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

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

Fermentation process: Steve Amos, IT Experience Manager at Vitality spoke about how the health and life insurance market is now busier than ever. As a company that’s ethos is based on a points-based system for health, by doing exercise and being rewarded with vouchers such as cinema tickets, the pandemic made both impossible tasks to do.

Speed 165

Speed Media Monitoring Engineering 165

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Getting the information and processes in place to ensure alerts like this example can be organizationally difficult. However, Dynatrace can often miss crucial pieces of the puzzle because humans haven’t told it about whole processes occurring on the “human” side of the environment. Offline processes.

DevOps 186

DevOps C++ Serverless Processing 186

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Performance efficiency. Figure 1 – Individual Host pages show performance metrics, problem history, event history, and related processes for each host. Right-sizing is an iterative process where you adjust the size of your resource to optimize for cost. Performance Efficiency. Operational excellence. Reliability.

Azure 193

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 193

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

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. Both DevOps and DevSecOps prioritize simplifying processes through automation. Security is a shared responsibility.

DevOps 158

DevOps Speed Infrastructure Best Practices 158

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.

AWS 214

AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 214

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

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 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

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Think of Smartscape as the visualization of ‘Observability’ across Applications, Services, Processes, Hosts, and Datacenters. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior. Showing a list of key processes.

Government 231

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 231

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. DSLabs post-processes failing traces to present them in the easiest to understand form possible for students, with events laid out in causal order wherever possible. EuroSys’19. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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.

Latency 233

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. This process includes a write-up of what happened, what mitigations took place, and what follow-up work was discussed.

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 170

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 170

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Let’s pretend there *is* a highly efficient mechanism to determine buffer pool contents the optimizer can use to help it choose which index to use in a query plan. Index_A has 200,000 pages at its leaf level, and Index_B has 1 million pages at its leaf level, so a complete scan of Index_B requires processing five times more pages.

Efficiency 54

Efficiency Servers Database Cache 54

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For us, skills are practices that are valuable in specific contexts, like how to operate a certain kind of machine in a particular environment or how to process certain types of paperwork in a particular business process. If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

First and foremost, inversion helps product managers identify potential risks and challenges early in the product development process. This exercise helps uncover blind spots and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the situation. Here's how you can use inversion as a mental model for product management.

Education 52

Education Strategy Innovation Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 14, 2021

I also love his efficient and eloquent writing style. Evaluating earlier solutions, one of the important factors in getting good performance was the ability to employ batch processing. Let’s examine the plans for two of the earlier solutions that utilized batch processing. I love Paul White ’s work. NullBits102400 ; GO.

C++ 112

C++ Servers Testing Code 112

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Adjusting variables like innodb_thread_concurrency can help with this in a pinch, but when you get to this point, you really need to look at query efficiency and horizontal scaling strategies. Conclusion Capacity planning is not something you do once a year or more as part of a general exercise.

Traffic 87

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 87

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

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. But still, this is one of the most efficient ways of retrieving data from a table. We can think of the Bitmap Index Scan as something between the Sequential and Index Scan. So every Index Scan access is two read operations.

Best Practices 87

Best Practices Tuning Database Testing 87

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise. Also, there's potential here to benefit from batch processing. With no supporting index, assuming DI demand intervals and SI supply intervals, this would involve processing DI * SI rows. This article is dedicated to this poor performing approach.

Code 116

Code Servers Performance Azure 116

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. Some best practices to follow for efficient regression testing. When is Regression Testing done? This creates a huge overhead on the test teams if done manually.

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

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

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

No one seems to remember that your business partner all but demanded that you to pull the plug on the entire exercise just a few weeks in. It's just a different process from what we follow today, right? With success comes selective amnesia. Still, it was a success, if a success on a small scale.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45

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. We staffed poorly, plain and simple.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website. This process can be “blocked” if it has to wait for resources to load before it runs. KB to 11.2 That’s a win!

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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

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

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? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

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

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? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93

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