CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]. [link] [link] --> Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is my favourite Core Web Vital. It’s the easiest to optimise, and it’s the only one of the three that works the exact same in the lab as it does in the field (don’t even get me started on this…). Yet, surprisingly, it’s the least optimised CWV in CrUX—at the time of writing, only half of origins in the dataset had a Good LCP : Once more, we saw an increase in the number of origins having goo

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Dynatrace

MARCH 7, 2022

Dynatrace news. In response to the Russian government’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, triggering a tragic humanitarian crisis, as well as U.S., E.U., and worldwide government sanctions, we are suspending all business in Russia and Belarus. Dynatrace has a strong moral imperative and is joining the global community in applying pressure on Russia to end its aggression against the people and the nation of Ukraine.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 30, 2022

Understanding the Postgres EXPLAIN cost EXPLAIN is very useful for understanding the performance of a Postgres query. It returns the execution plan generated by PostgreSQL query planner for a given statement. The EXPLAIN command specifies whether the tables referenced in a statement will be searched using an index scan or a sequential scan. Some of […].

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DZone

MARCH 25, 2022

Talking about development these days, streamlining the entire software development lifecycle turns out to be an extreme hustle. Especially, when you need to ensure the product developed should meet all the defined guidelines, right from the framed requirements to ensuring early and successful deliveries, quality often takes a backseat on the way to creating sustainable technology.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

I've been writing about page size and complexity for years. If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 9, 2022

[ Jump to: Original challenge | Solutions: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 ]. In this article, I continue exploring solutions to the matching supply with demand challenge. Thanks to Luca, Kamil Kosno, Daniel Brown, Brian Walker, Joe Obbish, Rainer Hoffmann, Paul White, Charlie, Ian, and Peter Larsson, for sending your solutions. Last month I covered solutions based on a revised interval intersections approach compared to the classic one.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 15, 2022

Diving into Automated Reasoning and Formal Verification with Dr.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2022

PostgreSQL Features and Use Cases PostgreSQL is an open-source Object-relational Database Management System (DBMS). It’s an advanced database management and analysis system that’s mainly used for eCommerce platforms, payment transactions, and various data warehousing solutions. It has been around for over 30 years and is regularly updated every year, supports various SQL functions like triggers, […].

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DZone

MARCH 25, 2022

As you may agree, it is important to test your code. The resilience patterns implemented in your application are code (even if they're just a bunch of annotations). Often I saw that this is not tested thoroughly or not at all. With Testcontainers , writing integration tests has become a commodity. We envision the same for resilience tests, so Steadybit open-sourced a small library built with the knowledge from our Chaos Engineering platform to help you write resilience tests with minimal effort

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Gtmetrix

MARCH 17, 2022

We discuss when you should and shouldn’t combine your website’s CSS/JS files. Overview Many caching plugins and themes on WordPress (or any other CMS) offer the option to combine your website’s CSS/JS files. While this was a legitimate recommendation to improve web performance in the past (for sites on HTTP/1.1), it isn’t all that […].

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Testsigma

MARCH 22, 2022

Organizations worldwide are adopting open-source software to drive technological innovations. Testers look beyond the obvious benefit of cost while embracing open-source test automation tools. The reliability, transparency, flexibility are added benefits of choosing an open-source test automation tool. Saving time is saving money! Open-source tools save time reinventing the wheel to build your test automation framework from scratch.

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Simform

MARCH 31, 2022

Docker containers, being portable, light-weight, and self-contained, fast-track development, testing, and server deployments. Find out the best Docker use cases that are revolutionizing the IT world across the board. The post Docker Use Cases: A Demonstrative Guide with Real-world Examples appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Dynatrace news. Every day, healthcare organizations across the globe have embraced innovative technology to streamline the delivery of patient care. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, this trend was undeniably apparent. Many hospitals adopted telehealth and other virtual technology to deliver care and reduce the spread of disease. But the push toward digital experiences was thriving long before the advent of the pandemic.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 15, 2022

Since our release of our fully managed dedicated database hosting on DigitalOcean, we have gotten many questions regarding the potential support for Bring Your Own Cloud on DigitalOcean. Today we can proudly announce that full support for BYOC on DigitalOcean is available in our console. With BYOC on DigitalOcean, you get all the benefits of […].

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DZone

MARCH 26, 2022

Introduction. Too often, software developers neglect cross-browser compatibility testing. It happens because developers put in a lot of effort into building an application that seems perfect to them, but cross-browser testing is essential if they want it to look the same on different machines. What Is Cross-Browser Testing? It is nothing fancy. It's a way to know whether your users will experience your website the way you built it and intended it to be.

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Gtmetrix

MARCH 31, 2022

Do you use a slider/carousel on your homepage? Learn why this polarizing feature may not be the most optimal solution for your website. Overview Sliders and carousels are ubiquitous on the internet as they represent a great visual feature to display content on your homepage. However, many website owners often overlook their performance implications. […].

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Internet Internet Website Performance 115

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Even with the increasing adoption of Agile and DevOps, many organizations still consider testers the gatekeepers of quality and are solely held responsible for the quality and approving releases. Such organizations blame testers for a missed production bug. No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-03-07T15:33:30+00:00. In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This hopefully leads to a greater experience for all users.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2022

Dynatrace news. GitHub Actions offer a great way to automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows. A fully automated software release pipeline helps you release new functionally faster and frees up precious developer resources to focus on innovation. GitHub workflows can be quite complex, executing dozens of individual build, test, and deployment steps.

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Kovair

MARCH 9, 2022

Views: 26 The success of any software product depends on comprehensive testing. Buggy or inconvenient software always gets discarded sooner or later. Testing for bugs.

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DZone

MARCH 21, 2022

Introduction. Businesses rely on automation testing to keep up with faster and higher-quality processes that agile development demands. There are many benefits of automation testing, such as reducing costs, avoiding delays, and helping to create a great customer experience. Unplanned or ad hoc testing can lead to discrepancies and issues that will directly affect the business deliverables.

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Simform

MARCH 22, 2022

Understanding the ecosystem of serverless technologies. Explore and understand serverless platforms, FaaS, BaaS, serverless security platforms, monitoring platforms, tools, frameworks and authentication & authorization services. The post Exploring the Ecosystem of Serverless Technologies appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 18, 2022

Working for a famous tech company, I get asked a lot "Why don't you use technology X?" X may be an application, programming language, operating system, hypervisor, processor, or tool. It may be because: - It performs poorly. - It is too expensive. - It is not open source. - It lacks features. - It lacks a community. - It lacks debug tools. - It has serious bugs. - It is poorly documented. - It lacks timely security fixes. - It lacks subject matter expertise. - It's developed for the wrong audien

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 30, 2022

Before you consider building a web or mobile app, one must know the different tools developers use while developing them. The reason is that the technology stack affects the pace of creating the app or digital product. It also controls the scalability and the overall cost of the project. There are numerous options available. Hence the choice needs to be made appropriately.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 7, 2022

Dynatrace news. Other benefits include faster software innovation, continuously improved user experiences, and increased operational efficiency, achieved with automatic and intelligent observability. We are excited to share the results of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on the Total Economic Impact (TEI) of the Dynatrace® platform.

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Kovair

MARCH 27, 2022

Views: 35 The software industry has boomed over the past few years. However, the only thing that differentiates the technology that manages to create an.

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DZone

MARCH 15, 2022

Introduction. Automation has become an integral part of any software development process. It has contributed to the digital transformation of many organizations worldwide. In this era where agile development is adopted widely to stay ahead in the competition, the demand for automation has become inevitable. Organizations are relying on their fast and sleek websites and mobile apps as their primary source of revenue generation, customer interaction, transaction processing, feedback, etc.

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Simform

MARCH 30, 2022

React Native vs Ionic is the biggest point of debate when it comes to the evaluation of cross-platform frameworks. In this article, we will evaluate React native vs ionic performance, user experience, and much more. The post React Native vs Ionic: Comparing Performance, User Experience, and much more! appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

Parameter Data Types. As mentioned in the first part of this series , one of the reasons it is better to explicitly parameterize is so you have full control over parameter data types. Simple parameterization has a number of quirks in this area, which can result in more parameterized plans being cached than expected, or finding different results compared with the unparameterized version.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Dynatrace news. When visiting or relocating to another country, you must go through the local Visa process, which is often done through an online portal ahead of your trip. The Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Qatar provides these immigration services online for their residents via their mobile app, Metrash. Following almost two years of restrictions, due to Covid-19, Qatar decided to lift the freeze on permit applications and as a result, June 24 2021 was a much-anticipated date for many as it was

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

When you work on a browser, you will often hear remarks along the lines of, Why don't you just put [popular framework] in the browser? This is a good question — or at least one that illuminates how browser teams think about tradeoffs. Spoiler: it's gnarly. Before we get into it, let's make the subtext of the proposal explicit: Libraries provided this way will be as secure and privacy-preserving as every other browser-provided API.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2022

In today's world, insurance companies provide a variety of insurance options related to life, automobile, health, property, and casualty, with different types of coverage plans. Insurance companies are continuously looking for technical solutions to meet the demands of the customers and create products according to their needs. Each technical solution needs to be tested thoroughly to be consistent and durable.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

The open-source movement has become the most talked-about topic in the tech industry for the past two decades. We see a huge demand, inclination, and adoption of open-source software by organizations as well as software workers. This quest for open source will only grow with time, and as testers, this opens up an array of opportunities for us as well as testing and tech communities.

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The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 23, 2022

I’m a huge fan of static generated websites! From a personal level, I have The Polyglot Developer , Poké Trainer Nic , and The Tracy Developer Meetup , all three of which are static generated websites built with either Hugo or Eleventy. In addition to being static generated, all three are hosted on Netlify. I didn’t start with a static generator though.

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Simform

MARCH 9, 2022

A microservices approach to application development enables IT organizations to be more agile and expedite time to market. But you have to be cautious while breaking an app into fine-grained services. Here’s everything you should know. The post A Guide on What Are Microservices: Pros, Cons, Use Cases, and More appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2022

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace’s purpose to help software work perfectly would not be achievable without the support of our passionate teams across the globe. Dynatrace’s focus on fostering an inclusive and supportive environment is critical to our mission to provide software intelligence to simplify modern cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation.

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