The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

Is every company destined to be a software company? Software is the means through which both of these things are done: we can use software to gather data, analyze performance and adjust operations in near real-time; we can also use software to reinforce identity, influence attitudes and drive behavior of consumers.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The key insight this led to is that ML models are software , derived from data. ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. ” – Bob Dorr, Principle Engineer SQL Server Support. Follow-up.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. SQL Server asks the CPU if it supports SSE or AVX in order to determine the level of hardware support present on the system. Else use Software algorithms. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Bulk Import.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. Test Automation is a software testing method that uses automatic methods to carry out a test case collection. Fast Feedback.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle. Gaining confidence.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. These areas benefit not only from neural networks ability to handle high-dimensional relationships but also recent hardware trends. Learned indexes. Bigger picture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. We can scale up when generation is occurring and scale down when there is no batch in the queue.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). Success with containers.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Machine Leaning at Amazon.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, engineers (me included) sometimes attack a problem with the tools they have readily available rather than taking a step back and examining the issue at large. Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer. On the same hardware/machine repeat steps 1 thru 3 using an instance of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 DEMO – It Just Runs: DBCC CheckDB. Paste the script below in a new query window.

Hardware 40

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. Most software is built to work for as many people as possible; this is called generalization. Norms stand in the way of generalization.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2015

IT generally organizes around technical roles: we have infrastructure people, database people, helpdesk people, software development people, and so forth. For utility functions, this works just fine: provisioning hardware and e-mail accounts is the same no matter who the user is.

Best Practices 40

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You should always validate the Fua capabilities with your device and hardware vendor. To accommodate a wide range of installations and hardware required four (4) options across SQL Server and the HE. Fua = Forced Unit Access. Device Flush.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

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