Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. Customized tests based on specific business processes and transactions — for example, a user that is leveraging services when accessing an application. What is real user monitoring?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. 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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Here’s what we discussed so far: In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization. In doing so, they automate build processes to speed up delivery, and minimize human involvement to prevent error. xMatters Slackbot pulls the on-call database.

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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. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Thinking, Remembering And Processing Information Better. However, below are some ideas or other mental health improvement strategies that are effective which you can explore. Some of its benefits include improving memory, learning abilities, social-emotional processing, sensorimotor processing, and many other cognitive functions.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

What started out as an exercise in solving our own needs in a customer obsessed way, turned into a catalyst for a broader industry movement towards non-relational databases, and ultimately, an enabler for a new class of internet-scale applications. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

The second part of the workshop explores the company’s domain landscape (business processes, user journeys, products, systems, etc) using an event storm. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how how different domains connect to the business strategy. Is each domain core, supporting, or generic?

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

is astonishingly dense with delayed features, inadvertantly emphasising just how far behind WebKit has remained for many years and how effective the Blink Launch Process has been in allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple. No, this was a change in strategy. Regardless, Safari 16.4

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Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The scenario Service considerations In this exercise, we wanted to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL v12.16 While we’ve contemplated taking a physical backup and conducting PITR , it’s worth noting that PITR can also be executed on the existing replica or delayed replica to expedite the process. and a v15.4.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise. Also, there's potential here to benefit from batch processing. It's curious the optimizer chose one strategy for the demand intervals and another for the supply intervals. This article is dedicated to this poor performing approach.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first.

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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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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. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Again, every millisecond counts. Lighthouse.

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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.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database. Red-team exercises can uncover weaknesses in the system while it’s still under development. That code was too trusting, though.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

First and foremost, inversion helps product managers identify potential risks and challenges early in the product development process. This proactive approach allows you to incorporate necessary safeguards and contingencies into your product strategy, minimizing the chances of failure.

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Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Bitmap Index Scan The planner chooses this index scan method when the query asks for a large enough amount of data that can leverage the benefits of the bulk read, like the sequential scan, but not that large that actually requires processing ALL the table. Next is the table definition.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

In this study, the diagnosis and resolution of an outage in a global Internet service, Etsy.com, was explored in an effort to uncover which cognitive strategies (specifically, heuristics) are used by engineers as they work to bring the service back to a stable state.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance written by Adrian Bece. She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. The Inclusive Safety Project. Eva on Twitter. Eva’s personal site. Weekly Update. Eva: Yes, absolutely.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Working with never-ending streams of data necessitates continuous processing of it, ensuring the system keeps up with the load patterns it is exposed to, and always provides real-time, up-to-date information. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. So DSLabs uses two basic strategies to focus the search in the areas most likely to be fruitful: We’d like to know how deep into the graph we need to explore. It’s hard to exhaustively test a distributed system with traditional testing techniques. So DSLabs also uses model checking.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. Imagine a business rule that all customers must have a first name, middle name, and last name.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

With users statically assigned to buckets during this weekly partitioning exercise, it remains to assign buckets of users to datacenters, which is done in an online fashion via a Stable Segment Assignment algorithm. Our solver employs a local search algorithm using the “best single move” strategy.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. For example, ghost code - code that is not commented out but will conditionally never be executed - is likely to be confused for real code in a reverse-engineering exercise.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He had a strategy. Getting feedback from auditors from get-go can simplify the process, explained Wolf. Despite Compuware being “in a state of decline” at the time, O’Malley ignored it. Chris had his sales hat on,” continued Aho. “He He laid out a mission. Results tied to the business.”. Roberts agreed.

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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. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2015

A few months ago, we took a look at the pathologies of matrixed organizations : no focus, amateur management, and people waging turf wars to secure power that they can exercise without consequence. The result is stationary organizational inertia, the portrait of a seized-up business. Another is denial: as Dr.

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