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.

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The process of gathering data will take some time, but we plan to periodically share statistics that we collect, like breakdowns of versions of database software being used or popular operating systems and architectures. The upcoming documentation release will explain this process in more detail.

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Open Source Database Operating System Programming 86

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. Usual exceptions raised by our system that is now considered to be normal by Davis.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While working as a DBA, we perform many regular tasks, and one of them is upgrading our database systems. The process using pg_upgrade is well documented , and you can easily find the instructions with little googling. When working with the upgrade exercise, the goal was to move from PostgreSQL 11 to PostgreSQL 12. Example case.

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C++ Open Source Database Programming 81

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The traditional EA role of documenting business processes and capabilities serves a purposes. It helps people to understand the complex systems they are working with. However, if nobody reads the documentation and it gets out of date quickly, it’s a tick-box exercise rather than a value creating one.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Review how the incident process was performed, tracking actions to be performed after the incident, and driving learning through structuring informal knowledge. Each of these steps has the incident commander and incident participants moving through various systems and interfaces. Perform Post Incident Review (PIR)? —?Review

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of a system to function under stated conditions for a period of time. Put simply, reliability means a system should work and continue working. assisting the responding service owners with understanding what systems are contributing to the incident Liaison?—?communicating

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them.

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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. If your company is pursuing AWS certification for a team, AWS Certification Exam Vouchers make the process easier. Then this one’s for you. Machine learning.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Agile manager does specific things: advances the understanding of the domain, has a symbiotic relationship with the do-ers, creates and adjusts the processes and social systems, and protects the team’s execution. We saw last month that just because somebody is the manager of an Agile team does not make that person an Agile manager.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. The second part of the workshop explores the company’s domain landscape (business processes, user journeys, products, systems, etc) using an event storm. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?

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Particular Software

MARCH 28, 2022

With a saga, a business process that would otherwise have been implemented as a clunky batch job 1 can be built in a much more elegant and real-time manner. we’re adding information to outgoing messages to more accurately calculate the critical time metric , which tells you how long after a message is sent for it to be fully processed.

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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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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Picture taken by Adrian March 17, 2020 A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. The first technique is the most generally useful.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Can an AI system be creative and, if so, what would that creativity look like? I’m skeptical about AI creativity, though recently I hypothesized that an AI system optimized for “hallucinations” might be the start of “artificial creativity.” We don’t know; a number of cases are in the legal system now. Or just derivative?

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Social Media Innovation Media Tuning 85

Apica

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With thousands of monitors in your current system, making the change can be a daunting prospect. We are here to make the process as seamless as possible; migration is a part of our onboarding process. First, we will examine your current monitoring system. Here’s how it works. Preparation. User management.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Here’s what we discussed so far: In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization. In doing so, they automate build processes to speed up delivery, and minimize human involvement to prevent error. Step 3 — xMatters alerts all the relevant resources.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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J. Paul Reed

AUGUST 7, 2023

In practice (and I’ve done this exercise with teams), this spectrum can provide useful insight. This creates a feedback loop for engineers about the accuracy of their own perceptions of various parts of the socio-technical system in which they work. The Action League: determining the action items since 1995!

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The authors selected a set of diverse application workloads, as shown in the table below, and analysed their execution to find out the system call frequency and total execution time. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Adrian Cockcroft outlines the architectural principles of chaos engineering and shares methods engineers can use to exercise failure modes in safety and business-critical systems. Kevin Stewart explores the people, processes, and cultural aspects that complement the cloud-native computing stack. Going (cloud) native.

Software Architecture 62

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 62

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database. Because most of those have been deployed in such a way that they are only communicating with trusted internal systems.

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Social Media Media Website Database 89

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. In a post detailing the thought process behind the planned feature, the Chrome team explains that “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging ”.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

If we accept the fact that Agile is a value system and not a set of mechanical processes, it stands to reason that there must be something different about the norms and behaviors of Agile managers vis-a-vis traditional managers. Create and adapt the mechanical processes and social systems through which the team gets things done.

Metrics 52

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process. When that happens, the exercise tends to yield no better than "less bad." It had licensed a workflow technology and contracted a large number of people to code and configure a custom solution around it.

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Programming Testing Code Technology 59

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. When finally we had all the processes migrated, we celebrated as we decommissioned Public102. It's not so easy with a junk drawer server.

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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. The first and most obvious is that they are long on how to start, but short on how to finish.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 181

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

With the amount of data flow across multiple modules in applications being made today, a feature addition or a fix can cause unexpected issues in the normal system operations. When is Regression Testing done? Regression checks should start as soon as a new build is released for testing and should be repeated for every new code build.

Best Practices 52

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate key IT operations processes, including anomaly detection and identification, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. To achieve these AIOps benefits, comprehensive AIOps tools incorporate four key stages of data processing: Collection. What is AIOps, and how does it work?

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy 291

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. The existing systems have their shortcomings, but we run a multi-billion dollar business on that code, so we must be pretty good at software. Destiny awaits.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Several event types are included in the health session, some of which include predicates to remove noise from the system health session. The events logged in the system health show a non-yield beginning, then a login timeout occurring and the non-yield ending. I started with a cmd file script exercising the connection path.

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Servers Network Database Systems 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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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."

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Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

By virtue of the incredible volume, quality, scope (we actually go far beyond just application monitoring) and granularity of the data the platform provides, our customers have at their fingertips unparalleled insights about their systems, users, and so much more. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

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