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. It also ensures your team shares common fluency in cloud best practices, which improves collaboration and helps your company achieve a higher standard of performance.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Dynatrace is the leading Software Intelligence Platform, focused on web-scale cloud monitoring, delivering the richest, most complete data sets in the Application Performance Management market.

Government 221

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 221

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

This post was co-authored by Jean-Louis Lormeau, Digital Performance Architect at Dynatrace. . You’ll learn how to create production SLOs, to continuously improve the performance of services, and I’ll guide you on how to become a champion of your sport by: Creating calculated metrics with the help of multidimensional analysis.

Metrics 163

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 163

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. CORE is a team consisting of Site Reliability Engineers, Applied Resilience Engineers, and Performance Engineers.

Engineering 104

Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 104

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. The Not-so-good In the arduous process of breaking a monolith, you might get a sharp shard or two flung at you.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For each database that has pages in the buffer pool, there is a hash list of pages, in page ID order, that’s quickly searchable to determine whether a page is already in memory or whether a physical read has to be performed. The query requires a complete scan of the leaf level of the index to retrieve the query results. ) ; GO.

Efficiency 54

Efficiency Servers Database Cache 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance management.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

SQL Performance

APRIL 14, 2021

I also love his efficient and eloquent writing style. It has excellent performance, and there’s quite a lot that you can learn from it. Evaluating earlier solutions, one of the important factors in getting good performance was the ability to employ batch processing. I love Paul White ’s work. logical reads 0.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

This month, I'm going to start exploring the submitted solutions, roughly, going from the worse performing to the best performing ones. Why even bother with the bad performing ones? This article is dedicated to this poor performing approach. Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise.

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Code Servers Performance Azure 116

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance.

Traffic 88

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 88

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. Very little can be more annoying and frustrating for users than poor performance, meaning long-running queries and high response times at the front end. In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan.

Best Practices 89

Best Practices Tuning Database Testing 89

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The unstated assumption behind this discussion is that, if we don’t reduce the workforce as routine tasks get taken over by machines, we need to re-skill them so that they can move into other parts of the institution and perform a different set of tightly specified and highly standardized tasks. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained budgets — that a VSM tool will simply expose what is already known: “Our processes, workflows and tools are a mess. After we’ve cleaned up our act and matured our processes, we’ll finally be ready for a VSM tool.” .

Storage 52

Storage Speed C++ DevOps 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

They were in consultants in logistics, and they were lamenting how one of their clients was struggling in the wake of a business process change that another firm - a tech consultancy - had agitated for their mutual client to adopt. Distribution is about efficiency, because efficiency translates into price.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Lighthouse.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. This process can be messy and slow, but it never creates a political blockage for developing new capabilities for the web.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

To catch such bugs before they create havoc in production, it is important to include regression testing in the software testing process being followed by an organization. Regression tests should be performed just after the sanity testing is complete. Some best practices to follow for efficient regression testing.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Code Testing Tools 52

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? Well, I’m oversimplifying a bit.

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? Well, I’m oversimplifying a bit.

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93

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. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

M&A is a great process for creating fees for bankers, and for destroying the value held by shareholders." -- John Authers, writing in the Financial Times Industries tend to go through waves of deal-making. Glossy proclamations of new strategic visions often boil down to a prosaic cost-cutting exercise, or into a failure of implementation."

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. If you're wed to any aspect of your current organization, if you think process will make your business better, or if you're concerned about making mistakes or losing staff, you're really no more ambitious than being less bad.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. In '07, safety implied an unacceptable performance hit on slow single-core devices with 128MiB of RAM. The price paid for portability is some hit to theoretical maximum performance.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. Robinson (now Director of Policy for OpenAI) points out that every algorithm makes moral choices, and explains why those choices must be hammered out in a participatory and accountable process. But there’s another factor too.

Government 98

Government Best Practices Energy Efficiency 98

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He is brilliant at convincing the company to let him do what he wants, even when that ignores market demand or his own past performance. Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. He never seriously mentors or trains other staff – he does not see that as useful to his own career. **Bob

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. It acts as a collaboration tool to balance the need for business correctness, user experience, and technical efficiency. The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. Let’s refer to this as an Invariant Business Rule.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

They go on to report that 70% of the cases of these 7 chronic illnesses are preventable through lifestyle change: diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes and what not. This wording is intentional: how work is performed reduces the probability of failure.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The difference between “mediocre” and “great”, I believe, lies in the process. Data viz solutions are consistent with its purpose; a good balance between efficiency and complexity; Color palette. Rarely can you find inspiration accompanied by a thorough analysis of the process, research, and decision-making involved.

Design 94

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 94

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Engineers have built cost-efficient applications on top of Mantis to quickly identify issues, trigger alerts, and apply remediations to minimize or completely avoid downtime to the Netflix service. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. every second counts during an outage.

Open Source 148

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 148

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Engineers have built cost-efficient applications on top of Mantis to quickly identify issues, trigger alerts, and apply remediations to minimize or completely avoid downtime to the Netflix service. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. every second counts during an outage.

Open Source 101

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 101

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Engineers have built cost-efficient applications on top of Mantis to quickly identify issues, trigger alerts, and apply remediations to minimize or completely avoid downtime to the Netflix service. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. every second counts during an outage.

Open Source 100

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 100