Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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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. Improved user experiences.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. For example, ghost code - code that is not commented out but will conditionally never be executed - is likely to be confused for real code in a reverse-engineering exercise. Why not put them back on the payroll?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability. In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise.

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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. Disk IOPS The amount of disk IOPS your system uses will be somewhat related to how much of your data can fit into memory. When you saturate disk IOPS, your system is going to run slow.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. He had a strategy. Photo credit: @DOES_USA. I was like, “Wow! What’s next? Have you got a 12-month plan for this?”

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. 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.

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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. Dynatrace news.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

In this study, the diagnosis and resolution of an outage in a global Internet service, Etsy.com, was explored in an effort to uncover which cognitive strategies (specifically, heuristics) are used by engineers as they work to bring the service back to a stable state. First look for any correlation to the last change made to the system.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. 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.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Consider the scenario of an appointment scheduling system for a healthcare practice.

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