The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

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. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 148

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability. In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise.

Benchmarking 60

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

(There are advanced techniques that involve dumping and restarting an isolated portion of possibly tainted state, but that’s a system-level recovery strategy for an impossible-to-handle fault, not a handling strategy for run-time error.) Instead, the bug should be reported to the human developer who can fix the bug. von Neumann.

C++ 80

C++ Programming Code Testing 80

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. that are used across multiple applications.

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Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53