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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The mandate also requires that organizations disclose overall cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance. Be sure to incorporate cybersecurity into every one of your organization’s strategies to ensure full coverage.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As AI becomes increasingly important to care delivery, the healthcare sector is pursuing a national strategy for AI. To support its objectives, the company operates a digital platform that enables customers to earn points when they exercise or eat healthily.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Flexbox Defense is a play on the ‘tower defense’ strategy game genre that teaches you flexbox through 12 challenges where you have to use flexbox syntax to stop incoming enemies from getting past your defenses. CSS Selectors Cheatsheet is an interactive exercise to test your understanding of CSS selectors. Flexbox Defense.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Getting hybrid workplace strategies right and ensuring substantive connections across global teams will be critically important in driving innovation and growth. IAI can enhance the processes that nurture employee experiences and a healthy and motivated workforce.

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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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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan? Interested in BYOC, but don’t want SSH access? No problem.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

For example, real-user monitoring metrics might reveal a user performance issue that you can then apply to synthetic testing to replicate the issue by exercising the same transaction across several different variables. Finally, combining RUM and synthetic monitoring data can make troubleshooting faster and easier. The bottom line?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. That said, the guiding thread, predominantly under the client’s control, remains the backend perspective. In other words, where the application code resides.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. Once the issue is resolved, the full chat transcript from this channel will also be automatically added to the service desk ticket, giving you even more detail for your post-mortem exercise.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

The incumbent can reap the benefits of change without needing to lead the change, all through exercising its market power and access to finance. There are no guarantees that an incumbent can successfully execute any strategy, let alone a strategy of co-option.

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

However, below are some ideas or other mental health improvement strategies that are effective which you can explore. Physical Exercise. So, whenever you feel anxious or moody, just get into some exercises before getting back to work and you will most likely love the results. It reduces anxiety, depression, and negative moods.

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Programming Energy Code Processing 106

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.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how how different domains connect to the business strategy. Like most of the exercises, the intention is to create a space to discuss, heuristics, principles, patterns, trade-offs etc. Is each domain core, supporting, or generic? There’s no correct answer for this activity.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I usually wake up and exercise before starting my day. With exercising starting as early as 5am, it has been a great way for me to jump start the day. (If When I get home from exercising, I help get the kids ready for school with my husband, have a cup of coffee, and then walk the kiddos up to school.

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

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

If there is strong disagreement between one or more principles that some feel should be combined while others feel should be separate, then run a dot-voting prioritization exercise. The latter is highly unethical and leads to false assumptions and even worse design and content strategy decisions. Design Prototypes.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In addition, it can also inculcate resources such as articles, podcasts, and breathing exercises to help users develop coping strategies and resilience. Users can embark on a musical journey with interactive tutorials, practice exercises, and gamified learning experiences tailored to different skill levels.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. If you’re not familiar with this syntax, you can check out “ A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties ”.) is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!)

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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 Conclusion Logical replication combined with Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) in PostgreSQL offers a powerful strategy for version upgrades without significant downtime. to PostgreSQL v15.4.

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Database Traffic C++ Servers 82

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No, this was a change in strategy. as an (eventual) exercise of monopolistic power that held the web back for more than a decade? The decision to hire, including some "big gets" in standards-land, indicated more was afoot, and the reason wasn't that Tim had suddenly lost his cool and started writing comedy-sized checks.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 90

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.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

Red-team exercises can uncover weaknesses in the system while it’s still under development. By assessing the risks and proactively developing mitigation strategies, you can reduce the chances that attackers will convince your chatbot to give them bragging rights. That’s because it is.

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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). Yes, in my view it does make it a buggy class that shouldn’t pass code review.

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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

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise. 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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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you’re new to domain discovery and modelling, check-out the free tools from the DDD Crew or the free kata exercise. This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Naturally, though, the business model, operating model, and strategy all become more complex, especially when dependencies and contention for limited resources arise.

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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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Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Next is the table definition. I included a sequence creation statement for the id column since one best practice is always to have a primary key column, but for the specific examples we will go through, we don’t need it.

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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. . A telecom giant was able to change its outsourcing strategy and renegotiate better terms with its managed service partners. The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

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Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first. 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. The more valuable the input, the longer they will be sitting there and waiting.

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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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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

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. 3 Inciting market change, then, determines whether you follow your strategy or react to another’s.

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Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Next you record what effect you expect your mitigation strategy to have, which should drop its RPN and then let you focus on the new highest RPN, until there aren’t any high values left.

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