June, 2020

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Top 27 Best Practices For Selenium Test Automation

DZone

In recent years, you’d hardly see an organization who had not transitioned to automation testing. After All, with quick feedback on new features, who’d want to miss out on Selenium testing. Even then, a few testers complain of the automation tests being unstable and unreliable. Trust me, that’s not true! A lot of the time the reason for your unstable tests is not following the right practices for Selenium test automation.

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Netflix Studio Engineering Overview

The Netflix TechBlog

By Steve Urban , Sridhar Seetharaman , Shilpa Motukuri , Tom Mack , Erik Strauss , Hema Kannan , CJ Barker Netflix is revolutionizing the way a modern studio operates. Our mission in Studio Engineering is to build a unified, global, and digital studio that powers the effective production of amazing content. [link] Netflix produces some of the world’s most beloved and award-winning films and series, including The Irishman, The Crown, La Casa de Papel, Ozark, and Tiger King.

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ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Scalegrid

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the top two open source relational databases in the world, and Redis is the top key-value database.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Line noise? Perl? Still uncertain? It's how you program a quantum computer. Silq. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who could benefit from understanding the cloud? Of course you do.

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Scale your API operations with our version 2 APIs

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Autonomous Cloud Programmability. Dynatrace v2 APIs transform your entire organization by making it as easy as possible to get started with monitoring automation and to solve your business problems with data-driven answers. Move towards BizDevOps : Cover all automation and integration use cases across your organization, not just in the Development department.

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React Security Vulnerabilities that Should Not be Ignored

Simform

The Javascript has had a long history of common security risks associated with it and Reactjs is no exception. The library, React, exhibits a few security vulnerabilities in some of its components boasting millions of downloads, some of which can be fatal for your web application. In this blog, you will find easy ways to fix Reactjs Security Vulnerabilities that reduce the chances of security flaws accumulating over time in your web application.

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A Guide To Automation Testing Using Selenium ChromeDriver

DZone

According to netmarketshare , Google Chrome accounts for 67% of the browser market share. It is the choice of the majority of users and it’s popularity continues to rise. This is why, as an automation tester, it is important that you perform automated browser testing on Chrome browser. ChromeDriver is used along with Selenium to automate tests on the Chrome browser.

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affordable, flexible and easy to use cloud platform for developers to work with. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database?

Database 217
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How TripleLift Built an Adtech Data Pipeline Processing Billions of Events Per Day

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. TripleLift is an adtech company, and like most companies in this industry, we deal with high volumes of data on a daily basis.

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4 steps to modernize your IT service operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. While optimizing delivery is very important, I haven’t focused enough on how Dynatrace helps IT Service Operation teams answer key questions they are faced with every day in their demanding job to keep Service Levels of their systems, service

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Page Experience and Core Web Vitals: a new SEO factor focusing on website speed

Dareboost

The Speed Report in the Google Search Console (recently renamed “Core Web Vitals”) is offering two new performance metrics: Cumulative Layout Shift and Largest Contentful Paint additionally to the First Input Delay. Core Web Vitals have also been deployed in tools such as Page Speed Insights or Lighthouse.

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Heap Memory In Java Applications Performance Testing

DZone

Does every performance engineer need to know about how memory in Java works? To completely fine-tune the java performance bottlenecks for high performance my answer is YES. Java memory management is a significant challenge for every performance engineer and Java developer, and a skill that needs to be acquired to have Java applications properly tuned.

Java 305
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5 Best Practices for Software Development and Testing

Kovair

The software development process may have become cheaper and easier over the years, but it’s still a mammoth undertaking that can cause many problems if.

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MongoDB Index Builds – Preventing Users From Triggering New Builds

Scalegrid

Index builds on MongoDB production clusters need to be handled with the utmost care. We have documented the issues in detail in one of our previous blog posts – The Perils of Building Indexes on MongoDB. Depending on the size of your data, both foreground and background builds can bring your cluster down. So, how do you prevent your users from accidentally triggering index builds from the MongoDB CLI?

Database 188
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Sponsored Post: StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart.

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Scale up your Dynatrace Managed software-intelligence deployment with self-healing insights

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. This makes Dynatrace a critically important enablement platform. Or, as one customer put it: “Dynatrace is a tier-0 application.

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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 3 – Derived tables, optimization considerations

SQL Performance

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I covered the logical, or conceptual, aspects of named table expressions in general, and derived tables specifically. This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. Recall from Part 1 the physical data independence principle of relational theory. The relational model and the standard querying language that is based on it are supposed to deal only with the conceptual aspects of the data and leave the physical impl

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Protractor Tutorial: Handle Mouse Actions and Keyboard Events

DZone

At times, while performing automated browser testing, you often have to deal with elements, which reveal only after you hover on the menu or after you click on them. In such cases, you can opt for using the action class for keyboard and mouse actions in Selenium Protractor. With the action class, you can automate representation of mouse activities, such as a mouse clicking, mouse hovering, etc.

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AWS Launch Wizard for quick SQL Server Always On deployments

SQL Shack

SQL Server Always On is a high-availability and disaster recovery solution. We can use multiple secondary replicas for configuring database backups, redirect read requests to offload primary instance load. For on-premises infrastructure, you can follow articles here, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, and configure SQL Server always-on functionality. In the AWS cloud, the overall logic remains the […].

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How Automated Testing Can Improve Performance and Efficiency

Kovair

Manual or Automated Testing for Your Software? No matter how skilled your Ruby, JavaScript, or PHP programmer maybe, they WILL make mistakes. Mistakes are unfortunately.

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NEW: Lighthouse v6 support!

Speed Curve

Lighthouse v6 has arrived! The much-anticipated update to Lighthouse is now available to SpeedCurvers as part of our latest test agent updates. Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. Google has been on a roll in 2020 with the introduction of Core Web Vitals and this latest update , and we are thrilled to offer support for both.

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Ensure great customer experience with fast analysis of mobile app crashes

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Mobile apps have taken over—they make life so much easier in so many ways. At the same time, mobile experiences have conditioned mobile consumers to expect an ever-growing level of speed, convenience, and personalization—no matter if it’s ordering food, scheduling a doctor’s appointment, or paying bills online. In these situations, a sudden app crash can make the difference between you or your competitor completing the transaction and retaining that customer’s b

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Remote Workshops Using Miro: What I’ve Learned So Far

Strategic Tech

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. This was necessitated by Covid. All my private and public trainings until March this year had been in-person. I knew that I didn’t want the online workshop to be a poor version of the in-person training. I wanted it to take advantage of everything digital tools can provide.

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9 Best Free Brainstorming Tools For Entrepreneurs

DZone

Brainstorming is essential to almost every other individual these days. Especially, when it comes to harnessing productivity in entrepreneurs these days, the importance of brainstorming can never be over-emphasized. Therefore, having great brainstorming tools at your disposal is vital.

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The end of the legacy Azure Service Bus transport

Particular Software

A while back, we introduced a brand new transport for use with Azure Service Bus. This transport was a necessary step in our Azure offering to allow users to target.NET Standard and.NET Core. It also used the new Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus client rather than the older, deprecated client. More importantly, it started the process of deprecating the now-legacy Azure Service Bus transport.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

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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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 3 ? Derived tables, optimization considerations

SQL Performance

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I covered the logical, or conceptual, aspects of named table expressions in general, and derived tables specifically. This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. Recall from Part 1 the physical data independence principle of relational theory. The relational model and the standard querying language that is based on it are supposed to deal only with the conceptual aspects of the data and leave the physical impl

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Davis AI now detects infrastructure availability issues as root cause

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Having been named as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner APM Magic Quadrant for the 10 th consecutive time proves that Dynatrace is the best-of-breed application performance monitoring tool available. Our Davis AI causation engine can easily detect root causes that are related to service slowdowns or increases in failures. But what happens if a service work perfectly but the underlying infrastructure, such as processes and hosts, experience an outage?

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Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter

Smashing Magazine

Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter. Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter. Carmine Zaccagnino. 2020-06-18T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-18T11:06:06+00:00. I’ve seen a lot of confusion online regarding Web development with Flutter and, often, it’s sadly for the wrong reasons. Specifically, people sometimes confuse it with the older Web-based mobile (and desktop) cross-platform frameworks, which basically were just Web pages running within browsers ru

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Understanding When to Use a Test Tool vs. a Test System

DZone

Testing is a mission-critical aspect of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). You'd be hard-pressed to find a software development professional who disagrees. Yet, for all the importance that testing has in the SDLC, there is a misconception among many about the difference between a testing tool and a testing system. Understanding the difference is important, particularly if you're a decision-maker who is responsible for ensuring that your company's software development teams have the resou

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The basics of Parallel Execution Plans in SQL Server

SQL Shack

In this article, we will learn the basics of Parallel Execution Plans, and we will also figure out how the query optimizer decides to generate a parallel query plan for the queries. Let’s first look at how a query is executed and the role of the query optimizer in this process. When a query is […].

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Techniques To Prevent Software Bugs

Testsigma

Introduction. Creating a bug-free software is hard, to the extent that it seems like a myth. Bugs in software represent the discrepancy between the expected and actual behaviour of the software. Although it’s unrealistic to make software bug-free, efforts can surely be made to minimize the number of bugs in software through various prevention and detection techniques.

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DNS Blacklist Monitoring: Protect Your Company’s Reputation

Dotcom-Montior

Did you know that around 306 billion emails have been sent globally every day in 2020 and about 45 percent of all emails received are spam. Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Email servers tend to blacklist certain IDs as spam based on their content. And for companies marketing their business via emails, 36 percent of the total spam messages across the globe are attributed to advertising content.

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Optimize your marketing campaign investment by leveraging BizDevOps

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Marketing campaign failure because of people not working together internally, and customers left behind with a terrible experience, is more common than you think. And throughout my career, it’s something I’ve seen time and time again. The “normal” set up, is that marketers will be looking at their web-analytics solutions, whilst the IT operations team are looking at their monitoring but neither are connected or talking with one another about what is going on in each other’s team.

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Does SSL Slow Down My Site?

MachMetrics

For too long, many bloggers and site owners who weren’t handling credit card transactions on their sites resisted adding an SSL certificate to their sites. Among the reasons for this was the common myth that using SSL may slow down your website. Many were hesitant to sacrifice site speed for the added layer of security if they felt like they didn’t need it.

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Software Architecture Quality Attributes

DZone

Software projects are becoming complex, larger, more integrated, and are implemented by the use of several varieties of technologies. These various technologies need to be managed and organized to deliver a quality product. Quality attributes usually assessed and analyzed at the architecture level, not at the code level. And finally, software architecture has gained increasing visibility in the last years as the software industry has recognized the role of software architectures in maintaining h

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Why use Node.js for building web apps? Node.js Advantages & Disadvantages

Simform

Ever wondered why Node.js is the first choice when it comes to developing web apps? If yes, then you are in the right place! In this blog, we’ll walk you through node.js advantages and disadvantages and explore use cases that’ll help you understand how it can add value to your projects. The post Why use Node.js for building web apps? Node.js Advantages & Disadvantages appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.