The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Product testing practices havent changed much in thirty years; software testing practices havent changed much in twenty. Automated tests provide both of these things in software. All too often, tests are written after the fact, which leads to best endeavors testing of the software as constructed.

Software 40

Software Software Code Testing 40

O'Reilly

APRIL 8, 2025

But the distinction between senior and junior software developers is built into our jobs and job titles. As they move into the workforce, they need to deepen their knowledge and become part of a team writing a software system for a paying customer. It almost sounds pejorative, doesnt it?

Programming 52

Programming Code Software Software 52

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

For Federal, State and Local agencies to take full advantage of the agility and responsiveness of a DevOps approach to the software lifecycle, Security must also play an integral role across lifecycle stages. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

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Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 278

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You study and practice coding interview problems for hours/days/weeks/months, only to be asked to merge two sorted lists. 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. These questions reflect actual challenges that our teams face.

Engineering 208

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 208

O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

If you AIAWs want to make the most of AI, you’d do well to borrow some hard-learned lessons from the software development tech boom. And in return, software dev also needs to learn some lessons about AI. We’ve seen this movie before Earlier in my career I worked as a software developer.

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Best Practices Java Software Software 69

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Change starts by thoroughly evaluating whether the current architecture, tools, and processes for configuration, infrastructure, code delivery pipelines, testing, and monitoring enable improved customer experience faster and with high quality or not. Constantly reinventing wheels with a “Not Invented Here” bias.

Strategy 245

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Using high-fidelity metrics, logs, code-level tracing, and a dynamic topology map of your applications, Davis can identify the precise root cause and prioritize its business impact. With the automated analysis of your code hotspots within Dynatrace, you can quickly identify bottlenecks and help you right-size your cloud resources.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Running many different workloads multi-tenant on a host necessitates the prevention lateral movement, a technique in which the attacker compromises a single piece of software running in a container on the system, and uses that to compromise other containers on the same system. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier.

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

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Traffic Website Latency DevOps 173

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

For more background on safety and security issues related to C++, including definitions of language safety and software security and similar terms, see my March 2024 essay C++ safety, in context. This is a status update on improvements currently in progress for hardening and securing our C++ software. Most people just didnt notice.

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C++ Programming Code Google 70

Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Basis path testing in software testing is a white box method where the tester examines the codebase to identify all possible paths that could be taken by the user to achieve their aims. The tester established a baseline by selecting the most critical, common, or obvious path through the code selection.

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Testing Software Software C++ 75

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). NSDI’20.

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Systems Software Software Programming 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Blue/green deployment for releasing software faster, safer. Let’s assume your team has just pushed new code and it passed pre-deployment testing. Once the issue is resolved, the full chat transcript from this channel will also be automatically added to the service desk ticket, giving you even more detail for your post-mortem exercise.

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Systems Traffic DevOps Database 38

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. Data scientists want to retain their freedom to use arbitrary, idiomatic Python code to express their business logic?—?like The steps can be arbitrary Python code.

Open Source 135

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 135

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. They’d say that the job involves writing some software, sure. But deep down it’s about the purpose of software. Pretty simple.

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Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Much of the code ChatGPT was trained on implemented those dark patterns.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Website Media 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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DevOps Software Engineering Open Source Infrastructure 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Faster and higher-quality software releases.

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Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 165

Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. Continuing this trajectory into the future improvements in the development of our software products will require many decisions. We are proud of how far we have come over the last 16+ years.

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Open Source Database Operating System Programming 111

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our training sets for AI are dominated by content created by AI. At some point in the near future, new models will be trained on code that they have written.

Programming 121

Programming Code Processing Engineering 121

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Now go rewrite all your code… we’ll wait…are you done yet? the mobile app) can be built using modern, cloud-based technology while still leveraging the tried-and-true code in the various legacy systems. It’s as if they’re saying, “Have you documented your system? Have you chosen a cloud provider? Do you have all the services in place?

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Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

In my records for the entire day, I put one color code for my work hours and will have a separate diagram specifically to break up my work hours. Exercise/outdoors. With tools like Trafft that have meeting scheduling software capabilities, we can easily set up our calendars to allow clients to book time with you directly.

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Games Availability Software Software 141

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Does your traffic increase come with updated code changes that change the queries? In fact, the most common cause of massive CPU increase that I’ve seen isn’t traffic increase; it’s code changes that introduced inefficient revisions to existing queries or new queries. Do these queries use more caches?

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

It wasn't until the 1950s (well, more accurately, the rise of COBOL in the 1960s) that we really started capturing business workflows in code. Then something happened that went largely un-noticed: those business people who had devised and performed the manual processes that defined the software solutions built in the '70s and '80s retired.

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Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. " The eventual Blink fork was precipitated by an insurmountable difficulty in doing precisely what Apple suggested to Congress: contributing code upstream to WebKit to enable new features. It's worth assessing these claims from most easily falsified to most contested.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

As a set of goals for software development, this troika is incomplete because it neglects quality. It's easy to assume that we're hiring competent developers who write high quality code, and most buyers don't know what to look for or how to look for technical quality. Stronger hand-offs will slow down coding. Be predictable.

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Mobile Code Java Software 49

Tasktop

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Armaan Bajwa, Software Engineer 2 : I enjoyed the whole conference, my favorite parts being: Author James Clear’s session about Atomic Habits on how to make tiny changes to your habits. Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code , spoke about choosing bravery over perfectionism. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox.

Software Engineering 59

Software Engineering Virtualization Network Software 59

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 3, 2021

Briefly, what is the difference among: (a) undefined behavior Undefined behavior is what happens when your program tries to do something whose meaning is not defined at all in the C++ standard language or library (illegal code and/or data). You’ll get some valid result, but you won’t know what the result is until your code looks at it.

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C++ Programming Lambda Code 73

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

“It’s written in ones and zeroes - binary code. You talk to the computer in one of these languages, and a piece of software called a compiler converts it into machine language. This blog is meant for those who don’t know x86-64 assembly, but maybe know a little C, and are curious about code generation.

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C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This blog post explains how a new software construct called a real-time digital twin running in a cloud-hosted service can create a breakthrough for streaming analytics. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You create a new server with the same software and add it to the load balancer. Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. It's easy enough to upgrade load-balanced web servers.

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Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Traditional IT projects are mass economy-of-scale exercises: once development begins, armies of developers are unleashed. Traditionally in IT, our gatekeepers are typically several different waves of requirements and specification documents, then software, then test results, then a production event.

Code 40

Code Latency Metrics Testing 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. Gathering timestapms of changes made to application code during the outage. A coded timelime was created dividing activities into three main types: Coordination activities. Capturing logs af any alerts that triggered during the outage.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Particular Software

MARCH 28, 2022

You can create a class that is a lousy saga but is still perfectly valid C# code. With Roslyn analyzers and code fixes , we can now do a lot better and help guide you toward the pit of success. This will save you time, as you won’t have to run your code to find out that you can’t use DateTime as a correlation property type.

Development 52

Development C++ Virtualization Metrics 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. I found a lot of value in the Coverage panel in DevTools because it will show just how much code is being used after everything’s downloaded.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This blog post explains how a new software construct called a real-time digital twin running in a cloud-hosted service can create a breakthrough for streaming analytics. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52