O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” In the case of artificial intelligence, training large models is indeed expensive, requiring large capital investments.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 63

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. Open source software enabled it to escape from under the thumb of the PC era’s dominant monopoly. What role might interoperability and open source play in keeping the AI industry a more competitive and inclusive market?

Social Media 91

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

O'Reilly

JULY 18, 2023

To discourage students from becoming over-reliant on AI tools, instructors used a mix of strategies, including making exams in-class and on-paper, and also having exams count for more of students’ final grades. Others shared concerns over the training data bias for AI tools. Also, since AI tools are typically trained on U.S./English-centric

Programming 64

Programming Education Code Strategy 64

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Gartner data also indicates that at least 81% of organizations have adopted a multicloud strategy. Unlike traditional machine-learning models that require extensive, time-consuming training, Dynatrace’s causal AI pinpoints normal and anomalous behavior in context in real time. AIOps done right.

AWS 229

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless 229

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

AWS speaker: Aditi Suresh, Customer speaker: Brian Rowe SUS205: Slowing down deforestation by using AI, ML, and open source data Organizations worldwide are developing solutions to evaluate, monitor, or predict land use and cover change in order to identify potential carbon credit projects, deforestation trends, and future wildfire risk areas.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We also need to source multiple images for each title representing different themes so we can present an image that is relevant to each member’s taste. We use an open source workflow engine Netflix Conductor to run the orchestration. The whole process can be divided into two parts Generation Review 1.

Design 182

Design Open Source C++ Availability 182

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 13, 2020

There are a variety of strategies both for weighting and for pruning edges. Learning-based methods train classifiers for pruning. Open source ER systems. The survey includes an assessment of open source tools for ER, summarised in the table below. All of the discussed approaches require schemas.

Big Data 83

Big Data Open Source Processing Analytics 83

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Since The New York Times sued OpenAI for infringing its copyrights by using Times content for training, everyone involved with AI has been wondering about the consequences. And, more importantly, how will the outcome affect the way we train and use large language models? How will this lawsuit play out? Here’s mine.

Open Source 95

Open Source Strategy Government Tuning 95

VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

No system runs itself, and you can end up with far lower reliability than a much simpler system because you can’t afford the test and training environments to competently operate it. Keep it simple Thanks to the magic of open-source and hyperscalers, it’s very easy to rapidly assemble a system from a large number of third-party components.

Availability 52

Availability Latency DevOps Systems 52

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Creating and Contributing to Open Source Code Show that you are a progressive company which values open source code. The top talent want to share their code with the worldwide developer community, and if you are creating open source code, they will want to work for you. It 100% can work.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Open Source Engineering Java 40

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. The post Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Strategy 178

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 178

Testsigma

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The following are a few examples of functional test automation tools: Quick Test Professional from HP Rational Robot from IBM Selenium, which is an open-source framework. Computer vision : Training computers to understand or interpret the visual world from images, videos and deep learning models.

Artificial Intelligence 54

Artificial Intelligence Testing Healthcare Innovation 54

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application).

Open Source 111

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Research from 2020 suggests that training a single LLM generates around 300,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions—equal to 125 round-trip flights from New York to London. This analysis provides us with a holistic view of our multicloud environment’s carbon emissions and identifies major emissions sources.

Energy 234

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 234

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As lists are the raw material of strategy and technology architecture, MECE list-making is one of the most useful tools you can have in your tool box. MECE, pronounced "mee-see," is a tool created by the leading business strategy firm McKinsey. Lists are the raw material of strategy and technology architecture.

Strategy 96

Strategy Database Technology Technology 96

Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As software testing plays a significant role in the delivery of the final product, it is necessary to consider that the testing process must involve accurate, exhaustive test cases and firm test strategy. Not providing proper training to team members. Training and adaptation. The best way to do this is by offering training.

Testing 73

Testing Open Source Strategy Processing 73

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

More than half of all respondents cited two key SRE adoption barriers: the perceived difficulty of training existing IT professionals in SRE best practices, and the cost and difficulty of finding skilled professionals. In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization.

Best Practices 188

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 188

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

It takes times to train statistics-based machine learning solutions, and this approach doesn’t scale easily with modern, dynamic cloud-native environments. This is a tough task for even large, experienced teams at the best of times, and almost impossible with the increasing use of third-party and open-source tools and technologies.

Artificial Intelligence 192

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Cloud Analytics 192

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This makes it much easier for organizations to transition to open source solutions, reduce costs, and avoid vendor lock-in.

Efficiency 100

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 100

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. This offers not just an audit train but an “audit trail on steroids.”‍A

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A company then needed to train up their ops team to manage the cluster, and their analysts to express their ideas in MapReduce. The overall idea of generative AI is to get a model to create content that could have reasonably fit into its training data. A basic, production-ready cluster priced out to the low-six-figures.

Hardware 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The biggest challenge was aligning on this strategy across the organization. We partnered with Netflix’s Developer Experience (DevEx) team to build out documentation, training materials, and tutorials for developers. The DGS framework is planned to be open-sourced in early 2021.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

High availability architecture for open source databases No matter where a database infrastructure is located (on-premises, public or private cloud environment, or hybrid environment) or what technology is used — be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB — it’s vital to eliminate single points of failure.

Availability 106

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As an online booking platform, we connect travelers with transport providers worldwide, offering bus, ferry, train, and car transfers in over 30 countries. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. This strategy had an immediate impact.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. All these terms refer to related technology and practices. Why businesses need APM. Advantages of a platform approach to APM.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost-intensive and not always fruitful, which makes having an excellent DX more crucial than ever. Between layers of services on multicloud platforms, Kubernetes architecture, and open-source technologies, the number of things that can—and do—go wrong with a user experience has exploded.

Mobile 218

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 218

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. And once the teams started working off of the knowledge, it meant organizing performance-focused design and code reviews, training and education, plus providing tools and assets to support these ongoing efforts.

Website 129

Website Performance Google Media 129

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Since most businesses are not Microsoft, Amazon or Google, yet most are disrupted by them, they need to build their toolchain from the best commercial and open source products and then architect them for flow. Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy.

Development 45

Development DevOps Google Innovation 45

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

So DSLabs uses two basic strategies to focus the search in the areas most likely to be fruitful: We’d like to know how deep into the graph we need to explore. It highlights a case where students, perhaps trained on good TDD practices (do students get taught that these days??) Even then, the state space can be huge (e.g.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 25, 2015

I was intimately familiar with Emscripten, having been trained by one of its most prolific contributors, Jukka Jylänki. The strategy worked out well; some of the content I had initially written about how JavaScript VMs and JITs speculate types was straight up wrong. When push came to shove, I did have difficulty removing sections.

C++ 43

C++ Google Games Open Source 43

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Luckily, multiple companies have been working on open-source QUIC and HTTP/3 implementations for over five years now, so we have several mature and stable options to choose from. There is no need to change your bundling or inlining strategy, nor to consolidate or shard your server farm.

Network 108

Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Communities in other fields have made a substantial effort towards “democratization,” where tools are not just made open source, but also accessible to everyone. For example, the existence and support of open-source frameworks such as LLVM or Tensorflow/Pytorch are an attractive element to many newcomers.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74