O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray modelwhere business logic lives entirely in promptscreates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale.

Software Engineering 114

Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems 114

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. Industry apps explosion. Here is a shortlist to get you started.

Performance 314

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 314

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

Open Source 147

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System 147

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

Java 261

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 261

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

Development 290

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. AI writes buggy code? So do humansand AI seems to be getting better at writing correct code.

Programming 93

Programming Code Software Software 93

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. Monitoring-as-code can also be configured in GitOps fashion.

Engineering 306

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 306

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

Engineering 264

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. Yet, ensuring code quality and breaking down silos are some of the many challenges that come with DevOps methodologies. Manually managing and securing multi-cloud environments is no longer practical.

DevOps 264

DevOps Virtualization Best Practices Innovation 264

Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. However, as software systems age, the time it takes to add new features grows exponentially?—?and

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

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Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

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. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters. Ahem, Slow!

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. This can be anything from adjusting monitoring and alerting to making code changes in production.

Engineering 245

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Operations teams want to make sure the system doesn’t break.

Open Source 246

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. Lambda is Amazon’s event-driven, functions-as-a-service (FaaS) compute service that runs code when triggered for application and back-end services.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? You study and practice coding interview problems for hours/days/weeks/months, only to be asked to merge two sorted lists. This is a conversation, not an inquisition!

Engineering 206

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 206

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 242

Open Source Cloud Games Java 242

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 207

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. What is DevOps?

DevOps 246

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel.

AWS 246

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 246

Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability. Introduction to Flaky Tests.

Java 134

Java Testing Software Engineering Engineering 134

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems, custom visualizations, and embed upcoming features of Metaflow directly into its views. It allows data scientists to define ML workflows, test them locally, scale-out to the cloud, and deploy to production in idiomatic Python code.

Open Source 228

Open Source Monitoring Scalability Code 228

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. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 145

DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering expertise to DevOps and operations problems. Service level objectives (SLOs) are the goals set for the availability expected out of a system.

Software Engineering 130

Software Engineering DevOps Google Engineering 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation. Permission whack-a-mole At Netflix, we’re firm believers in empowering our employees and providing low-friction systems that allow users to get their jobs done in a safe way. If you missed the talk, check it out here. No problem.

AWS 258

AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure 258

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

Java 209

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 209

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

Architecture 226

Architecture Latency Servers Systems 226

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

billion : venture investment first half of 2018; 1 billion : Utah voting system per day hack attempts; 67% : did not deploy a serverless app last year; $1.8 Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering.

Internet 135

Internet Internet Scalability AWS 135

High Scalability

JANUARY 8, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. Who's Hiring? Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

Java 137

Java Metrics Software Engineering DevOps 137

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ A really interesting thing happens when you go from developing a Software 1.0 (i.e.,

Systems 84

Systems Design Software Software 84

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. Who's Hiring? Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

Analytics 26

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 26

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. Then, development of even higher-level compiled languages like Fortran, COBOL, and their successors C, C++, and Java meant that most programmers no longer wrote assembly code.

Programming 145

Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

High Scalability

APRIL 10, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. Who's Hiring? Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

Analytics 26

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 26

High Scalability

JUNE 19, 2018

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. Who's Hiring? Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

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