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., These correlations help with troubleshooting issues or for optimizing performance, but in many cases, they don’t pinpoint the precise cause of the issue.

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Dynatrace is the leading Software Intelligence Platform, focused on web-scale cloud monitoring, delivering the richest, most complete data sets in the Application Performance Management market.

Government 278

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 278

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. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases.

Media 295

Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Who performed it? 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. On its own, Davis has an excellent picture of the technical environment (Kubernetes clusters, serverless functions, VMs, and so on).

DevOps 245

DevOps C++ Serverless Processing 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

This post was co-authored by Jean-Louis Lormeau, Digital Performance Architect at Dynatrace. . You’ll learn how to create production SLOs, to continuously improve the performance of services, and I’ll guide you on how to become a champion of your sport by: Creating calculated metrics with the help of multidimensional analysis.

Metrics 242

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 242

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Finally, the device receives the message, and the action, such as “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix”, is performed. 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.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

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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Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It can be a nightmare to work efficiently. This greatly reduces the number of bugs and improves the overall health and performance of every application that uses the design system. Hawkins is the namesake that established the basis for a design system used across the Netflix Studio ecosystem. This would allow for an easy migration.

Design 236

Design Systems Engineering Entertainment 236

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

Best Practices Java Software Software 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance management.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 165

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. with a peak performance of 4.701 PetaFLOPS.

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

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.

Government 128

Government Best Practices Energy Internet 128

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. They reported a performance impact as low as 0.3% and finding over 1000 bugs, including security-critical ones.

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C++ Programming Code Google 67

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. CORE is a team consisting of Site Reliability Engineers, Applied Resilience Engineers, and Performance Engineers.

Engineering 105

Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 105

SQL Performance

APRIL 14, 2021

I also love his efficient and eloquent writing style. It has excellent performance, and there’s quite a lot that you can learn from it. Evaluating earlier solutions, one of the important factors in getting good performance was the ability to employ batch processing. I love Paul White ’s work. Well, he did , and it’s fascinating!

Servers 112

Servers C++ Testing Code 112

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The unstated assumption behind this discussion is that, if we don’t reduce the workforce as routine tasks get taken over by machines, we need to re-skill them so that they can move into other parts of the institution and perform a different set of tightly specified and highly standardized tasks. We all have muscles as humans.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

This month, I'm going to start exploring the submitted solutions, roughly, going from the worse performing to the best performing ones. Why even bother with the bad performing ones? This article is dedicated to this poor performing approach. Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise.

Code 116

Code Servers Performance Azure 116

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) and made me find another ~100x performance improvement (thanks Max!). Faster compile time when doing heavy reflection and code generation. Thanks, Max!

C++ 116

C++ Lambda Code Open Source 116

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. EuroSys’19. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Design 43

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. Very little can be more annoying and frustrating for users than poor performance, meaning long-running queries and high response times at the front end. In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Tuning Testing Database 111

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. Red, for instance, is often associated with danger, failure, and poor performance.

Design 113

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 113

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. Note that I am not focusing on reporting workload or other read query performance at this time – I merely want to see what impact I can have on storage (and memory) footprint of this data.

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance.

Traffic 98

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. The workflow orchestrator needs to perform a seemingly simple task: given a workflow or DAG definition, execute the tasks defined by the graph in order using the compute layer. Foundational Infrastructure Layers.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Open Source Infrastructure 145

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For each database that has pages in the buffer pool, there is a hash list of pages, in page ID order, that’s quickly searchable to determine whether a page is already in memory or whether a physical read has to be performed. Neither index is memory resident: the compiled plan take over 3.5 times longer.

Efficiency 54

Efficiency Servers Database Cache 54

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? If I am analyzing (apparent) performance shortfalls, how can I distinguish between cause and effect ? The processor hardware available to support shared-memory transport.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? If I am analyzing (apparent) performance shortfalls, how can I distinguish between cause and effect ? The processor hardware available to support shared-memory transport.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

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++ 63

C++ Programming Cache Testing 63

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Lighthouse.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

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.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

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?

C++ 98

C++ Testing Design Strategy 98

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. But is HR cost efficiency for Apple the most important feature of a web engine? decoding="async" loading="lazy" />. " pantomime.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? Now this could be a really interesting exercise in patients to hit F5 repeatedly until you get two different values. Figure 5: Plan for Query 5.

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

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. Culturally, make clear that an outstanding individual performance is a hollow (and dubious) victory in a failed team.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Software Software 40