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Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes

Dynamic IT professional with a proven track record in optimizing production processes and analyzing outages in complex systems handling millions of TPS. The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the importance of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices. Passionate about elevating operational excellence through strategic reviews and effective process enhancements.

Tejas Ghadge
on Sep 11, 2024
DevOps

Zero to Performance Hero: How to Benchmark and Profile Your eBPF Code in Rust

In this article, we will walk through creating a basic eBPF program in Rust. We will intentionally include a performance regression and then use profilers to locate and fix the bug. We will also create benchmarks and track them using a continuous benchmarking tool for CI.

Everett Pompeii
on Jun 18, 2024
DevOps

Delivering Software Securely: Techniques for Building a Resilient and Secure Code Pipeline

Your CI/CD pipeline can potentially expose sensitive information. Project teams often overlook the importance of securing their pipelines. This article covers approaches and techniques for securing your pipelines.

Satrajit Basu
on May 13, 2024
Cloud

Beyond API Compatibility: Understanding the Full Impact of Breaking Changes

In this article, we address the most contentious and misinterpreted parts of the SemVer standard, i.e backward compatibility and breaking changes. With the proliferation of SaaS APIs for Generative AI continuing, now is a good time for a retrospection on what constitutes a breaking change and how you can trade off backward compatibility and upgradability with modernization and iterability.

Ashwin Raghav Mohan Ganesh
on Jan 18, 2024
Culture & Methods

Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility

Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users.

Bryan Finster
on Oct 27, 2023
Web Development

How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?

The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, nor pausing the development of new features. In this article, we have analyzed a few best practices to help avoid that.

Adrien Joly
on Oct 20, 2023
Culture & Methods

Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems.

Jesse McCrosky
on Sep 01, 2023
DevOps

Thinking Deductively to Understand Complex Software Systems

Thinking differently can allow us to approach problems in new ways. With testing, approaching the problem with a negative approach can lead to more thorough test cases.

Martin Rixham
on Jun 13, 2023
DevOps

Effective Test Automation Approaches for Modern CI/CD Pipelines

Shifting left can be used to improve test design and lead to faster, more effective CI/CD pipelines. By focusing on building effective and efficient tests, CI/CD runs can quickly return feedback.

Craig Risi
on May 31, 2023
DevOps

AIOps: Site Reliability Engineering at Scale

AIOps can simplify and streamline processes which can reduce the mental burden on employees while improving communication and collaboration between departments.

Dominick Blue
on May 02, 2023
DevOps

How Not to Use the DORA Metrics to Measure DevOps Performance

The DORA metrics are the de facto measuring stick but they can be used incorrectly and drive poor behavior and performance. When using any metrics, a strong focus on the end goal must be maintained.

David Rant
on Apr 28, 2023
DevOps

Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation

As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to managing APIs at scale.

Darshan Shivashankar
on Apr 19, 2023