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Mergeable replicated data types Kaki et al., OOPSLA’19. This paper was published at OOPSLA, but perhaps it’s amongst the distributed systems community that I expect there to be the greatest interest. MORE
Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. MORE
Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., Preprint. A recent TwThread drew my attention to this pre-print paper. When spreadsheets were originally conceived, data and formula were input by hand and so everything operated at human scale. MORE
Which language do you use for test automation? There is always a lot of uncertainty around which programming language to use when starting a new test automation project. Should you go with the same language that the development team is using? MORE
Unit testing is actually a lot like working out. You have a well- established, stable development team. They are veterans and quite experienced. You feel there’s nothing they can’t solve or achieve, even if it takes some time, they’ll manage, whether if it’s a bug or a feature. MORE
A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM Bittman et al., PLOS’19. At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. If you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it. MORE
Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. Easily measure and manage user experience with more flexible Apdex calculations. Next generation Dynatrace Davis AI becomes the default causation engine. Build apps your customers love and grow your business with Dynatrace mobile monitoring. Latest management zone update improves collaboration for Synthetic Monitoring. Save build time and make life easier with the new Android auto-instrumentation. MORE
Dynatrace news. To make user management easier for our customers, we’ve improved the invitation workflow and made it simpler to see which groups a user is assigned to. Resend invitation. MORE
Enterprises are going through decisive digital transformation to achieve speed and accuracy to stay ahead of the market. With the evolution of digital technologies at. Test Management Test Automation MORE
Dynatrace news. Kubernetes automatically validates the health of your pods within your k8s cluster, by continuously evaluating the health end-points (livenessProbe and readinessProbe) of your deployed services. MORE
Dynatrace news.Net. Added support for MongoDB.NET Driver 2.8 – 2.9. Added support for Microsoft Azure Service Bus Client for.NET 3.2.0 – 4.0.0.Net Core. Added support for MongoDB.NET Driver 2.8 – 2.9. Added support for Microsoft Azure Service Bus Client for.NET 2.0.0 – 4.0.0. Added support for MongoDB PHP for Linux 1.3+. Operating systems. Current support changes. Current OneAgent support changes. MORE
With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. MORE
Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., OOPSLA’19. Given non-volatile memory (NVRAM), the naive hope for persistence is that it would be a no-op: what happens in memory, stays in memory. MORE
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace enables authentication through your organization’s identity provider (IdP). If you want to use your organization’s corporate credentials for authentication in Dynatrace, you can set up SAML to delegate authentication to your IdP. MORE
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In a MySQL 5.7 master-slave setup that uses the default semisynchronous replication setting for rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point , a crash of the master and failover to the slave is considered to be lossless. However, when the crashed master comes back, you may find that it has transactions that are not present in the current master (which was previously a slave). MORE
The closer you look at something, the more interesting it gets. That’s probably why I love it when I’m able to pore through large amounts of data related to a topic that interests me. MORE
After blogging about how filtered indexes could be more powerful , and more recently about how they can be rendered useless by forced parameterization , I'm revisiting the filtered indexes/parameterization topic. A seemingly-too-simple solution came up at work recently, and I had to share. MORE
In an article, An overview of the SQL table variable, we explored the usage of SQL table variables in SQL Server in comparison with a temporary table. Let’s have a quick recap of the table variable: We can define a table variable and use it similar to a temporary table with few differences. MORE
NULL handling is one of the trickier aspects of data modeling and data manipulation with SQL. Let's start with the fact that an attempt to explain exactly what a NULL is is not trivial in and of itself. MORE
MachMetrics is a premium site speed monitoring tool used by #webperf enthusiasts worldwide. We have always offered a free plan to those who are happy with a few website tests per day. However we’re now announcing a new premium free plan for open source projects or non-profits. Do you run an open source project? Are you in charge of an open source project? We love that you’ve giving back to the community and we want to give back you. MORE
Designing applications that extract real-time insights from streaming telemetry can be a daunting challenge. Event streams typically combine messages from many data sources, as shown below. It’s a complex challenge to select and analyze messages that surface patterns of interest. MORE
Mergeable replicated data types – part II Kaki et al., OOPLSA ’19. MORE
Dynatrace news. To enhance your customers’ digital experiences, you need to see your application through their eyes. Every single click your end users make while using your application provides valuable insights into how well your application is performing and meeting your customers’ needs. MORE
A tale of two abstractions: the case for object space , Bittman et al., HotStorage 2019. MORE
TLA+ model checking made symbolic Konnov et al., OOPSLA’19. TLA+ is a formal specification language ( T emporal L ogic of A ctions) particularly well suited to reasoning about distributed algorithms. MORE
Learn how to keep your apps performing! For some time, there has been a new competitor in the field of persistence and serialization. We are talking about Project MicroStream. What is it exactly? MORE
Monitor and profile your Spring Boot application! You may also like: Monitoring Using Spring Boot 2.0, Prometheus, and Grafana (Part 1 — REST API). MORE
ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users. MORE
Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. MORE
Who's Hiring? Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. MORE
I confess, I’m not a statistician. While I pride myself on the 'A' I received in my college statistics class, admittedly it was on a pretty steep curve. MORE
Julie (Novak) Beckley, Andy Rhines, Jeffrey Wong, Matthew Wardrop, Toby Mao, Martin Tingley Ever wonder why Netflix works so well when you’re streaming at home, on the train, or in a foreign hotel? MORE
Wait.what is Monkey Testing? You may also like: Introduction to the World of Mobile Application Testing. What Is Monkey Testing? MORE
I find behavioral economics fascinating. Many economists assume rational behavior among all people and it results in economic models that seem good in theory, but end up being completely inaccurate. Humans aren’t 100% rational and the real decisions we make are difficult to account for. MORE
by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Get started at metaflow.org. Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. MORE
Website testing. We know the excitement when it comes to launching your first web site. After working hard on the stunning design, user interface, and engaging content, you cannot wait to share it with the audience. Are you sure your website is completely ready to launch? MORE
Find out more about Mule 4! Sometimes when you work for a bigger client you will get a problem that is different than regular issues you get. I will talk about such a scenario in this article. Earlier we were directly polling on one location and getting data in the form of the files. MORE
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Dynatrace news. To make user management easier for our customers, we’ve improved the invitation workflow and made it simpler to see which groups a user is assigned to. Resend invitation.
DZone
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Learn how to keep your apps performing! For some time, there has been a new competitor in the field of persistence and serialization. We are talking about Project MicroStream. What is it exactly?
DZone
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Monitor and profile your Spring Boot application! You may also like: Monitoring Using Spring Boot 2.0, Prometheus, and Grafana (Part 1 — REST API).
Scalegrid
DECEMBER 9, 2019
In a MySQL 5.7 master-slave setup that uses the default semisynchronous replication setting for rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point , a crash of the master and failover to the slave is considered to be lossless. However, when the crashed master comes back, you may find that it has transactions that are not present in the current master (which was previously a slave).
The Netflix TechBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app.
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
TLA+ model checking made symbolic Konnov et al., OOPSLA’19. TLA+ is a formal specification language ( T emporal L ogic of A ctions) particularly well suited to reasoning about distributed algorithms.
DZone
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Website testing. We know the excitement when it comes to launching your first web site. After working hard on the stunning design, user interface, and engaging content, you cannot wait to share it with the audience. Are you sure your website is completely ready to launch?
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Dynatrace
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace enables authentication through your organization’s identity provider (IdP). If you want to use your organization’s corporate credentials for authentication in Dynatrace, you can set up SAML to delegate authentication to your IdP.
The Netflix TechBlog
DECEMBER 3, 2019
by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Get started at metaflow.org. Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding.
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Mergeable replicated data types – part II Kaki et al., OOPLSA ’19.
High Scalability
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Who's Hiring? Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Dynatrace news. To enhance your customers’ digital experiences, you need to see your application through their eyes. Every single click your end users make while using your application provides valuable insights into how well your application is performing and meeting your customers’ needs.
The Netflix TechBlog
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Julie (Novak) Beckley, Andy Rhines, Jeffrey Wong, Matthew Wardrop, Toby Mao, Martin Tingley Ever wonder why Netflix works so well when you’re streaming at home, on the train, or in a foreign hotel?
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
Mergeable replicated data types Kaki et al., OOPSLA’19. This paper was published at OOPSLA, but perhaps it’s amongst the distributed systems community that I expect there to be the greatest interest.
DZone
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Unit testing is actually a lot like working out. You have a well- established, stable development team. They are veterans and quite experienced. You feel there’s nothing they can’t solve or achieve, even if it takes some time, they’ll manage, whether if it’s a bug or a feature.
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 14, 2019
With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020.
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Dynatrace news. Kubernetes automatically validates the health of your pods within your k8s cluster, by continuously evaluating the health end-points (livenessProbe and readinessProbe) of your deployed services.
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 11, 2019
I confess, I’m not a statistician. While I pride myself on the 'A' I received in my college statistics class, admittedly it was on a pretty steep curve.
The Morning Paper
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., OOPSLA’19. Given non-volatile memory (NVRAM), the naive hope for persistence is that it would be a no-op: what happens in memory, stays in memory.
DZone
DECEMBER 11, 2019
performance qa quality assurance openjdk testing and qa adoptopenjdk
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly.
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. Easily measure and manage user experience with more flexible Apdex calculations. Next generation Dynatrace Davis AI becomes the default causation engine. Build apps your customers love and grow your business with Dynatrace mobile monitoring. Latest management zone update improves collaboration for Synthetic Monitoring. Save build time and make life easier with the new Android auto-instrumentation.
SQL Performance
DECEMBER 11, 2019
NULL handling is one of the trickier aspects of data modeling and data manipulation with SQL. Let's start with the fact that an attempt to explain exactly what a NULL is is not trivial in and of itself.
The Morning Paper
DECEMBER 10, 2019
A tale of two abstractions: the case for object space , Bittman et al., HotStorage 2019.
DZone
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Wait.what is Monkey Testing? You may also like: Introduction to the World of Mobile Application Testing. What Is Monkey Testing?
ScaleOut Software
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Designing applications that extract real-time insights from streaming telemetry can be a daunting challenge. Event streams typically combine messages from many data sources, as shown below. It’s a complex challenge to select and analyze messages that surface patterns of interest.
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Dynatrace news.Net. Added support for MongoDB.NET Driver 2.8 – 2.9. Added support for Microsoft Azure Service Bus Client for.NET 3.2.0 – 4.0.0.Net Core. Added support for MongoDB.NET Driver 2.8 – 2.9. Added support for Microsoft Azure Service Bus Client for.NET 2.0.0 – 4.0.0. Added support for MongoDB PHP for Linux 1.3+. Operating systems. Current support changes. Current OneAgent support changes.
Tim Kadlec
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The closer you look at something, the more interesting it gets. That’s probably why I love it when I’m able to pore through large amounts of data related to a topic that interests me.
The Morning Paper
DECEMBER 8, 2019
A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM Bittman et al., PLOS’19. At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. If you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it.
DZone
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Find out more about Mule 4! Sometimes when you work for a bigger client you will get a problem that is different than regular issues you get. I will talk about such a scenario in this article. Earlier we were directly polling on one location and getting data in the form of the files.
SQL Performance
DECEMBER 3, 2019
After blogging about how filtered indexes could be more powerful , and more recently about how they can be rendered useless by forced parameterization , I'm revisiting the filtered indexes/parameterization topic. A seemingly-too-simple solution came up at work recently, and I had to share.
Professor Beekums
DECEMBER 1, 2019
I find behavioral economics fascinating. Many economists assume rational behavior among all people and it results in economic models that seem good in theory, but end up being completely inaccurate. Humans aren’t 100% rational and the real decisions we make are difficult to account for.
Kovair
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Enterprises are going through decisive digital transformation to achieve speed and accuracy to stay ahead of the market. With the evolution of digital technologies at. Test Management Test Automation
The Morning Paper
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., Preprint. A recent TwThread drew my attention to this pre-print paper. When spreadsheets were originally conceived, data and formula were input by hand and so everything operated at human scale.
DZone
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Which language do you use for test automation? There is always a lot of uncertainty around which programming language to use when starting a new test automation project. Should you go with the same language that the development team is using?
SQL Shack
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
In an article, An overview of the SQL table variable, we explored the usage of SQL table variables in SQL Server in comparison with a temporary table. Let’s have a quick recap of the table variable: We can define a table variable and use it similar to a temporary table with few differences.
MachMetrics
DECEMBER 14, 2019
MachMetrics is a premium site speed monitoring tool used by #webperf enthusiasts worldwide. We have always offered a free plan to those who are happy with a few website tests per day. However we’re now announcing a new premium free plan for open source projects or non-profits. Do you run an open source project? Are you in charge of an open source project? We love that you’ve giving back to the community and we want to give back you.
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