DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

After years of working in the intricate world of software engineering, I learned that the most beautiful solutions are often those unseen: backends that hum along, scaling with grace and requiring very little attention.

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Addy Osmani

JUNE 14, 2022

Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering Manager

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DZone

MARCH 9, 2023

In November 2022, the Green Software Foundation organized its first hackathon, “Carbon Hack 2022,” with the aim of supporting software projects whose objective is to reduce carbon emissions. In this article, I will summarize the key concepts of “green software” and explain how software engineers can help reduce carbon emissions.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The optimization of performance testing can contribute to achieving sustainable software engineering. The post Sustainable Software Engineering Through Performance Testing appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Why is the digital carbon footprint getting bigger every day?

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DZone

MARCH 12, 2025

Site reliability engineering (SRE) plays a vital role in ensuring Java applications' high availability, performance, and scalability. This discipline merges software engineering and operations, aiming to create a robust infrastructure that supports seamless user experiences.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 7, 2024

Also in April, I was interviewed by Jordi Mon Companys for Software Engineering Daily, and that interview was just published on the SE Daily podcast. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Searching for the right people can take time, especially in large and complex software environments. Despite increasing automation, software development and incident management are human-centered activities. Any software engineer can search for monitored entities that relate to specific deployments and their respective teams.

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Addy Osmani

DECEMBER 3, 2022

First principles thinking can be helpful for solving complex problems because it allows you to break down a problem into its core elements and then systematically build up a solution from there.

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DZone

DECEMBER 31, 2024

But hey, when you're a software engineer, your idea of "fun" sometimes involves comparing Deno and Node.js Okay, so picture this: its 11 p.m., Ive got a cup of coffee thats somehow both cold and scalding (a skill Ive mastered), and Im spiraling down the rabbit hole of JavaScript runtimes. Yeah, I know, wild Friday night, right?

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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

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DZone

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In recent years, observability has re-emerged as a critical aspect of DevOps and software engineering in general, driven by the growing complexity and scale of modern, cloud-native applications.

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DZone

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI.

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DZone

MARCH 8, 2024

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. This article explores the pros and cons of FSMs via simple examples.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In early September I had a very enjoyable technical chat with Steve Klabnik of Rust fame and interviewer Kevin Ball of Software Engineering Daily, and the podcast is now available. We hope you enjoy this deep dive into Rust and C++ on Software Engineering Daily.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is best thought of as a practical approach to speeding up new software development and delivery.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Alternatively, there's a more interest-based approach that you could be even at a mid to senior software engineer level. The company or the team believes that you're ready for managerial responsibilities, asking you to make the switch. This is a more traditional track that we see.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. How do you ace your DevOps interview?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Software engineers didn’t need to understand the database, and even if they owned it, it was just a single component of the system. Guaranteeing software quality was much easier because the deployment happened rarely, and things could be captured on time via automated tests.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

This approach delivers substantial benefits: consistent execution, lower costs, better security, and systems that can be maintained like traditional software. 90% accuracy for software will often be a deal-breaker, but the promise of agents rests on the ability to chain them together: even five in a row will fail over 40% of the time!

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Modern software practices are notorious for making code extremely hard to debug. Live snapshot includes variables, process, stack trace, and tracing information. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery. ” The post What is platform engineering?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Software engineering team scalability is equally important. Software Engineering Team Scalability. We can say that system scalability is about supporting a linear rate of growth in system resource requirements given that code running inside the system is unchanged.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today I want to tell you a few words about how you can describe your system through mathematical equations — at least to some degree. You will get familiar with terms like Contention, Coherency, and Coherency Delay.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

These methods can provide rich information for decision making, such as in experimentation platforms (“XP”) or in algorithmic policy engines. We want to amplify the effectiveness of our researchers by providing them software that can estimate causal effects models efficiently, and can integrate causal effects into large engineering systems.

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DZone

AUGUST 30, 2021

Identifying defects and troubleshooting for their root cause is one of the important but painful tasks in software engineering and essential to maintaining good quality software. To help them in the quest for improving MTTR, software developers use application monitoring tools.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Talks The Netflix Data Engineering Stack Chris Stephens, Data Engineer, Content & Studio and Pedro Duarte, Software Engineer, Consolidated Logging walk engineers new to Netflix through the building blocks of the Netflix Data Engineering stack.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Take one look at LinkedIn right now, and you’ll notice some of the most in-demand jobs include application developers and software engineers. After a deeper dive, you’ll find many companies across multiple industries are looking for site reliability engineers or SREs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

The website was born as a collaboration between the Innovation Lab and R&D Employer Branding team, with a double aim of showcasing our engineering excellence and of attracting even greater talent to our company. The post Showcasing engineering excellence at Dynatrace appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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DZone

JULY 14, 2021

Fei Xu (Software Engineer at PingCAP). Authors: Ruoxi Sun (Tech Lead of Analytical Computing Team at PingCAP). TiDB is a Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that can efficiently process analytical queries.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application. With that, Software engineers, SREs, and DevOps can define a broad automation and remediation mapping.

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Addy Osmani

JULY 16, 2023

Software engineering isn't just about keystrokes; it's fundamentally about problem-solving and critical thinking.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2024

But in software development, we want to be more like the Jedi, embracing diversity and learning from different implementations. Learn more about software engineering at Dynatrace. Visit the Dynatrace Engineering blog The post The Force of interfaces and meaningful class names: Don’t Be a Sith appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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