Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

In software we use the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to enable us to keep track of our system versus our goals, often shown in a dashboard – like below –, to help us to reach an objective or provide an excellent service for users. Ability to add the metric in one of your dashboards. Ability to define automatic baselining.

Metrics 170

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 170

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

Software ain’t cheap to buy, implement and live with. 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. This does not describe legacy modernization.

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. These led to bad decision-making about the software.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

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

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Latency 181

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 181

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

A truly modern AIOps solution also serves the entire software development lifecycle to address the volume, velocity, and complexity of multicloud environments. These teams need to know how services and software are performing, whether new features or functions are required, and if applications are secure.

Artificial Intelligence 291

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy 291

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

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

While I was writing chapter 3 of my book, Activist Investing in Strategic Software , I spent time researching the rise of centralized procurement departments in the 1990s. Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 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

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. Just don't mistake "sucking less" for "software excellence". Tools can make good behaviours more efficient, but tools alone don’t introduce good behaviours in the first place. First, don't fool yourself about your ambitions.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40

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. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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

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

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

For Federal, State and Local agencies to take full advantage of the agility and responsiveness of a DevOps approach to the software lifecycle, Security must also play an integral role across lifecycle stages. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 231

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 231

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Yet as software environments become more complex, there are more ways than ever for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities, even in the application development and delivery pipeline. Why application security measures are failing. Security happens during, not after development. The result is security by design.

DevOps 158

DevOps Speed Infrastructure Best Practices 158

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 193

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 193

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

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

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A unit test exercises a specific piece of code, while integration tests validate round trips to other systems, and functional tests validate complete scenarios. Functional testing tools have improved in recent years, making functional tests less fragile and easier to maintain when software changes. does it scale? is it secure?)

Government 40

Government Metrics Java Code 40

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

But, much like any other software that allows for concurrent session usage, there are mutexes/semaphores in the code that are used to limit the number of sessions that can access shared resources. 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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Faster and higher-quality software releases. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g. map-based property search) which deliver new type of value (e.g.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

We had the best integration platform for the software delivery toolchain —with truly differentiated capabilities, and a leadership position in the market. Tasktop Hub, the leading value stream integration solution for enterprise software delivery. As a product marketer, I was lucky. I wouldn’t have to spin gold from hay. And it has.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Innovation Software 52

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. So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

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. The philosophical differences underlying software update mechanisms run deep. " pantomime.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible. But those are things I did in image editing software.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This resulted in not only a better software asset, but an outcome that everybody is emotionally invested in. 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. The immersive nature in which these new muscle memories were developed came at a cost.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Apple added frictionless, safe payment.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Java Programming 64

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 26, 2010

A software application is not a collection of features that create business value. Some software requirements have a direct business impact. Thinking about "returns" is also more appropriate than "value" for capital deployment decisions, which is what software development really is. This isn't semantics. We expect a return.

Software 40

Software Software Technology Technology 40

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10