InfoQ Homepage Measurement Content on InfoQ
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If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Get There
Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren explain the importance of knowing how (and what) to measure in order to focus on what’s important and communicate progress to peers, leaders, and stakeholders.
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Precision Measurements in eCommerce
Jennifer Prendki showcases how precision measurements will allow companies like Walmart to deliver a more personalized experience in eCommerce through the combination of Big Data and hard science.
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Profilers Are Lying Hobbits (and we hate them!)
Nitsan Wakart discusses concrete cases in which profilers misguide, misrepresent and at times subvert the systems they aim to help us diagnose.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene provides an in-depth overview of Latency and Response Time Characterization, including proven methodologies for measuring, reporting, and investigating latencies, including pitfalls to avoid.
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Redefining Failure at Yammer
Nate Fink shares how Yammer has changed everything from how they structure teams to the role of managers to how they measure progress so they can not only survive but thrive learning.
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Do You Know How Fast You're Going?
Doug Talbot explains the importance of measuring to the Lean feedback cycle providing advice on what to measure and how often.
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Measuring Microservices
Richard Rodger discusses measuring the benefits of using microservices from a business perspective in order to evaluate their impact on an organization.
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Scaling AncestryDNA using Hadoop and HBase
Bill Yetman and Jeremy Pollack discuss using Agile techniques -start simple, get going, iterate- and the “measure everything” principle to create the architecture behind the Family History website.
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Agile Metrics and the Deadly Sins of Agile Measurement
Steve Lawrence showcases several agile metrics supporting an organization’s objectives, but also addresses some of the bad metrics and the 7 sins of Agile measurements.
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Feedback-based Evolutionary Design
Graham Brooks explores internal measurements used in a continuous delivery feedback mechanism in order to improve a system's design.
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Keynote: Predictability and Measurement with Kanban
David J. Anderson explains how to use predictability, measurement and change management to balance the factors of observed capability, staffing, and delivery targets to achieve predictable outcomes.
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Embracing Concurrency At Scale
Justin Sheehy explains the principles behind concurrent distributed systems: no global state, no ACID but rather BASE, no RPC but protocols over APIs, prepare for failure, degradation, measurement.