O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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. Well be designing and building new kinds of software that we couldn’t have imagined a few years ago.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Dynatrace is the leading Software Intelligence Platform, focused on web-scale cloud monitoring, delivering the richest, most complete data sets in the Application Performance Management market. These insights are critical to ensuring proactive application monitoring and optimal system performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We then used simple thought exercises based on flipping coins to build intuition around false positives and related concepts such as statistical significance, p-values, and confidence intervals. In this post, we’ll do the same for false negatives and the related concept of statistical power.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Analyzing user experience to ensure uniform performance after migration. 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. Operational excellence. Reliability.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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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. It also ensures your team shares common fluency in cloud best practices, which improves collaboration and helps your company achieve a higher standard of performance.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

These correlations help with troubleshooting issues or for optimizing performance, but in many cases, they don’t pinpoint the precise cause of the issue. To support its objectives, the company operates a digital platform that enables customers to earn points when they exercise or eat healthily.

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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.

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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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. 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. In other words, where the application code resides.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. The new version of the application is deployed in the green environment and tested for functionality and performance. Step 6 — Flow Designer rolls back through keptn.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus is a multi-tenant system, allowing multiple teams and users to run workloads on the system, and ensuring they can all co-exist while still providing guarantees about security and performance. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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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. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

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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. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both The steps can be arbitrary Python code. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

When humans have the ability to perform magical feats of recall or calculation but not to create something profoundly new out of what they have learned, we dont call them geniuses. This came home to me vividly when I read a paper that outlined how when ChatGPT was asked to design a website, it built one that included many dark patterns.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s what the data says” is a variation—“the data” doesn’t say much if you don’t know how it was collected and how the data analysis was performed. To borrow Henry Ford’s alleged words, it would be great at designing faster horses, if asked. “That’s what the computer says” is a refrain in many bad customer service interactions.

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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!)

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Finally, the device receives the message, and the action, such as “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix”, is performed. Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Dynomite had great performance, but it required manual scaling as the system grew. Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance management.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. Recommended reading : “ The Unseen Performance Costs Of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries In React Apps )” by Aggelos Arvanitakis. Design Tokens. Not only does Next.js Global styles.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. Once you create your own code of ethics, you might notice an improvement not only in your team’s work and performance but also in the team’s culture as well. Interaction Design Foundation. Devin Harold.

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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. with a peak performance of 4.701 PetaFLOPS.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

High-performing technology organisations are characterised by decentralisation: autonomous teams, masters of the problem space, who own products or features. However, if nobody reads the documentation and it gets out of date quickly, it’s a tick-box exercise rather than a value creating one. designing systems that document themselves.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The end result is the first major update to BetterTLS since its first release : a new suite of tests to exercise TLS implementations’ certificate path building. The reason that TLS protocol can support this is because agility has been designed into the system. BoringSSL BoringSSL performed similarly to OpenSSL.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Reading time 9 min When it comes to managing web performance, it’s vital to be proactive rather than reactive. To accomplish this goal, an organization needs to build internal processes and procedures that can operationalize a performance-first culture. The first step is to establish and implement web performance budgets.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. The design of an AI that will not destroy us may be the very thing that saves us in the end. .” Profit should be an instrumental goal, not a goal in and of itself. And as to our actual goals, Satya put it well in our conversation: “the moral philosophy that guides us is everything.”

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Physical Exercise. So, whenever you feel anxious or moody, just get into some exercises before getting back to work and you will most likely love the results. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The unstated assumption behind this discussion is that, if we don’t reduce the workforce as routine tasks get taken over by machines, we need to re-skill them so that they can move into other parts of the institution and perform a different set of tightly specified and highly standardized tasks. We all have muscles as humans.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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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. There are countless systems that can perform this task for small DAGs on a single server. Foundational Infrastructure Layers.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. as an (eventual) exercise of monopolistic power that held the web back for more than a decade? However, aside from the reading of tea leaves, there's no way to know if work is progressing.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 90

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The scenario Service considerations In this exercise, we wanted to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL v12.16 The 1-2-3 Steps Per the title of this post, the next is the list of steps to perform the PITR, then pg_upgrade to v15.4, Start the new instance to perform the PITR with LSN Start the new PostgreSQL instance.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Implications of the ‘Badge of Shame’ At face value, this visual marker would provide a very clear and urgent incentive for developers to build their site in a performant, optimized way using today’s best practices. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Wrapping up and looking forward.

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HammerDB

JULY 16, 2021

One of the most important concepts in analysing database performance is that of understanding scalability. When a system ‘scales’ it is able to deliver higher levels of performance proportional to the system resources available to it. reaches peak performance at 1006469 NOPM at 122 Virtual Users, with MySQL 5.7

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Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Steps to Performing Basis Path Testing The first step is to create a control flow graph for a specified code section. When there are multiple options for a decision, each decision outcome should be exercised before moving on to the next decision. Let’s say we want to perform basis path testing on a basic block of code.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. While Redis cluster configuration enabled larger deployments with high performance, resizing the cluster required backup and restore, which meant taking the cluster offline. Under the hood.

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