DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

They are rerun(in the best case) and thus defeating the whole purpose of this exercise while spending tons and tons of time/money/energy on this).nn> They are rerun(in the best case) and thus defeating the whole purpose of this exercise while spending tons and tons of time/money/energy on this).nn> "}">I heard all kinds of answers.

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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.

Healthcare 246

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Many organizations already employ DevOps, an approach to developing software that combines development and operations in a continuous cycle to build, test, release, and refine software in an efficient feedback loop. Here’s why: Production is where most exploits take place. Truly implementing DevSecOps requires a cultural shift.

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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. In addition, 45% of them have gone on to implement efficiencies in their roles, and 43% reported they were able to do their job more quickly after getting certified.

AWS 246

AWS Best Practices Cloud Analytics 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. With the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Azure Well-Architected Framework, organizations must ensure the workloads they modernize and migrate to the cloud are able to scale to meet changes in demand and usage over time. Operational excellence. Reliability.

Azure 246

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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.

Testing 208

Testing Metrics Latency Design 208

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Dynatrace can efficiently rote the problem to the teams that can solve it without disturbing anyone else. Create a new VM for this exercise and install a Dynatrace OneAgent. Any other key/value information you consider important. Demo: Add the human factor using the Dynatrace events API. Tag your host with demo: cpu_stress.

DevOps 245

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. This SLO example highlights the importance of a smooth and efficient checkout experience. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency DevOps 173

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

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. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

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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.

Media 292

Media Metrics Systems Processing 292

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Continuous improvement of services is the most efficient process for all teams that are looking to improve the performance of their applications by considering all layers of their architecture. Similar to an athlete, the objective here is to have teams always push the limits to become faster and stronger.

Metrics 242

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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. Some of this increased latency was mitigated by better observability and more efficient batching of requests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there. Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command.

Latency 231

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It can be a nightmare to work efficiently. Even today, as the Hawkins team, we run through all of the above exercises and more to ensure that the design system is robust and has the level of support the engineering organization can trust. Have you ever used a suite of applications that had an inconsistent user experience?

Design 235

Design Systems Engineering Entertainment 235

O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

The ability to run certain processes 24/7/365 created new efficiencies and risks alike. The efficiencies were double-edged: Automating one process might overwhelm downstream processes that were still done by hand. Managing the new risks required everyone to exercise new discipline.

Best Practices 52

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. There is no perfectly efficient algorithm that gets everything right. And much as Bostrom feared, we have given them an overriding command: to increase corporate profits and shareholder value. But there’s another factor too.

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Government Best Practices Energy Internet 130

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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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

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. Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of a system to function under stated conditions for a period of time.

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Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 105

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

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. People who have exercised innate capabilities and acquired developed capabilities will be much better positioned to acquire whatever skills they need to be successful. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. So DSLabs also uses model checking. of the paper).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Design 43

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money. With data-backed decisions, answers at the ready, and real-time visibility into business KPIs, companies consistently and more efficiently deliver better digital business outcomes across all their channels.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Infrastructure Social Media 165

Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

I haven’t had to optimize cppfront much yet because it’s been fast in all my uses, but Max Sagebaum exercised metafunctions heavily for @regex (covered below, in 0.7.2) Functions, including unnamed function expressions (aka lambdas), that do nothing but return an expression can now omit everything between ) and the expression.

C++ 117

C++ Lambda Code Open Source 117

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Data viz solutions are consistent with its purpose; a good balance between efficiency and complexity; Color palette. Talking to users” is like exercising or eating healthy — everyone knows they should do more of it, but few actually do it. Balancing Between The Complexity And Efficiency. Data Visualization.

Design 113

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 113

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Arguably, high-level programming languages like Python are the most expressive and efficient ways that humankind has conceived to formally define complex processes. Foundational Infrastructure Layers.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 145

SQL Performance

APRIL 14, 2021

I also love his efficient and eloquent writing style. Besides row mode being less efficient than batch mode for CPU intensive operations, also, keep in mind that switching from row to batch mode and back takes extra toll. This is actually a great learning exercise, and I suggest that you go through it before looking at the solution.

C++ 112

C++ Servers Testing Code 112

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! What does the answer to Question 1 imply for assertion checking?

C++ 64

C++ Programming Cache Testing 64

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. But still, this is one of the most efficient ways of retrieving data from a table. So every Index Scan access is two read operations.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Tuning Testing Database 111

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Of course we can always throw more disk at a table, but I wanted to see if we could scale this more efficiently than the current linear trend. At the time it had 3.75 billion rows, presented on 143 million pages, and occupying ~1.14TB. Sounds like a great job for compression, right?

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

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. Re-learning the fundamentals is an expensive proposition.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Let’s pretend there *is* a highly efficient mechanism to determine buffer pool contents the optimizer can use to help it choose which index to use in a query plan. If Index_A is mostly not in memory and Index_B is mostly in memory, it would be more efficient to compile the query plan to use Index_B, for a query running at that instant.

Efficiency 54

Efficiency Servers Database Cache 54

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. Conclusion Capacity planning is not something you do once a year or more as part of a general exercise.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise. This has to do with the fact that currently, SQL Server doesn't support an efficient combination of parallel order-preserving index operation prior to a parallel batch mode Window Aggregate operator.

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Code Servers Performance Azure 116

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.

C++ 52

C++ Efficiency Systems Technology 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Otherwise, you’ll either get the implicitly generated move functions, or else requests to move will automatically just do a copy instead, since copy is always a valid implementation of move (it just doesn’t exercise the non- const option). Can a given type document that moving from an object always changes its state?

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C++ Testing Design Programming 98

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

The application preserves detailed records of the user’s expenditures, provides assistance in the maintenance of the user’s budget, and gives the user the ability to exercise control over their own money and the flow of that money. This software is the most appealing option among those focused on finances.

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Entertainment Google Programming Games 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. Tools can make good behaviours more efficient, but tools alone don’t introduce good behaviours in the first place. This is a continuation of a series I left off in December 2009 on Restructuring IT.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40

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.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49