O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That implicit context is a critical part of software development and also has to be made available to AI. OReilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively. Unit tests are a useful exercise because testing logic is usually simple; its easy to see if the generated code is incorrect.

Programming 97

Programming Code Software Software 97

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers. It has now become a parallel exercise in the same CLI. Dynatrace news. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Step 2: Plan.

Code 246

Code Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s also a great opportunity for you to learn more about the available roles, the technical challenges the teams are facing and what it’s like to work on a backend engineering team at Netflix. For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team.

Engineering 208

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 208

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Observability is a topic at the top of mind for all architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and more – each wanting to use observability to proactively detect issues and guarantee the best experience and availability to users. Metric 2 (Number of requests in error): It’s already available in the Dynatrace built-in metric.

Metrics 242

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 242

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

With so much at stake, the directive for IT and security teams became even more concrete: clinicians need systems that are available at any time and from anywhere, they could not experience outages, and they could not be vulnerable to cyberattacks. AIOps plays a critical role in this app’s availability.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency DevOps 173

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CSS Selectors Cheatsheet is an interactive exercise to test your understanding of CSS selectors. The first few are fairly easy but the exercises increase in difficulty as you get into more advanced selectors like lesser-used pseudo-classes. TypeScript Exercises. Image source: TypeScript Exercises ). Design Patterns Game.

Development 145

Development Games Education Programming 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. For example, real-user monitoring metrics might reveal a user performance issue that you can then apply to synthetic testing to replicate the issue by exercising the same transaction across several different variables. The bottom line?

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Jumping between different tools, ensuring data is correct and in sync is a low-value exercise for an incident commander. Getting Started Dispatch is available now on the Netflix Open Source site. Detailed instructions on setup and configuration are available in our docs. Slack for managing incident metadata (e.g.

Open Source 213

Open Source AWS Google Speed 213

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Once you have and understand this data, you can identify issues, find opportunities for improvement, and eliminate risks before you go through a costly migration exercise. With the reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework, organizations must ensure they build resilient and available applications.

Azure 246

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints. ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available. The thoroughness and flexibility of this replay pipeline is best described in its own post.

Latency 241

Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. If your workflow supports parallelism, Metaflow takes advantage of all CPU cores available on your development machine.

Open Source 135

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 135

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. What kinds of AWS certifications are available today? ” GameDay was such a hit that Dynatrace is planning more GameDays in the future, likely twice a year.

AWS 246

AWS Best Practices Cloud Analytics 246

O'Reilly

APRIL 8, 2025

Sorting is important, but not for the reasons a junior developer might think; almost nobody will need to implement a sorting algorithm, except as an exercise. Senior developers also exercise leadership, although it need not be formal. What resources are available? The solutions represent different approaches to problem solving.

Programming 52

Programming Code Software Software 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 264

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

As a member of the Platform Extensions practice I am one of the subject matter experts responsible for all services related to expanding the visibility of Dynatrace into technologies which aren’t available out of the box. Support for Python is available through the OneAgent SDK , and requires minimal code manual instrumentation.

Code 153

Code Development Metrics Network 153

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Even today, as the Hawkins team, we run through all of the above exercises and more to ensure that the design system is robust and has the level of support the engineering organization can trust. Finally, we helped bootstrap out features or applications for teams as a proof of concept.

Design 236

Design Systems Engineering Entertainment 236

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Throughout this evolution, we’ve been able to maintain high availability and a consistent message delivery rate, with Pushy successfully maintaining 99.999% reliability for message delivery over the last few months.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Durable and Highly-Available – DynamoDB maintains data durability and 99.99

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

Background in a nutshell: In C++, code that (usually accidentally) exercises UB is the primary root cause of our memory safety and security vulnerability issues. And it is true that its currently way too easy to accidentally let tendrils of silent UB slither pervasively throughout our C++ code. Most people just didnt notice.

C++ 70

C++ Programming Code Google 70

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

We can also save that view on our service which makes it more convenient for future analysis exercises. Instead of getting these answers in the multi-dimensional analysis view, we can define Calculated Service Metrics to have these data points available as metrics (SLIs). test name, test step.

Engineering 270

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Or the necessary features simply aren’t available in any data you’ve collected, because this problem requires the kind of nuance that comes with a long career history in this problem domain. And it’s available to everyone.

Tuning 145

Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Some of the apps now available on iPhone or Android may help with some of the realization by telling us how much time we spend gaming, emailing or watching YouTube on our phone. Exercise/outdoors. Simply take on the next task available from that category to keep your momentum going. Matthew Talebi. 2021-07-22T12:30:00+00:00.

Games 141

Games Availability Software Software 141

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

. : Limited to twenty participants, these full-day bootcamps include hands-on lab exercises using a live environment with the AWS console. Bootcamps you can register for include: “Getting Started with AWS,” “AWS Essentials,” “Highly Available Apps,” and “Taking AWS Operations to the Next Level.”.

AWS 93

AWS Games Education Innovation 93

Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

When you use -import-std or -include-std to make the whole C++ standard library available, cppfront tracks the ever-growing list of standard headers so that you can always use cppfront with the latest Standard C++. Support all C++23 and draft C++26 headers that have feature test flags. Tracked contracts changes in WG21 (e.g.,

C++ 116

C++ Lambda Code Open Source 116

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Here’s a simplified diagram of how that works: Now, the business wants a new mobile app that will enable users to do all of the things currently available over the web, including requesting flight upgrades.

Cloud 126

Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

When it became available, GPT-4 gave me similar results. The resulting essay didn’t demonstrate any familiarity with the articles beyond the abstract–fair enough, since for most of the sources, the abstract was all that was publicly available. And the result itself–well, that could have been a good guess.

Google 123

Google Programming Database Testing 123

Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

When there are multiple options for a decision, each decision outcome should be exercised before moving on to the next decision. Finally, once all the decision outcomes on the baseline path have been covered, apply the same approach to all subsequent paths until all the decision outcomes in the specified code have been exercised.

Testing 75

Testing Software Software C++ 75

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this blog, I am trying to list the options available for users and list them in increasing order of priority. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. The purpose is to give a high-level view to users. But this can be specified at the subsequent levels also.

Database 120

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 120

All Things Distributed

MAY 27, 2015

AWS Technical Bootcamps: Limited to 25 participants per bootcamp, these full-day bootcamps include hands-on lab exercises that use a live environment with the AWS console. Usually these cost $600, but at the AWS Pop-up Loft we are offering them for free.

AWS 76

AWS Education Big Data Games 76

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Today, a number of cloud-based, auto-scaling systems are easily available, such as AWS Batch. Fortunately, excellent off-the-shelf libraries like scikit-learn and PyTorch are available to help with model development.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Open Source Infrastructure 145

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

we’re making PMM publicly available on a newer base operating system based on Enterprise Linux 9 (EL9), specifically Oracle Linux 9. More than anything, we believe in taking a proactive approach to modernization and security and didn’t want to wait until the last minute. Starting with PMM 2.38.0,

Open Source 98

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Servers 98

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic. As a result, key migration no longer blocks I/O on the source, ensuring no availability impact. Under the hood.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

It adds overhead to tests that exercise the kernel memory controller, even when cgroups aren’t being used. The CPU idle power-state support patch similarly informs the kernel about fine-grained power-saving states available on Intel processors. The cgroup memory controller was introduced in v2.6

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Open Source 165