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. Performance-as-a-self-service . Get started today! .

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Apica

JUNE 22, 2022

Software testing is a huge domain, but it can be broadly categorized into two areas: manual testing and automated testing. Both manual and automated testing offer benefits and disadvantages. It’s worth knowing the difference, and when to use one or the other for best results. Automated Testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. As two examples, Roman Ferstl of Triscon noted that observability-driven DevOps has helped clients achieve 15x more tests with 10x more apps tested.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Identifying performance bottlenecks. Or has it become white noise?

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Communication and training: Keep all stakeholders informed about the progress and changes throughout the migration process. Testing and QA: Test the open source solution thoroughly to identify and address any issues before the full-scale migration. Use ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools to assist with this process.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Once installed, every single web service request processed by ASP.NET will be traced across all tiers and captured as a PurePath (Distributed Trace). The screenshot below shows a PurePath that was shared with me by our partner triscon from Vienna, which specializes in Load and Performance testing for large enterprise applications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. This article discusses one measure to prevent these kinds of errors, known as destructive testing. What is Destructive Testing? Next, you test for.bmp and.png file types to make sure they are not accepted.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Here are just a few use cases made possible from these APIs within a pipeline: Add context for what and who is performing deployments, configuration changes, or testing activity for your environment through information from Dynatrace events. Information events are viewable on the host, process, and services within Dynatrace.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) and Keptn – the Event-Driven Autonomous Cloud Control Plane – are helping our Dynatrace customers to automate their delivery and operations processes. The Dynatrace teams also built automation on top of Dynatrace to automate many tasks of our Continuous Delivery & Feedback (CDF) and operational processes.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

But the one process that sometimes lacked that attention was quality of releases. The concept of DevTestOps was introduced to put special focus on continuous testing for each step of the development process along with DevOps to produce quick, frequent and quality releases. Let us discuss about Continuous Testing.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

This article presents a list of some of the best available online Automation Testing courses and certifications you can consider. Hope this answers a few queries we receive for suggestions on Online Automation Testing Courses and Certifications. This is one of the fastest ways to get started with learning automation testing.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Create performance budgets and fight regression. What's blocking the user experience?

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

What is Testing? Testing is the process of finding defects in a product/process to notify behaviour that isn’t acceptable for a user, to highlight how much of the product conforms to the expectations and what are the deviations. What is a Testing Framework? What is a Testing Framework?

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. In this blog post, we discuss an approach to optimize the MySQL index creation process in such a way that your regular workload is not impacted. MySQL Rolling Index Creation.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. Practical planning. Performance testing. Seasonal readiness testing involves both the front and back end. Stakeholder involvement.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This is the first online performance engineering training for developers, architects, QA, and test engineers. The Performetriks team will share their collective experience from real projects and educate your team on how to write high performance applications. Front-end Development for Performance. Testing for Performance.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In the last several years, I’ve led many sessions on DevOps, NoOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Performance, Shift-Left, Self-Healing, and GitOps. Zeroing in on the current state of DevOps and autonomous cloud and advancing performance. A game-changing two days of enhancing business and IT performance.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is more in-depth and technical. Changes To Pages And Resources.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. web.dev’s main content is an image according to LCP (test ran on WebPageTest). Improving Largest Contentful Paint performance. This is currently the best use-case for fetchpriority.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

After the success of the books that Brian and I had written, which we got a cut of royalties for, our management decided that we should write books as our day job, and we assembled a team of experts to write up best practice guides as books in the Sun Blueprints series.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. Establish a performance culture. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render. Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. Establish a performance culture. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals.

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