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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency.

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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

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives.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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. It was a Node.js Java…Script? ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

History & motivation There were two main motivating use cases that drove Pushy’s initial development and usage. 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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Five SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps Once you get started with these service-level objective examples, you can branch out to develop more targeted SLOs suited for your business. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It can be a nightmare to work efficiently. A design system, such as the one we developed for the Netflix Studio, can help alleviate most of these headaches. Then, developers have to begin consuming the libraries inside of applications, either with full re-writes or feature by feature. This investment is repetitive and costly.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” according to a statement signed by more than 350 business and technical leaders, including the developers of today’s most important AI platforms. Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. We satisfice.”

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

From failure injection testing to regularly exercising our region evacuation abilities, Netflix engineers invest a lot in ensuring the services that comprise Netflix are robust and reliable. Additionally, having a broad view of the system allows us to spot systematic risks as they develop.

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This has led us to develop a contrarian view regarding another topic that is running rampant in future of work discussions. 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. Cultivating capabilities. We all have muscles as humans.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. Business benefits include: Improved developer and operational productivity. Application monitoring. Application performance.

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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. This guarantees correctness before execution time, empowering developers to write faster, safer, and more expressive code.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. To make ML applications production-ready from the beginning, developers must adhere to the same set of standards as all other production-grade software.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

These contributors represent people from high school and undergrad students to full professors, from commercial developers to conference speakers, and from every continent (except Antarctica… I think…). Cpp2 and cppfront documentation As of this spring, we now have Cpp2 and cppfront documentation !

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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. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. So DSLabs also uses model checking. of the paper).

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 25, 2021

On a humorous note, O(N) remains O(N) no matter how hard we try to make it efficient: MyAssert( std::is_sorted( std::execution::par, begin(s), end(s) ) ); // still O(N) arbitrarily expensive, but good try! If you develop your own assertion system for in-house use, support enabling/disabling at least these kinds of assertions independently. [1]

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

The distribution operation was built on efficiencies: fill delivery trucks to a minimum of 80% capacity and deliver products to customers on routes optimized for time and energy consumption. Distribution is about efficiency, because efficiency translates into price. At this point, the cracks started to appear.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. Adjusting variables like innodb_thread_concurrency can help with this in a pinch, but when you get to this point, you really need to look at query efficiency and horizontal scaling strategies.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

A value-generative investment is a roll of the dice that, say, a new market opportunity can be developed or a cost efficiency can be made where none was possible before. A value-generative investment is an exercise in deploying risk capital through IT in the pursuit of extraordinary benefit that yields competitive advantage.

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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. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. As Chris likes to say, a front-end developer is aware. At the beginning of my development, I thought I might need certain assets or frameworks.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Capitalizing development of IT assets is an exercise in funding salaries and contractor costs out of CapEx budgets.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. So it is with this restructure: you’re developing new experience. Tools can make good behaviours more efficient, but tools alone don’t introduce good behaviours in the first place.

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Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Regression checks are vital from the continuous application development perspective wherein the new releases & fixes keep coming in as the application matures. Some best practices to follow for efficient regression testing. The development team should be encouraged to release frequent code changes to the testing environment.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It’s the gym membership that forces you to exercise. There are so many reasons why product development is slower than you want it to be: . The tool is there to help you practice VSM, daily. It’s the health, diet and fitness regime you follow to continuously shed pounds, starting week one. It’s the Fitbit you wear to keep you on track.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sometimes, this can be achieved with relatively minimal disruption, like when the products are highly distinct and can be developed fully in-parallel. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. This is often not the case, however.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The immersive nature in which these new muscle memories were developed came at a cost. No one seems to remember that your business partner all but demanded that you to pull the plug on the entire exercise just a few weeks in. This resulted in not only a better software asset, but an outcome that everybody is emotionally invested in.

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Programming Design Speed Efficiency 45

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company. We staffed poorly, plain and simple.

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Innovation Energy Serverless Games 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. She should be encouraged to exercise empathy, and to leave others feeling positive and motivated to work harder, rather than demotivated. . - Bob makes it difficult to hire other good staff (word gets around). -

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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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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It acts as a collaboration tool to balance the need for business correctness, user experience, and technical efficiency. Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. just see incompetent developers waffling about tech.

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Healthcare Database Software Architecture Software 10

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. App stores, as we know them today, are a fusion of several functions: Security screens to prevent malign developer behavior on overpowered native platforms. AAA gaming, CAD).

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

First and foremost, inversion helps product managers identify potential risks and challenges early in the product development process. By understanding what you don't want, you can work backward to identify the root causes and develop strategies to address them effectively. By asking the question, "What could go wrong?"

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