ll either get the implicitly generated move functions, or else requests to move will automatically just do a copy instead, since copy is always a valid implementation of move (it just doesn’t exercise the non- const option). Can a given type document that moving from an object always changes its state?

C++ 98

C++ Testing Design Strategy 98

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets. There is bound to be lift in capacity, efficiency, and recoverable revenue for the architectural change, and this is easily projected against current state. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Sometimes it is divestiture or separation: sprawling firms that serve different buyers or markets don't achieve much in the way of operating efficiency, and a "conglomerate discount" priced into their equity means there is value that can be released by dividing a firm into multiple businesses. IT is at the center of deal synergy.

Airlines 40

Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. Tools can make good behaviours more efficient, but tools alone don’t introduce good behaviours in the first place. This is a continuation of a series I left off in December 2009 on Restructuring IT.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

We are a bit wiser (you could take that as older) now and we don’t wait until 5 o’clock but we still try everything we can think of to exercise the code. I am working on parts of SQL OS such as scheduling to make sure SQL Server, specifically SQL OS, runs efficiently on Windows and Linux.

Servers 40

Servers Games Azure Software Engineering 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Capitalizing development of IT assets is an exercise in funding salaries and contractor costs out of CapEx budgets.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. There is no perfectly efficient algorithm that gets everything right. And much as Bostrom feared, we have given them an overriding command: to increase corporate profits and shareholder value. But there’s another factor too.

Government 101

Government Best Practices Energy Efficiency 101

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. So DSLabs also uses model checking. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. With the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Azure Well-Architected Framework, organizations must ensure the workloads they modernize and migrate to the cloud are able to scale to meet changes in demand and usage over time. Operational excellence. Reliability.

Azure 188

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 188

The Agile Manager

APRIL 14, 2009

Don't assume that this is simply an exercise in implementing tools, and be prepared to iterate to achieve greater degrees of transparency. If you have well-running Agile projects today with efficient data collection, take your project tracking to the next level. Be aware that there are ramifications to increasing team visibility.

Games 40

Games Government Metrics Testing 40

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 226

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 226

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Many organizations already employ DevOps, an approach to developing software that combines development and operations in a continuous cycle to build, test, release, and refine software in an efficient feedback loop. Here’s why: Production is where most exploits take place. Truly implementing DevSecOps requires a cultural shift.

DevOps 155

DevOps Speed Infrastructure Best Practices 155

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

Now this could be a really interesting exercise in patients to hit F5 repeatedly until you get two different values. Figure 5: Plan for Query 5. Notice in the plan that the function is invoked only once. The good news is that a vaccine for COVID-19 will be found sooner.

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109