The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. ACID deployment : for every scheduler workflow definition change, we would like to have all the workflow assets bundled in an atomic, durable, isolated and consistent manner.

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Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 213

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

And according to recent data from Enterprise Strategy Group, 59% of survey respondents indicated spending on public cloud applications would increase in 2023. The company made these changes to support its ONETractor strategy, which seeks to deliver personalized, convenient shopping experiences anytime, anywhere.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For example, deploying, testing, validating, and releasing software are shared tasks across teams that differ mainly in the underlying tooling used for executing these tasks. Dynatrace Cloud Automation now enables you to implement process definitions that are tool agnostic. Execute the application lifecycle.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The mandate also requires that organizations disclose overall cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance. Don’t assume that applications are free of vulnerabilities because your organization has tooling — such as application security testing — and processes in place.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

Ideally, QA teams use production data for better test definitions (based on real use cases) and better workload modeling for load testing (based on real-world load behavior). Organizations that don’t look at production data may test the wrong things and simulate the wrong performance tests. This is good news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As we expand offerings rapidly across the globe, our ideas and strategies around plans and offers are evolving as well. Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Automated web testing is not a new concept today. With advancements in web development technologies and how complex web codes are written today, web testing was bound to walk this way sooner or later. Factors affecting ROI in automated web testing. First of all, we need people that can perform automated web testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. As two examples, Roman Ferstl of Triscon noted that observability-driven DevOps has helped clients achieve 15x more tests with 10x more apps tested.

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We use A/B tests to introduce new product features, such as our daily Top 10 row that help our members discover their next favorite show. My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side. New initiatives and strategy bets are captured in memos for anyone in the company to read and engage in discourse.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

To summarize the textbook definition, which originates from engineering and control theory, observability is essentially the ability to understand what is happening inside of a system from the knowledge of its external outputs. So, what do I do?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

All these definitions are distinct and important. This measurement includes time spent testing until the service is fully functional again. This includes time your team spends investigating, repairing, and testing. This pressure escalates the stakes on MTTR and other incident management metrics. So, what is MTTR?

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network 219

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle.

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Code DevOps Speed Government 167

Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2020

AIOps definition and classification. Dynatrace is a full-stack, all-in-one platform strategy vs a niche tool in a single category. It’s also not as simple to get started, as you need to configure all data sources and consume people hours to configure, test, measure. How could this be? So why are we sometimes omitted?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Problem, Strategy, and Solution Spaces To gain clarity on the terminology, it’s helpful to describe the various activities involved in building a product, which can then be grouped into buckets like problem and solution space or something else. In my work, I often encounter software developers who refer to the software as the solution space.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Regression testing is one of the most critical aspects of quality assurance. It goes without saying that adopting effective regression testing strategies can save development teams hundreds of hours of debugging. Before taking up the task of regression testing, the team needs to define the test framework that they plan to use.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 28, 2019

Automated Testing approaches and processes should adapt to the changes as well. In Testsigma we always keep up to date and we definitely can shed some light to the effective testing strategy for a microservices architecture. Want to make your Automated Testing strategy the effective one?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

One of the fundamental issues encountered during the annotation of our manually-labeled TVSM-test set, was the definition of music and speech. Applying a random sampling strategy, each training sample is a 20 second segment obtained by randomly selecting an audio file and corresponding starting timecode offset on the fly.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. This enables true Performance as a Self-Service!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These strategies help maintain system performance, reduce read overhead, and meet SLOs by minimizing the impact of deletes. Although clock-based token generation can suffer from clock skew, our tests on EC2 Nitro instances show drift is minimal (under 1 millisecond). This technique maintains read pagination protections.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With answer-driven automation powered by the new Dynatrace AutomationEngine, we’re releasing a solution that further extends our platform, putting answers into action, and empowering organizations to overcome cloud management challenges and unlock the full potential of their cloud strategy while reducing manual effort.

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Cloud DevOps Code Open Source 184

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. If you missed testing something, it’s totally fine to admit the oversight and take corrective actions. Exhaustive testing is impossible with limited time, resources and budget. Don’t Panic. Or during code review?

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Education Traffic Strategy Testing 105

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2022

Note the definition of the primary key constraint based on the composite key (grp, ord), which results in a clustered index based on the same key. To test the performance of your solution, you’ll need to populate the table with larger volumes of sample data. My test machine has four logical CPUs, running SQL Server ® 2019 Enterprise.

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C++ Strategy Testing Servers 136

O'Reilly

APRIL 25, 2023

First, note the overall strategy Xu Hao uses to write this code. He is using a strategy called “Knowledge Generation.” Many of the prompts are about testing: ChatGPT is instructed to generate tests for each function that it generates. If AI systems write the tests, do those tests themselves need to be tested?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The following shows the full remediation timeline table explaining every severity level including our SLA to remediate the problem: We have a clear definition of severity, its meaning and the maximum time it can take to remediate the problem in production. #3 internal bug bounty program and dedicated penetration tests.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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Cloud Testing Testing Tools Internet 67

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature. And just that is the reason why we are laying special emphasis on ‘insprint test automation’. In-sprint test automation simplified!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Configurations such as dashboards, alerting rules and Service Level Objective definitions are left to be created separately, and often manually. We might have a synthetic test template for a particular application which needs to be deployed in dev, staging and production. and some sample configurations used for integration testing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. days and therefore contributing > 90% of the overall Commit Cycle Time! Pitometer is a Node.js

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Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. She was torn though.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Powerful change streams and support for data definition language operations. Safeguarding your data, testing in a controlled environment, and having rollback plans are all part of this stage. Introduction of clustered collections for optimized analytical queries. In MongoDB 6.x: Auditing improvements with compression and encryption.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. Having said that, looking at data over the past ten years, it's safe to make the observation that pages are definitely trending bigger. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These are both utility based definitions. As opposed to utility-based definitions, the dominant legal doctrine of discrimination focuses on a decision maker’s motivations. Three popular algorithmic definitions of fairness are anti-classification , classification parity , and calibration. Algorithmic models of fairness.

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Metrics Best Practices Government Design 109