Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I asked around and heard that they are still working on it, but the AWS hiring freeze means that they don’t have the headcount they expected and are making slow progress on an API, more detailed metrics, and scope 3, which everyone is waiting for. Portfolio is currently reducing Amazons carbon footprint by 19 Million Metric Tons of CO2e.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Our checks are based on well-known problems that arise in experimental design and causal inference… PlanAlyzer checks PlanOut programs for a variety of threats to internal validity, including failures of randomization, treatment assignment, and causal sufficiency. PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point.

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today’s paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught my interest. High-level approach.

Programming 56

Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime. Wednesday?—?December This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

For instance, if you are fast-growing VC funded e-commerce startup and your number one business priority is multiplying current growth and performing exceptionally well on key financial metrics charted out by your investors. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? You want to move fast.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Remember, although the Marines put all recruits through a rigorous 12-week training program, every single one of those recruits is still just an entry-level soldier at its conclusion. Why should you expect different for software engineers? It can take years to train and groom people for more challenging roles.

Automotive 40

Automotive Software Engineering Programming Metrics 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

A Type-M error occurs when, given that we observe a statistically-significant result, the size of the estimated metric movement is magnified (or exaggerated) relative to the truth. We’ve run many tests in this area and use the distribution of metric movements from past tests as an additional input to the analysis. Sensitivity analysis.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243