Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

GigaOm recently released its 2024 Radar Report for Cloud Observability, which includes 21 observability solution providers and analyzes each on their current and emerging features. The report offers a better understanding of the observability landscape. The analysis centers on the following key focus areas: Dashboards and reporting User interaction performance monitoring Multicloud functionality Large language model (LLM) support Pushing and tagging data Predictive analysis Edge observability Id

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Cloud Analytics Monitoring Scalability 236

InfoQ

APRIL 9, 2024

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.

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Architecture Serverless Mobile Design 136

Percona

APRIL 9, 2024

Tech Preview release of pg_tde now availableAs organizations collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of data, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity becomes a top priority. For PostgreSQL users, the tech preview release availability of the new encryption extension pg_tde delivers unmatched protection for vital data assets.What is pg_tde?

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Open Source Database Availability Development 114

Gtmetrix

APRIL 5, 2024

We explain what Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is, how it impacts performance, and why GTmetrix doesn’t track it (yet). Overview Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is Google’s new “responsiveness” field metric that was first announced as an experimental metric in 2022.

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Metrics Google Performance 81

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “ Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is probably correct. Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance.

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Games Programming Testing Code 73

Addy Osmani

APRIL 7, 2024

Let's talk about Gemini 1.5 Pro and practical examples of what it can do. It's a mid-size multimodal model, optimized to scale across a wide range of tasks involving text, images, videos, audio, and even code. I’ll cover all of these today. The real difference here is the model's long-context window, capable of processing up to a whopping 1 million tokens in production.

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Code Processing 68

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. If you’re interested in the relevance and utility of SLOs and how they might be helpful for you, you’ve come to the right place. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. 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.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 225

Percona

APRIL 16, 2024

Percona is proud to formally state our support for the Valkey project and its community. We will soon offer commercial support for the open source Redis alternative, Valkey.The world of open source is no stranger to controversy.

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Open Source 103

Gtmetrix

APRIL 5, 2024

We explain the key differences between field and lab data and how you should interpret them. Overview Web performance metrics can be broadly classified into two distinct groups – field data and lab (synthetic data). Each dataset has a different source (i.e., where the data comes from), and is gathered using different methodologies.

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Metrics Performance 75

n0derunner

APRIL 18, 2024

How to use some of Linux’s standard tools and how different types of memory usage shows up. Examples of using malloc and writing to memory with three use-cases for a simple process In each case we run the example with a 64MB allocation so that we can see the usage from standard linux tools. We … The post Fun with Linux memory appeared first on n0derunner.

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Processing 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 8, 2024

Identifying the WordPress development company in the United States that is the ideal match for your project may be a challenging endeavor due to the vast number of options available. As there is such a wide variety of choices accessible, ranging from independent contractors to well-established organizations, it is essential to make an educated selection that is in accordance with your particular requirements and goals.

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Development Education Website Open Source 59

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

We have released Dynatrace Managed version 1.288. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.288 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.

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Engineering Performance Design Scalability 98

Percona

APRIL 11, 2024

JSON_TABLE() will be in PostgreSQL 17! It almost made it two years ago but was yanked away at the last minute. We will get it shortly when PostgreSQL 17 is officially released this year! Please see this.Why is this important?JSON has become the data interchange format of choice for most developers.

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Development 108

Percona Community

APRIL 16, 2024

Percona software releases and updates April 2 - April 17, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

Open Source 52

Open Source Scalability Database Software 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

“The economic problem of society…is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” —Friedrich A. Hayek, “ The Use of Knowledge in Society ” Silicon Valley venture capitalists and many entrepreneurs espouse libertarian values. In practice, they subscribe to central planning: Rather than competing to win in the marketplace, entrepreneurs compete for funding from the Silicon Valley equivalent of the Central Committee.

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Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 61

SQL Shack

APRIL 15, 2024

The purpose of this article is to give newbies some basic advice about SQL performance tuning that helps to improve their query tuning skills in SQL Server.

Tuning 52

Tuning Performance Servers Monitoring 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

In the ever-shifting landscape of financial markets that makes managing risk a pressing challenge, banks are facing significant turbulence. Macroeconomic trends are unfolding under a backdrop of geopolitical conflict. Firms are facing higher funding costs and softening demand due to rising interest rates. Labor trends and supply chains are unpredictable.

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Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 201

InfoQ

APRIL 17, 2024

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.

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Architecture Technology Technology Systems 57

Percona

APRIL 17, 2024

This article explains how to install the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using “context” We will show you how to set up this distribution on Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Google Cloud, and locally with k3d. You’ll also learn how to switch between these setups to test them effectively.

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AWS Google Cloud Testing 93

Percona Community

APRIL 1, 2024

Percona software releases and updates March 18 - April 2, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

Open Source 57

Open Source Scalability Database Software 57

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 3, 2024

On Friday, I sat down with Kevin Carpenter to do a short (12-min) interview about my ACCU talk coming up on April 17, and other topics. Apologies in advance for my voice quality: I’ve been sick with some bug since just after the Tokyo ISO meeting, and right after this interview I lost my voice for several days… we recorded this just in time!

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C++ 52

Kovair

APRIL 1, 2024

Get information on - The Importance of Accessibility Testing in Software Development, follow Kovair Blog for the latest information and updates on software development and information technology.

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Software Software Development Testing 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2024

We have released Dynatrace version 1.289. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.289 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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InfoQ

APRIL 10, 2024

As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.

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AWS Architecture Mobile Engineering 62

Percona

APRIL 10, 2024

February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4.Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October.Why is MongoDB 4.4 EOL significant?

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Software Software 101

n0derunner

APRIL 1, 2024

Running iperf with parallel threads TL;DR – When running iperf with parallel threads/workers the -P option must be specified after the -c <target-IP> option. This is mentioned in the manpage but some options (-t for instance) work in any order, while others (specifically the -P for parallel threads) definitely does not, which is a bit … The post Using iperf multi-stream may not work as expected appeared first on n0derunner.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. Admittedly, this is not a new topic, but I feel that it's important enough that it warrants another PSA.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 118

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience. You can now more easily see when users have poor experiences on your website, and poor UX also has a bigger impact on SEO.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 84

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2024

As digital transformation accelerates across all industries, the role of partners in fueling organizational success has never been more crucial. A strategic and intentional partner compensation strategy helps drive that success. Dynatrace believes partnerships are the backbone of innovation and growth, enabling businesses to deliver exceptional customer experiences and navigate the complexities of modern technology landscapes.

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Innovation Strategy Scalability Engineering 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Perform is our company’s event once a year in Las Vegas, where our customers and partners visit us to learn more about our product and industry. It was not my first time in Las Vegas. Therefore, the slot machines next to the baggage carousels and the bright lights that beamed into the night sky did not surprise me when I landed in this desert land’s organized chaos.

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Development Performance Airlines Healthcare 146

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. However, these practices cannot stand alone. Rather, they must be bolstered by additional technological investments to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency. One of these key investments includes observability.

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DevOps Engineering Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Percona

APRIL 9, 2024

We met with Vinicius Grippa, a Senior Support Engineer at Percona. He is also active in the open source community and was recognized as a MySQL Rock Star in 2023.In the previous interview with Vinicius, we discussed the upcoming End of Life (EOL) for MySQL 5.7. Now that MySQL 5.

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Open Source Engineering Software Software 101

Percona

APRIL 11, 2024

MySQL/MariaDB replication filter is an important feature when we need to replicate only certain databases or tables. Having this configuration option change dynamically is really convenient, but in this article, we’ll note that some replication filters are not dynamic, and you should be aware of that.

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Database 99

Percona

APRIL 1, 2024

ProxySQL recently released version 2.6.0, and going through the release notes, I focused on the following:Added support for caching_sha2_password!This is great news for the community! The caching_sha2_password authentication method for frontend connections is now available. This has been a long-awaited feature …Why?Because in MySQL 8, caching_sha2_password has been the default authentication method.

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Availability 102

Percona

APRIL 12, 2024

This short write-up focuses on a different transaction control behavior of databases. Though this is not unusual, I decided to write an article on rolling back transactions to a particular point. I selected this topic because I found many people are not aware of this feature in databases.

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Database 94

Percona

APRIL 16, 2024

We usually receive and see some questions regarding the charset levels in MySQL, especially after the deprecation of utf8mb3 and the new default uf8mb4. If you understand how the charset works on MySQL but have some questions regarding this change, please check out Migrating to utf8mb4: Things to Consider by Sveta Smirnova.

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Servers 84