Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Reliability.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

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. In addition, 45% of them have gone on to implement efficiencies in their roles, and 43% reported they were able to do their job more quickly after getting certified.

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AWS Best Practices Cloud Analytics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

While this is a relatively stream-lined process, it is not as efficient if a candidate is interested in or qualified for multiple roles within the organization. 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

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

The healthcare industry is embracing cloud technology to improve the efficiency, quality, and security of patient care, and this year’s HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla., To support its objectives, the company operates a digital platform that enables customers to earn points when they exercise or eat healthily.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 278

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 278

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

Design 113

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 113

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. Latencies The old api service was running on the same “machine” that also cached a lot of video metadata (by design). This meant that data that was static (e.g.

Latency 241

Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

Media 295

Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. With these clear benefits, we continued to build out this functionality for more devices, enabling the same efficiency wins. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there. Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. The model of a GPU is that of task parallelism describing the different stages in the pipeline, as well as data parallelism within each stage, resulting in a highly efficient, high throughput computation architecture.

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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. There is no perfectly efficient algorithm that gets everything right. The design of an AI that will not destroy us may be the very thing that saves us in the end. The consequences, like those of Midas’s touch, aren’t pretty.

Government 130

Government Best Practices Energy Internet 130

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 its designed to be super adoptable to bring existing code forward: Many of the improvements are adoptable without any code changes (really!)

C++ 65

C++ Programming Code Google 65

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Once we begin to exercise, the muscles grow again. People who have exercised innate capabilities and acquired developed capabilities will be much better positioned to acquire whatever skills they need to be successful. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Design 43

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. This poses a challenge to many infrastructure tools of today, which have been designed for more rigid traditional software in mind.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

By default or by design, different teams may deploy a combination of point solutions — specialized monitoring tools that capture the individual components of their application environment. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 165

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. But still, this is one of the most efficient ways of retrieving data from a table. If your workload and service design affords it, consider filtering your data thinking in retrieving just a few rows.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Tuning Testing Database 111

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Thank you to the following for their feedback on drafts of this material: Howard Hinnant (lead designer and author of move semantics), Jens Maurer, Arthur O’Dwyer, Geoffrey Romer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrew Sutton, Ville Voutilainen, Jonathan Wakely. This post is an attempt to shed light on that situation. or changes it to a known state?

C++ 98

C++ Testing Design Programming 98

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

This update covers Acknowledgments, and highlights of what’s new in the compiler and language since last time, including: simple, mathematically safe, and efficient chained comparisons named break and continue “simple and safe” starts with. In today’s C++, this kind of comparison silently compiles but is a bug.

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C++ Virtualization Lambda Code 97

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

That "Agile pilot" was a deliberate investment in the formation of behaviors designed to yield local (that is, team-level) optimization. Sustained, intense concentration on collaboration among consumers, designers, builders, testers and managers resulted in more experiments, more builds, more deployments, and more frequent feedback.

Programming 45

Programming Design Speed Efficiency 45

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g. map-based property search) which deliver new type of value (e.g.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Domain-Driven Design’s Aggregate pattern is used to bridge the gap. It acts as a collaboration tool to balance the need for business correctness, user experience, and technical efficiency. Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

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. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

I need calories after I run, a breakfast bar will do, I don't need a designer breakfast bar. Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. Utility purchases are driven by price sensitivity.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Games 40

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

I recall a question I posed to Nicole Bryan (now Tasktop’s Chief Product Officer) in those early days: If Tasktop provides the information highway for data to flow faster between collaborators, why don’t we also provide metrics and analytics on the speed and efficiency of their work? Her answer: It’s coming. . And it has.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Innovation Software 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

We are a bit wiser (you could take that as older) now and we don’t wait until 5 o’clock but we still try everything we can think of to exercise the code. I am working on parts of SQL OS such as scheduling to make sure SQL Server, specifically SQL OS, runs efficiently on Windows and Linux.

Servers 40

Servers Games Azure Testing 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

" By examining potential pain points and designing with empathy, you can create a product that addresses user needs and provides a seamless experience. This exercise helps uncover blind spots and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the situation. This approach helps build trust and loyalty among your target audience.

Education 52

Education Strategy Innovation Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

When working well — efficiently applying unobjectionable policy — store screening is invisible to everyone but developers. The nuances of careful security design are common casualties in FUD-slinging fights. Not draining other's bank accounts may be something of an exercise to the reader. ??.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

In some cases, if only a very few, these assets continue to be used because they still work very well, were thoughtfully designed, and have been well cared for over the years. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets.

Code 52

Code Architecture Programming Strategy 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Software Software 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. It seems entirely plausible that such a design could include a systematic conflict (a “structural hazard”) between the accesses needed by the execution pipes and the accesses needed by the retirement unit. FMAs/cycle.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. FMAs/cycle. .

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Video encoding is what MezzFS was originally designed for and remains one of its canonical use cases, so we’ll focus on video encoding to describe the problem that MezzFS solves. MezzFS collects metrics on data throughput, download efficiency, resource usage, etc. What problem are we solving? Its logs are collected in an ELK stack.

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Media Storage Processing Cache 218