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. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Design applications to recover from errors gracefully. Reliability.

Azure 246

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

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. In addition to improving download speed, this is useful for cutting down on cross-region transfer costs when many workers will be processing the same data?—?we

Media 218

Media Storage Processing Cache 218

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. To support this growth, we’ve revisited Pushy’s past assumptions and design decisions with an eye towards both Pushy’s future role and future stability. For these requests where caching removed KeyValue from the hot path, we were able to greatly speed things up.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. It requires constant vigilance, and adaptation to new circumstances at the speed at which those circumstances change. The design of an AI that will not destroy us may be the very thing that saves us in the end.

Government 128

Government Best Practices Energy Internet 128

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Developers and designers who are skilled in building with performance in mind would likely be in higher demand. As a developer/designer, do you find that this is a good punishment for those who don’t follow best practices? Wrapping up and looking forward.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. To give you some examples, I've been talking to a few gaming companies lately, and their conversations are about the need for speed and flexibility in scaling, both in and out. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Speed Index. In the case of performance metrics, we're trying to capture the behavior of a website in terms of speed and construction. Speed is tracked by time-based metrics that capture when things happen during the user's experience with the website: start render, DOM interactive, page load, etc. Start Render.

Metrics 72

Metrics Website Speed Monitoring 72

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud-based tools are designed for teams with agile and DevOps cultures, and these tools offer speed by expediting testing in several ways. When you also want to exercise the advantage of parallel test execution. If we’re running hundreds of tests, even though we’re automating, it can be time-consuming.

Cloud 79

Cloud Testing Testing Tools Website 79

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Ideally, that’s something you or a designer would do when initially making the assets. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. Engineering for Speed and Reliability It shouldn’t be treated as a law that teams will clash when there is a dependency between their products, even if there is a big difference in mindset.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal.

Performance 45

Performance Metrics Website Speed 45

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

JANUARY 11, 2021

5] The program cannot recover programmatically by reporting a run-time error to the calling code (via an exception, error code, or similar), because by definition the program is in a state it was not designed to handle, so the calling code isn’t ready for that state. It’s time to terminate and restart the program. Goldstine and J.

C++ 81

C++ Programming Code Testing 81

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. In fields such as software operations, it can be too easy to assume that the success of business-critical systems are owed solely to the speed, algorithmic prowess, and preventative design of automation. The last word.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

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. Patton… clearly appreciated the value of speed in the conduct of operations.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

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

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. sysbench is a widely used open-source benchmarking tool that is designed to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and database systems. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet.

Speed 328

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 328

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

The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. 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

O'Reilly

APRIL 15, 2025

Teams with thoughtfully designed data viewers iterate 10x faster than those without them. Their product manager, a learning design expert, would create detailed PowerPoint decks explaining pedagogical principles and example dialogues. The investment is minimal compared to the returns.

Metrics 119

Metrics Testing Infrastructure Systems 119

Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

It helps you to write your test cases in plain English and accelerates the test case writing by up to 5x speed. Do not accept more work than you can execute in designated working hours. Take breaks and do exercise to keep the spirit high. One such test automation tool is Testsigma , which is cloud-based, AI, and NLP-driven.

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Testing Internet Internet Testing Tools 52

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

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Those courses include topics like design thinking, communication, entrepreneurship, and project management, in addition to courses on Microsoft Word and Excel. Apprenticeships are an ideal way to bring recent college graduates up to speed on skills they need. The Pearson correlation is 0.8, Critical thinking presents different issues.

Education 107

Education Azure AWS Java 107