Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. Engineering for Speed and Reliability It shouldn’t be treated as a law that teams will clash when there is a dependency between their products, even if there is a big difference in mindset.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

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. Goldstine and J.

C++ 81

C++ Programming Code Testing 81

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In Companies gain speed by eliminating rework, which requires a test-first approach.” .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

That is, a company has power in the market if it attracts customers, employees, partners and investors through execution of its strategy; it also has power if it forces competitors react if they are to retain what they have. Patton… clearly appreciated the value of speed in the conduct of operations.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

This proactive approach allows you to incorporate necessary safeguards and contingencies into your product strategy, minimizing the chances of failure. By understanding what you don't want, you can work backward to identify the root causes and develop strategies to address them effectively.

Education 52

Education Strategy Innovation Virtualization 52

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. Gathering timestapms of changes made to application code during the outage.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

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.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In Companies gain speed by eliminating rework, which requires a test-first approach.” .

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet.

Speed 328

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 328

O'Reilly

APRIL 15, 2025

Some teams prefer to use an anonymized copy of production data, but either way, you need to ensure your test data has enough variety to exercise the scenarios you care about. This strategy reframes how we think about AI development progress. They want to know when features will ship and what theyll do.

Metrics 119

Metrics Testing Infrastructure Systems 119

O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

Managing the new risks required everyone to exercise new discipline. But before that, AIAWs must perform prep work around strategy: What is AI, really? Roles, strategy, and execution all call for periodic review and adjustment. The ability to run certain processes 24/7/365 created new efficiencies and risks alike.

Best Practices 59

Best Practices Java Software Software 59

Speed Curve

APRIL 7, 2025

My work in the past decade on performance has been an exercise in working backwards from strategy to tactics. And this strategy logic plays out in Android-land, where there are huge teams at Google that have no higher goal than to get folks that are happy making web apps to put something native in the Play Store instead.

Performance 52

Performance Energy Google Strategy 52