Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Every day, healthcare organizations across the globe have embraced innovative technology to streamline the delivery of patient care. Many hospitals adopted telehealth and other virtual technology to deliver care and reduce the spread of disease. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, this trend was undeniably apparent.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

O'Reilly

APRIL 8, 2025

As they move into the workforce, they need to deepen their knowledge and become part of a team writing a software system for a paying customer. Sorting is important, but not for the reasons a junior developer might think; almost nobody will need to implement a sorting algorithm, except as an exercise.

Programming 92

Programming Code Software Software 92

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2021

As a company that’s ethos is based on a points-based system for health, by doing exercise and being rewarded with vouchers such as cinema tickets, the pandemic made both impossible tasks to do. Vitality had to respond quickly to this change by signing up new partners and developing new ways of incorporating rewards.

Speed 241

Speed Media Monitoring Engineering 241

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

Cloud 126

Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

By virtue of the incredible volume, quality, scope (we actually go far beyond just application monitoring) and granularity of the data the platform provides, our customers have at their fingertips unparalleled insights about their systems, users, and so much more. On further examination you discover an abnormal system process has initiated.

Government 278

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 278

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

Media 295

Media Metrics Processing Systems 295

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Dynatrace news. Operational excellence. Performance efficiency. Reliability.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. Depending on the vendor or technology you work with, you may not be able to integrate existing tools with scripts for your tests. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

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. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner , this was a great opportunity for Dynatrace developers to sharpen their AWS skills and pursue or up-level their Amazon certifications.

AWS 246

AWS Best Practices Cloud Analytics 246

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. What problem are we solving? Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large

Media 218

Media Storage Processing Cache 218

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS Selectors Cheatsheet is an interactive exercise to test your understanding of CSS selectors. The first few are fairly easy but the exercises increase in difficulty as you get into more advanced selectors like lesser-used pseudo-classes. TypeScript Exercises. Grid Garden.

Development 145

Development Games Education Programming 145

O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

“That’s what GPS says”—well, GPS is usually right, but I have seen GPS systems tell me to go the wrong way down a one-way street. In many ways, we’ve come to think of computers and computing systems as oracles. That’s an even greater temptation now that we have generative AI: ask a question and you’ll get an answer.

Social Media 122

Social Media Media Games Innovation 122

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. All these terms refer to related technology and practices. Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Open Source 165

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. High-performing technology organisations are characterised by decentralisation: autonomous teams, masters of the problem space, who own products or features. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

DevOps 72

DevOps Architecture Technology Technology 72

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. All Things Distributed.

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Can an AI system be creative and, if so, what would that creativity look like? I’m skeptical about AI creativity, though recently I hypothesized that an AI system optimized for “hallucinations” might be the start of “artificial creativity.” This technology may be useful for repairing damaged works of art. Or just derivative?

Social Media 122

Social Media Innovation Media Tuning 122

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The authors selected a set of diverse application workloads, as shown in the table below, and analysed their execution to find out the system call frequency and total execution time. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update to the base operating system we build our images on top of. we’re making PMM publicly available on a newer base operating system based on Enterprise Linux 9 (EL9), specifically Oracle Linux 9.

Open Source 98

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Servers 98

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? Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. That’s sort of true.

Tuning 145

Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

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. Google recently published an article where they describe their experience with deploying this very technology to hundreds of millions of lines of code.

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C++ Programming Code Google 70

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like? The applications must be integrated to the surrounding business systems so ideas can be tested and validated in the real world in a controlled manner. Today, a number of cloud-based, auto-scaling systems are easily available, such as AWS Batch.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Open Source Infrastructure 145

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? What about the authors who teach their readers how to master a complicated technology topic?

Artificial Intelligence 134

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 134

Edge Perspectives

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Of course, we can get consumed by that exercise as well. Again, that’s not easy, but a key approach is to focus on identifying “influence points” – those locations that exist in all complex adaptive systems that have a disproportionate impact on the evolution of the broader system.

Government 77

Government Programming Systems Performance 77

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

Additional or more comprehensive capabilities that come standard with a new COTS product; lower labor intensity and less dependency on costly knowledge workers required to sustain legacy assets; and reducing systemic fragility (e.g., production downtime) are all very real economic benefits that have P&L impact.

C++ 52

C++ Efficiency Systems Technology 52

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s dynamic landscape of education app development as a technology has emerged as a transformative force, propelling the realm of learning forward. In addition, it can also inculcate resources such as articles, podcasts, and breathing exercises to help users develop coping strategies and resilience.

Education 52

Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It had licensed a workflow technology and contracted a large number of people to code and configure a custom solution around it. When that happens, the exercise tends to yield no better than "less bad." Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process.

Programming 59

Programming Testing Code Technology 59

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. The first and most obvious is that they are long on how to start, but short on how to finish.

Code 52

Code Architecture Programming Strategy 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Industry commentators often write as though the transition to mobile rigidly aligned OSes with specific technology platforms. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

If we accept the fact that Agile is a value system and not a set of mechanical processes, it stands to reason that there must be something different about the norms and behaviors of Agile managers vis-a-vis traditional managers. All useful, but not directly contributory to the technology asset itself. This manager is a tyrant.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. 1 The same applies to an Information Technology organisation that is core to achieving alpha returns : it needs the management practices to match high-capability people. Consider Xerox PARC.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations. Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. Destiny awaits. In practice, replatforming is messy.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Software Software 40

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Glossy proclamations of new strategic visions often boil down to a prosaic cost-cutting exercise, or into a failure of implementation." Obviously, we don't want to pay to maintain multiple e-Commerce sites or pay licensing fees for multiple ERP systems. We need to combine systems, and do so quickly.

Airlines 40

Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. The people I need to build long-lived products on my-business-as-a-platform-as-a-service using emerging technologies don't fit any definition of standard procurement. At the same time, it isn't that surprising.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Games 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Indeterminate counterparty risk in a highly interconnected financial system means there’s a chance capital markets could get blindsided yet again, so hedge funds are front and centre of the regulatory debate. Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Innovation Mobile Systems 40