The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2025

Technology services firms are going heavy on AI in delivery of services. The big up front design phase that lasts for months (if not quarters) is going to be a tough sell when the AI brought to bear is touted as a major time saver: in the minds of the buyers, either the machines speed things up or they dont. Not the customers business.

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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. TypeScript Exercises.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Most of my discussions begin with an explanation of how the Dynatrace platform works, including our OneAgent technology that automatically instruments and discovers application and infrastructure environments, and results in the entity map or ‘Smartscape’.

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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. We will use xMatters’ Flow Designer to create toolchains that automate remediation, and Dynatrace’ keptn to automate continuous operations. Flow Designer rolls back through keptn.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 21, 2020

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. Visualising Progress The theme of our workshop was to teach Strategic Domain-Driven Design using the Bounded Context Canvas as a visual model to aid learning. Digital tools like Miro allows us to design workshops as interactive journeys.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The building blocks of multi-tenancy are Linux namespaces , the very technology that makes LXC, Docker, and other kinds of containers possible. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. 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. What problem are we solving?

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

To borrow Henry Ford’s alleged words, it would be great at designing faster horses, if asked. But I don’t think an AI could ever design an automobile without having seen one first—or without having a human say “ Put a steam engine on a tricycle.” AI would have trouble creating anything new because AI can’t want anything—new or old.

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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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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This gets even more tricky when those integrations are over on-prem-only technologies, like MSMQ, that don’t integrate out-of-the-box with cloud alternatives like Azure Service Bus or Amazon SQS. the mobile app) can be built using modern, cloud-based technology while still leveraging the tried-and-true code in the various legacy systems.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. High-performing technology organisations are characterised by decentralisation: autonomous teams, masters of the problem space, who own products or features.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

All these terms refer to related technology and practices. APM has rapidly expanded to encompass a broad range of technologies and use cases. 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.

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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. This instance limit is a default usage limit, not a technology limit. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge. Recent Entries.

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This move becomes much more feasible now because technology is increasingly demonstrating the capability to take over routine tasks, freeing up worker capacity. 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. We all have muscles as humans.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. I like to think of design tokens as the glue that maintains consistency across the project.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like? 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. Why: Data Makes It Different.

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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? What about the authors who teach their readers how to master a complicated technology topic? However, that design issue isn’t germane to this discussion.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s dynamic landscape of education app development as a technology has emerged as a transformative force, propelling the realm of learning forward. Through this app idea, one can prioritize the well-being of students with an app designed to support their mental health and foster a sense of mindfulness.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

They’re a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. This also has the reverse of effect or forcing me to design each half-day around a very specific focus. I’ve learned a few more tricks since then which I think are worth sharing. I typically do 2 big, pre-planned workshops per-month run either publicly or privately.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although completing a story may require contribution from people in different roles - QA analyst and developer and experience designer, for example - each person is still responsible for the entire outcome of the story. All useful, but not directly contributory to the technology asset itself.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Development teams have a lot of specialists, both role (business analyst, developer, user experience designer, quality assurance analyst) and technical (mobile client developer, server-side Java developer, web client developer, etc.) It takes courage to exercise the quality call option. That's easy to write but difficult to do.

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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.

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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. Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. Utility purchases are driven by price sensitivity. Selling became a race to the bottom in pricing.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment. They make use of standard object-oriented concepts and languages (such as C#, Java, and JavaScript).

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment. They make use of standard object-oriented concepts and languages (such as C#, Java, and JavaScript).

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Industry commentators often write as though the transition to mobile rigidly aligned OSes with specific technology platforms. Only one vendor prevents developers from meeting user needs with open technology.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

1 The same applies to an Information Technology organisation that is core to achieving alpha returns : it needs the management practices to match high-capability people. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. The goal, the defined solution, the people, and the technologies constantly change.

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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.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

This camp values practices such as test driven design, continuous integration, co-located and cross-functional teams, short development iterations, and frequent releases of software. Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. Not only is this not value-generative, it adds a layer of decision making intermediation and creates ambiguity in responsibilities for requirements, analysis, design, and prioritization. It also assumes they've kept current with technology and process.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

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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. This approach fails spectacularly with AI.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

So, software is a part of a greater whole, and typically multiple generations of technologies must coexist peacefully and purposefully to provide a viable service. They were too wrapped up in silly technology debates (e.g., The past and present of enterprise integration. People forgot what SOA stands for. what’s the best ESB?'

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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. Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. Interaction Design Foundation. New York University.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

We, at Tasktop, had the knowledge, experience and technology to help them learn to do that. . Replacing one-off paper-and-pen value stream mapping exercises, Tasktop Viz continuously measures the flow of work through the configured value streams. While our technology is great, we never intended to license our products and walk away.

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