O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

How does that apply when you need to debug AI-generated code, generated by a system that has seen everything on GitHub, Stack Overflow, and more? OReilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively. So if you write code that is as clever as you can be, youre not smart enough to debug it.

Programming 93

Programming Code Software Software 93

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

By virtue of the incredible volume, quality, scope (we actually go far beyond just application monitoring) and granularity of the data the platform provides, our customers have at their fingertips unparalleled insights about their systems, users, and so much more. On further examination you discover an abnormal system process has initiated.

Government 278

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 278

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.

Testing 211

Testing Metrics Latency Design 211

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. The engineers assess your technical skills by asking you to solve various design and coding problems. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

Engineering 208

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 208

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

During the recent pandemic, organizations that lack processes and systems to scale and adapt to remote workforces and increased online shopping are feeling the pressure even more. Then, using a design thinking process , ideate on the future and establish the business vision. Biz and tech are getting more complex, not less.

Strategy 245

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 245

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. That includes failures in parts of a system that occur at similar times and have a common root cause.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

Media 295

Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

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.

Design 120

Design Development Programming Website 120

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

JavaScript Design Patterns. Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS Selectors Cheatsheet is an interactive exercise to test your understanding of CSS selectors. CSS Flexbox.

Development 145

Development Games Education Programming 145

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 6, 2015

Grapevine was one of the first systems designed to be fully distributed. The origins of the system are described in Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing by researchers who all went on to become grandmasters in distributed computing: Andrew Birrell, Roy Levin, Roger Needham, and Mike Schroeder.

Systems 75

Systems Design 75

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

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

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

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. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner , this was a great opportunity for Dynatrace developers to sharpen their AWS skills and pursue or up-level their Amazon certifications.

AWS 246

AWS Best Practices Cloud Analytics 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

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. Conclusion An effective Service Level Objective (SLO) holds more value than numerous alerts, reducing unnecessary noise in monitoring systems.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 264

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You can always ask a question live , you can share your screen and get immediate feedback, and you can work on group exercises with people around the world. Live discussions and interactive exercises are at the very heart of every workshop, with group work, homework, reviews and live interaction with people around the world.

Design 105

Design Programming Testing Systems 105

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command. Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. The other main use case was RENO, the Rapid Event Notification System mentioned above. Dynomite had great performance, but it required manual scaling as the system grew.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

In fact, he noted, unlimited priors or experience can produce systems with little-to-no generalization power (or intelligence) that exhibit high skill at any number of tasks. 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.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Website Media 52

O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

“That’s what GPS says”—well, GPS is usually right, but I have seen GPS systems tell me to go the wrong way down a one-way street. In many ways, we’ve come to think of computers and computing systems as oracles. To borrow Henry Ford’s alleged words, it would be great at designing faster horses, if asked.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Games Innovation 120

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.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It helps people to understand the complex systems they are working with. 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. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

DevOps 72

DevOps Architecture Technology Technology 72

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing. Comments ().

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. And we should define current best practices in the management of AI systems and make them mandatory , subject to regular, consistent disclosures and auditing, much as we require public companies to regularly disclose their financials.

Government 130

Government Best Practices Energy Internet 130

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. The applications must be integrated to the surrounding business systems so ideas can be tested and validated in the real world in a controlled manner. Today, a number of cloud-based, auto-scaling systems are easily available, such as AWS Batch.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 145

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. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold.

Code 143

Code Design Education Government 143

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance. APM’s many forms.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 165

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Design 43

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++ 61

C++ Programming Code Google 61

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. specification and the final version.

Servers 172

Servers Testing Best Practices Java 172

Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year. We skipped a few sessions (the exercises), but in retrospect we should have watched them all I think. Q: How long did it take?

Transportation 52

Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s also awkward, an exercise of the blindfolded people describing the pachyderm. No surprise that strategic planning exercises tend to produce a lot of “what to do” options, which they present as a portfolio of strategic opportunities. Defining the opportunity through a thorough understanding what’s going on is hard. And that’s ok.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. 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.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? However, that design issue isn’t germane to this discussion. Tracing provenance with these more complex systems will be difficult—but with RAG, we now have the tools to do it.

Artificial Intelligence 133

Artificial Intelligence Google Media Processing 133

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-14.service. That is where all “ALTER SYSTEM SET/RESET” commands keep the information. But another database might be an OLAP system.

Database 120

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 120

Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

When there are multiple options for a decision, each decision outcome should be exercised before moving on to the next decision. Finally, once all the decision outcomes on the baseline path have been covered, apply the same approach to all subsequent paths until all the decision outcomes in the specified code have been exercised.

Testing 75

Testing Software Software C++ 75