Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

you will get exactly what you pay for…low-performing software teams. You will be handing the initiative to your competitors who invested in their software development capabilities and are out-innovating you as a result. How do I create high performing teams to out-innovate the competition?

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DZone

JULY 14, 2021

Fei Xu (Software Engineer at PingCAP). Authors: Ruoxi Sun (Tech Lead of Analytical Computing Team at PingCAP). TiDB is a Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that can efficiently process analytical queries.

Analytics 223

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2021

According to a performance test conducted by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, the process traced using strace ran 173 times slower, which is disastrous for a production environment. However, if you're running a trace in a production environment, strace is NOT a good choice.

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Systems Performance Software Engineering Performance Testing 166

DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the dynamic world of online services, the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) has risen as a pivotal discipline, ensuring that large-scale systems maintain their performance and reliability.

Engineering 169

Engineering Tuning Software Engineering Internet 169

DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Observability is the ability to measure the state of a service or software system with the help of tools such as logs, metrics, and traces. In this article, we will discuss the importance of observability in distributed systems, the different tools used for monitoring, and the future of observability and Generative AI.

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DZone

JULY 5, 2023

While load testing may sound like an esoteric domain exclusive to software engineers or network administrators, it is, in fact, a silent superhero in our increasingly digital world. Acting behind the scenes, load testing ensures the apps and websites we use daily are capable of withstanding the demands of their users without stumbling.

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Systems Testing Software Engineering Performance 109

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service .

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The database administrator could just step in and fix the performance issues we observed. Software engineers didn’t need to understand the database, and even if they owned it, it was just a single component of the system.

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Database Software Engineering Cloud Software 276

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

Engineering 246

Engineering Software Engineering Scalability Efficiency 246

Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. Software Engineers, was introduced to the fundamental concepts and tools on which Tasktop is built.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

During a breakout session at the Dynatrace Perform 2024 conference, Dynatrace DevSecOps activist Andreas Grabner and staff engineer Adam Gardner demonstrated how to use observability to monitor an IDP for key performance indicators (KPIs). Check out the Perform 2024 session: Observability guide to platform engineering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi, what’s your journey to data engineering at Netflix?

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Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams.

Engineering 207

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability 207

DZone

MAY 15, 2020

Without application performance monitoring in place, you can’t accurately determine how well things are going. Is the app performant? Now that you’ve deployed your code, it’s time to monitor it, collect data, and analyze your metrics. Are people using your app? Do the pages load quickly? Are your users experiencing any errors?

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Metrics Performance Development Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Mobile analytics can help organizations optimize their mobile application performance, earning customer accolades and increasing revenue in the process. How mobile application performance problems hurt user experience. Implementing the five steps to improve mobile application performance.

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Mobile Analytics Best Practices Software Engineering 207

DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering expertise to DevOps and operations problems. In SRE, service levels describe services provided to users within a given period of time in measurable terms.

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Software Engineering DevOps Google Engineering 130

InfoQ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Yao Yue, a Founder of IOP Systems, presented on performance engineering. Yue discussed in her session the evolving performance engineering in the modern era.

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Engineering Performance Hardware Systems 99

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to platform engineering, not only does observability play a vital role in the success of organizations’ transformation journeys—it’s key to successful platform engineering initiatives. With observability, organizations can easily detect any performance bottlenecks, bugs, or security vulnerabilities earlier.

Engineering 178

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 178

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. That’s where SRE comes in. SRE vs DevOps?

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DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 186

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026. Manage platform health and performance.

Engineering 270

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 270

Simform

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But the truth is - leading software engineers recommend writing code that is easy to understand. Complex commands, coding standards, algorithms, and data structures. The code written with strange symbols and characters sometimes seems like an alien language.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

These SLOs help to define and measure the expected level of performance for a particular service or application and can be used to track and improve service quality over time. This strategy establishes service policies around which you can organize the performance objectives of related services and applications. Web service 99.5%

Mobile 178

Mobile Metrics Software Engineering Availability 178

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Detect anomalies automatically The Dynatrace platform uses seasonal baselining to automatically detect performance spikes or degradations in your apps and services.

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Development DevOps Programming Cloud 258

DZone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Take one look at LinkedIn right now, and you’ll notice some of the most in-demand jobs include application developers and software engineers. After a deeper dive, you’ll find many companies across multiple industries are looking for site reliability engineers or SREs.

Software Engineering 246

Software Engineering Speed Engineering Monitoring 246

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This can often result from a lack of understanding of the discipline’s role in delivering on key performance objectives: SLOs. To overcome this hurdle, the panelists recommended that engineers communicate the value of SRE to higher-level executives through business data.

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Professor Beekums

MARCH 11, 2016

What was interesting was that here was an engineer that I would have hired in a heartbeat and yet his performance during the interview was incredibly mediocre. I recently gave a friend a mock interview. He was trying to prepare for a big interview and needed practice.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 40

DZone

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This article offers valuable insight and information to anyone involved in software development, quality assurance, or digital product management who will be navigating the complexities of digital experience testing, whether they are software engineers, quality assurance professionals, or digital product managers.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Performance Engineering team specializes in optimizing resource utilization at Netflix. Encoding Technologies teamed up with Performance Engineering to analyze the CPU usage pattern of AV1 encoding and based on our findings, Performance Engineering recommended an improved CPU scheduling strategy.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging. Identify KPIs Next, create a list of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that are important to the business.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Moreover, it takes an average of nine hours for a software engineer to remediate a problem within a production application. DevOps automation is necessary to increase speed and efficiency in the software development pipeline.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Automation refers to creating machine-executable processes to perform a task, such as deploying a virtual machine or performing a backup. Orchestration leverages DevOps tools that allow for rapid updates and releases, version control, and other best practices for software engineering.

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DevOps Virtualization Innovation Best Practices 205

DZone

JUNE 2, 2020

In the premiere episode, podcast host, Federico Toledo, interviews Robert Sabourin , Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering at McGill University and President of AmiBug.Com, Inc which focuses on consulting, training and professional development in all areas of software engineering.

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Testing Software Engineering Software Software 162

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Service Provider model is one of the least effective coordination models in software engineering teams. When their work is over, they either do work for someone else or work on their own priorities. There are some legitimate reasons to use this model, but you should avoid it unless you’re aware of the tradeoffs.

Software Engineering 186

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 186

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2022

Inaugural Women in Tech panel at Dynatrace Perform 2022. This February at Dynatrace’s flagship conference, Perform , the Dynaspace for Women hosted our first-ever Women in Tech panel. Rebeca Bolanos’ daughters watch the Women in Tech panel at Perform 2022. This panel made a bigger impact than we could have ever imagined!

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

Best Practices 186

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