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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This complexity comes in the form of new technologies like microservices and containers, heavy use of third-party integrations, and distributed transactions across multiple cloud environments and data centers. What do you see as the biggest challenge for performance and reliability? Biz and tech are getting more complex, not less.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The building blocks of multi-tenancy are Linux namespaces , the very technology that makes LXC, Docker, and other kinds of containers possible. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases. making it so that users cannot use “root.”

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Traditional IT projects are mass economy-of-scale exercises: once development begins, armies of developers are unleashed. Traditionally in IT, our gatekeepers are typically several different waves of requirements and specification documents, then software, then test results, then a production event.

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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.

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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. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Program Management Offices (PMOs) are at the nexus of this. IT projects are often structured by area of technology specialization (e.g., This means that lots of development tasks may be flagged as “complete” but they’re complete only by assertion of a developer, not by “fact” of somebody who has exercised the code from end-to-end.

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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. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. General Purpose GPU programming. But with the third generation interfaces, the true power of General Purpose GPU programming was unlocked. From CPU to GPU.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Navy during World War II who went on to create COBOL, one of the first programming languages? I continued into technology, blossoming my understanding of software delivery and the building blocks of our electronic world today,” says Zoe Jong, Director of Revenue Operations at Tasktop. We all are consumers of technologies.

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