The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Microsoft launched the fully managed Azure service for performance test engineers and developers to perform high scale load testing called Azure Load Testing, currently in preview mode. Let us see whether Azure Load Testing fulfills our needs or not in this blog post. But the catch is PRICING.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This step is crucial as this environment is used for the final validation and testing phase before the code is released into production. Furthermore, augmenting test coverage to mirror the scenarios encountered in production is imperative. This stage ensures the code meets the required quality standards before it goes live.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

Through load testing , businesses may determine how well their system performs under typical and predicted peak loads, ensuring that it can withstand the demands of actual usage. We will discuss the concept of load testing in this blog article, as well as its significance and practical application to ensure optimum performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2023

On Tuesday, January 3, 2023, at 15:26 UTC, we experienced an interruption of Dynatrace’s Single Sign On (SSO) service, preventing our customers from logging into their Dynatrace Software as a Service (SaaS) environments and other Dynatrace portals. The post Services Incident Update appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

The second part delves into the approach to be adopted with SLOs based on a client’s context and environment, considering whether SLAs (Service Level Agreements) have already been historically defined. Further in this article, we will explore which empirical approach to adopt in order to best align with the Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform accelerates cloud operations, helping organizations achieve service-level objectives (SLOs) with automated intelligence and unmatched scalability. AL2023 is supported by Dynatrace on day one and has been thoroughly tested by our installations team. How does Dynatrace help?

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DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There are over 50+ tools and solutions available in the market for performance testing your application and services. Now it is time to check out Ddosify, a high-performance load testing tool that offers free and commercial features to test web applications and services over HTTP(S), HTTP/2, and other protocols are on their way.

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Abstracta

APRIL 23, 2024

Load Test vs. Stress Test. This is one of the most frequent topics that people look at when developing a performance testing strategy. But, in fact, it doesn’t make sense to compare performance testing vs load testing as if they were competitors. Yet, understanding the.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

These tasks collectively ensure uninterrupted production service. A few avenues for elevating CI/CD pipelines are: Enhancing the extent of automated test coverage during the testing phase. Identifying and automating the validation of business/application Service Level Objectives (SLOs) during release cycles.

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Abstracta

APRIL 22, 2024

Join us as we delve into the scope of API load testing. In this article, we explore how to simulate real-world conditions, tackle testing challenges, choose the right performance testing tools, and interpret results for performance optimization. Enhance your API’s readiness for diverse load scenarios.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Today’s story is about how the Keptn development team is using Dynatrace during development and load-testing. We were in the process of developing a new feature and wanted to make sure it could handle the expected load behavior. Then we ran the load-tests again. It happened in June 2020. Hurray, we broke it!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter.

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DZone

AUGUST 10, 2023

End-to-end ( E2E ) testing plays a vital role in verifying the behavior of a software system in simulated real-world user scenarios. I will also outline a step-by-step process to organize and conduct E2E testing for e-commerce applications. What Is End-To-End Testing?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services. Logs complement out-of-the-box metrics and enable automated actions for responding to availability, security, and other service events.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You can monitor delivery groups, VDAs, catalogs, delivery controllers, broker services, and license status through easy-to-use dashboards, which can be used as a starting point. Or (less likely) with F5 BigIP load balancer. Visibility into load balancer performance is essential when you’re responsible for application delivery.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

That means you need to test your website to identify optimizations. Large preview ) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) The Largest Contentful Paint metric is the closest thing to a traditional load time measurement. However, LCP doesn’t track a purely technical page load milestone like the JavaScript Load Event.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Davis AI makes sure that data is used in the context set up by Smartscape , a real-time, dynamic dependency map that visualizes all application components, and OneAgent , a single agent that provides a set of specialized services that have been configured specifically for your monitoring environment. Data privacy and end-to-end security.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. or 99.99% of the time. or 99.99% availability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Additionally, it can enable the creation of templates from these configurations, which teams can easily share between projects and services. And when issues are detected, the SLOs affected and the team with ownership over that service becomes visible, allowing for increased accountability and a faster fix time. Dynatrace® Clouds app.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. In the U.S.,

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

You may have seen over the past few months we have been extensively promoting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as part of our Open Source project Keptn. The earlier in the lifecycle we ensure SLIs meet their SLOs the better it will to ensure these service levels in production ”.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

Organizations are being challenged, but also seizing the opportunity, to digitally transform their businesses with better customer experiences and new and competitive services, to increase business value. By 2023, over 500 million digital apps and services will be developed and deployed using cloud-native approaches. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Benefits of RUM include the following: Access to data from real end users across various applications, services, and environments. Real user monitoring limitations.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

The Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Qatar provides these immigration services online for their residents via their mobile app, Metrash. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load. Step 1: Detect the problematic service endpoint.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For AWS Lambda, the largest contributor to startup latency is the time spent initializing an execution environment, which includes loading function code and initializing dependencies. It also baselines the performance of an application under load, including response times, error rates, and behavior. What is Lambda?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Akamas vision is that only an autonomous optimization approach powered by AI can effectively enable performance engineers, SREs, and architects to identify the best configurations that ensure maximum service performance and resilience, at the lowest possible cost and at business speed. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Well, yes and no. Open Source.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

In some cases, this meant testing my scripted methodology hundreds of times before deploying to production in order to catch every nuance and condition that could affect the result. If it responds with HTTP error code ranging 4xx or 5xx, pull it out of the load balancer pool and tell a System Administrator to manually check it for issues.”.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Two weeks ago, we experienced a service interruption with our SSO service. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing. This is in active development and testing now, and we anticipate this being completed by the end of Q1. This has been completed.

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DZone

MAY 9, 2021

For the people using Azure Service Bus namespaces, we often have the need to ensure the Azure Service Bus Performance by testing our system integration by generating some test messages on the Azure Service Bus resources. You might need this for QA/Development for performance testing, load testing, etc.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. micro) The tests We will have very simple test cases. CPU load while ProxySQL is at 2.50

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” What are quality gates? Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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