O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Designing an effective AI learning path that worked with the Head First methodwhich engages readers through active learning and interactive puzzles, exercises, and other elementstook months of intense research and experimentation. A learner who uses AI to do the exercises will struggle to build those skills.

C++ 69

C++ Code Design Media 69

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Across the two days, there were sixteen new sessions – delivered for the first time – based on content derived from lab exercises developed and delivered by working with Dynatrace experts and our Partner communicate to showcase Dynatrace’s newest features. You can see a similar automation process on this GitHub repo.

AWS 245

AWS Lambda Performance Infrastructure 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

OReilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively. A good next step is asking an AI assistant to generate unit tests, either for existing code or some new code (which leads to test-driven development). You are still responsible for delivering working software.

Programming 93

Programming Code Software Software 93

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Rethinking the process means digital transformation. Dynatrace news.

Strategy 245

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

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. Traditionally, application security testing sits as a discrete stage between development and operations.

DevOps 235

DevOps Speed Infrastructure Software 235

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub.

Engineering 270

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead.

Open Source 236

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 236

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to DevOps best practices, practitioners need ways to automate processes and make their day-to-day tasks more efficient. It has now become a parallel exercise in the same CLI. And if you’re not an existing Dynatrace user, we encourage you to spin up a free trial and test drive the integration for yourself.

Code 246

Code Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The SEC cybersecurity mandate states that starting December 15 th , all public organizations are required to annually describe their processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material risks from any cybersecurity threats on a Form 10-K. Additionally, ensure they are aware of each of their roles and responsibility during the process.

Best Practices 279

Best Practices Government C++ Education 279

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Migration Testing Infrastructure Our monolith had been around for many years and hadn’t been created with functional and unit testing in mind, so those were independently bolted on by each UI team. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

Latency 239

Latency Cache Java Traffic 239

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Figure 1 – Individual Host pages show performance metrics, problem history, event history, and related processes for each host. Right-sizing is an iterative process where you adjust the size of your resource to optimize for cost. To do that, organizations must evolve their DevOps and IT Service Management (ITSM) processes.

Azure 246

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency DevOps 173

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. Both use the same database back-end and app configuration.

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Systems Traffic DevOps Database 38

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Edwards Deming, applying statistical quality control and total quality management throughout the manufacturing process, from raw materials, to work in process, to finished goods. Making matters worse, quality processes have not kept pace with the increase in complexity. Automated tests provide both of these things in software.

Software 40

Software Software Code Testing 40

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. Take a trial test at Linux Academy if it’s applicable to the cert you have in mind. Machine learning. Keep your AWS certifications fresh.

AWS 246

AWS Best Practices Cloud Analytics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments. Who did what and when?

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 145

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Technically, this is all done over MSMQ where requests are processed and eventually granted or rejected, notifying other services of the outcome. Instead, a more gradual process can be used, moving one endpoint at a time from MSMQ to the cloud, with the bridge transparently taking care of the routing.

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Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The end result is the first major update to BetterTLS since its first release : a new suite of tests to exercise TLS implementations’ certificate path building. As service owners, having test suites that can answer these questions can guide decision making. What is Certificate Path Building?

Servers 170

Servers Testing Best Practices Java 170

SQL Performance

APRIL 14, 2021

I’ll do my testing in tempdb, enabling I/O and time statistics: SET NOCOUNT ON ; USE tempdb ; SET STATISTICS TIME , IO ON ; Limitations of earlier ideas. Evaluating earlier solutions, one of the important factors in getting good performance was the ability to employ batch processing. This article is dedicated to Paul’s solution.

C++ 112

C++ Servers Testing Code 112

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Testing against real-world workloads (Redis, Apache, Nginx), disabling the 11 root causes results in maximum performance improvements in these three applications of 56%, 33%, and 34% respectively. Headline results.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

In contrast, a process suffering a total failure can be quickly identified, restarted, or repaired by existing mechanisms, thus limiting the failure impact. 71% of failures are triggered by a specific environment condition, input, or faults in other processes. In 13% of cases a module became a zombie with undefined failure semantics.

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Systems Software Software Programming 98

O'Reilly

JUNE 13, 2023

It also generated a short program that implemented the widely used Miller-Rabin primality test. Specifically, I was compelled to re-try my prime test. It didn’t generate any code, but provided a link to the Wolfram Alpha result page that described how to test for primality.

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Google Programming Database Testing 120

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.

Code 143

Code Design Education Government 143

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them.

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Artificial Intelligence Google Media Processing 133

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. This process includes a write-up of what happened, what mitigations took place, and what follow-up work was discussed.

Engineering 105

Engineering Innovation Systems Architecture 105

Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

So, we thought of sharing some tips and tricks with the testing community that is working from home, aiming to improve their working experience overall. This is critical since even if a small detail is missed the results can be catastrophic from a testing perspective. Tracking the processes to plan better.

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Testing Internet Internet Testing Tools 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? If you’re a professional data scientist, you already have the knowledge and skills to test these models. That’s sort of true. Get your results in a few hours.

Tuning 145

Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. A change to such parameters requires the postmaster — the main process of the PostgreSQL — to restart. Here is an example of the function definition to test the function-level settings.

Database 120

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 120

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.

Database 103

Database Traffic C++ Servers 103

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

then true else false end FROM generate_series(1, 10000000); Now we have our test table with some dummy data so we can practice. then true else false end FROM generate_series(1, 10000000); Now we have our test table with some dummy data so we can practice. Next is the table definition.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Tuning Testing Database 111

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The difference between “mediocre” and “great”, I believe, lies in the process. Rarely can you find inspiration accompanied by a thorough analysis of the process, research, and decision-making involved. That’s not to say that a “proper” design process is foolproof. Usability Testing. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

Design 113

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 113

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The engine processes the row through parent operators before releasing the shared lock prior to locking and reading the next row. When the engine chooses page-level locking granularity, it takes and holds a shared page lock while processing rows on the current page and then releases the lock right before acquiring a lock on the next page.

Testing 91

Testing Servers Cache Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Exercise/outdoors. Of course, the last thing we want is another tool in the shed to manage, and Trafft has done a very clever job in automating much of the process including taking payments, managing services, and invoicing clients. Let’s now take a look at a breakdown on how our day is being spent at work: Category. Cooking/Eating.

Games 141

Games Availability Software Software 141

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

Across the industry, this includes work being done by individual vendors, that they are then contributing to the standardization process so C++ programmers can use it portably. 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.

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