Tag: performance

  • 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence update

    VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements across Greenplum (now VCF 9 certified), Data Lake 2.0 (adds Spark support), GemFire 10.2, Postgres (TimescaleDB), Valkey, and RabbitMQ 4.2 (distributed delayed messaging). 🔗 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence Gets Smarter with New Updates and Enhancements – Tanzu

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  • Introducing VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7.5: Enhanced Performance for Data-Intensive Workloads – VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7.5 enhances performance for data-intensive workloads with optimized query execution, efficient maintenance, scalable streaming, streamlined AutoML, and robust geospatial capabilities. These improvements reduce processing times and resource demands, making it a reliable choice for analytical and operational data environments. Tanzu Greenplum…

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  • AI is great for churning out apps, but don’t forget to test – Enterprise AI needs testing just like code needs testing. // “Research published by Leapwork, drawn from the feedback of 401 respondents across the US and UK, noted that while 85 percent had integrated AI apps into their tech stacks, 68 percent had…

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  • Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability – All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving.

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  • Everyone hates Workday – “Workday reveals what’s important to the people who run Fortune 500 companies: easily and conveniently distributing busy work across large workforces. This is done with the arbitrary and perfunctory performance of work tasks (like excessive reviews) and with the throttling of momentum by making finance and HR tasks difficult. If your…

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  • 🗂 Link: IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT

    The vast majority of CIOs expect to deploy new technology stacks in the next 12 months. Most CIOs said they are already using or are planning to deploy microservices (88%), containers (86%), serverless computing (85%), PaaS (89%), SaaS (94%), IaaS (91%) and private cloud (95%) in the next 12 months. … CIO responses captured in…

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  • Link: The computers are too slow

    In the long run finance tends to proceed through logic and self-interest, but in the short run the computer systems cause a lot of frictions. Source: Bloomberg

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  • Link: Technical debt leading to a company crisis

    The power of focus. Before the crisis, each team worked on its own backlog and specialized in its domain. In the backlog, there were finely decomposed tasks, the team selected several tasks for a sprint. But during the crisis, we worked quite differently. The teams did not have specific tasks, they had a big challenging…

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  • Link: After Sondergaard, analyst firms must take stock

    “Analysts become dancers and performers, with all the good and bad that involves. They can internalise their projected self-confidence and capacity for accepting risk and ambiguity. Analysts can get carried away by the feeling of influence, their confidence, and the respect that clients show them. They start to believe their own performance. The generic reality…

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  • Link: Preliminary Analysis of the Site Reliability Engineer Survey

    If the response takes too long to get to your phone, the system might as well be “unavailable”: ‘If a page takes too long to load a user will consider it to be unavailable. I realized after the fact the nuances of this were not considered in the phrasing of one of our questions. We…

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