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Dynatrace news. Modern service infrastructure depends heavily on IT’s ability to dynamically scale the number of hosts up or down, depending on the expected workload. MORE
Dynimize, a dynamic binary optimizer, has been shown to improve MySQL performance in CPU intensive workloads. This post explores how Dynimize can be used to instantly reduce MySQL CPU usage without altering a single line of your application code or my.cnf. MORE
Jim Keller recently gave a fascinating and far ranging interview on the AI Podcast. You can find it at Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles. One of the many topics of discussion was the often predicted death of Moore's Law. MORE
In part 1 of this series, I tried out a few ways to compress a 1TB table. While I got decent results in my first attempt, I wanted to see if I could improve the performance in part 2. MORE
Dynatrace news. Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more). MORE
This article is the third installment in a series on NULL complexities. In Part 1 I covered the meaning of the NULL marker and how it behaves in comparisons. In Part 2 I described the NULL treatment inconsistencies in different language elements. MORE
By Liwei Guo , Vivian Li , Julie Beckley , Venkatesh Selvaraj , and Jeff Watts Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app. AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. MORE
Jen Simmons explains how to improve image loading by simply using width and height attributes. The issue is that there’s a lot of jank when an image is first loaded because an img will naturally have a height of 0 before the image asset has been successfully downloaded by the browser. MORE
In a MySQL master-slave high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take corrective actions. In this blog post, we explain some basic health checks you can do on your MySQL master and slave nodes to ensure your setup is healthy. MORE
Let’s encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web , Aas et al., CCS’19. MORE
Over recent years, the term APM has become increasingly used by lots of vendors and tools. Some refer to it as Application Performance Monitoring and some as Application Performance Management. But what is the difference? MORE
POTS: Protective optimization technologies , Kulynych, Overdorf et al., arXiv 2019. With thanks to @TedOnPrivacy for recommending this paper via Twitter. MORE
C10K problem is a term that stands for ten thousand concurrently handling connections. MORE
By Liwei Guo , Vivian Li , Julie Beckley , Venkatesh Selvaraj , and Jeff Watts Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app. AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. MORE
Who's Hiring? Are you looking to improve how you hire technical talent ? Essilen Research 's free video series can help. Fix common issues in screening, interviewing, closing and on-boarding. Learn how world-class tech companies crush the hiring game! MORE
We’ve seen many of the technological advances described in the Star Trek milieu become reality over the last 50 years, from personal communication devices and instant translators to GMOs, medical robots, 3D printing and weapons that stun. But, ah yes, the matter transporter. MORE
If a whole server becomes unresponsive, you need to know what kind of web activity caused it, and quickly. Application Performance Management, or APM, gives you this visibility, and more. APM tools monitor and manage user experiences in software applications. MORE
Cloudy with a high chance of DBMS: a 10-year prediction for enterprise-grade ML , Agrawal et al., CIDR’20. "Cloudy MORE
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Visualize the huge scale of Deep Time by identifying key reference points along the way. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon Stuff won't happen. MORE
The other day I was auditing a site and ran into a pattern that I’ve seen with a few different clients now. MORE
Who's Hiring? Are you looking to improve how you hire technical talent ? Essilen Research 's free video series can help. Fix common issues in screening, interviewing, closing and on-boarding. Learn how world-class tech companies crush the hiring game! MORE
Essential Suite?—?Artwork Artwork Producer Assistant By: Hamid Shahid & Syed Haq Introduction Netflix continues to invest in content for a global audience with a diverse range of unique tastes and interests. MORE
Quality Assurance (QA) is at the point of inflection and it is an exciting time to be in the field of QA as advanced digital technologies are influencing QA practices. MORE
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: A network visualization of an information operation on Twitter which originated in Russia ( Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Your support on Patreon is appreciated more than you can know. MORE
Dynatrace news. Traditionally, it’s critical for Dev and Ops teams to be able to quickly discover and remediate application performance and customer-facing issues. MORE
Dynatrace news. The timeframe selector is one of the most widely used UI controls in Dynatrace. MORE
Dynatrace news. Deployment of OneAgent is really easy. You just run the installer—no parameter configurations required—and OneAgent takes care of the rest. MORE
Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? What types of devices and connections should I test on? Which third parties should I be most concerned about? How fast should I be? MORE
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace helps you monitor hyper-complex environments where tribal knowledge about entities and their relationships isn’t sufficient. To achieve this, Dynatrace provides important components such as OneAgent and ActiveGate. MORE
Dynatrace news. Autonomous Cloud is not another lofty marketing term. Autonomous Cloud is what enables our globally distributed development teams at Dynatrace to deliver better software faster following our NoOps approach: Fully Autonomous and as a Self-Service! MORE
There is a growing number of things that we have to do to help the browser achieve for peak performance. Responsive image syntax has several. For example, needing to tell the browser how large the image will be in our layout with the sizes attribute and how big the images are with w descriptors. MORE
Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service , Sreekanti et al., arXiv 2020. Today’s paper choice is a fresh-from-the-arXivs take on serverless computing from the RISELab at Berkeley, addressing some of the limitations outlined in last year’s ‘ Berkeley view on serverless computing.’ MORE
In a MySQL master-slave high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take corrective actions. In this blog post, we explain some basic health checks you can do on your MySQL master and slave nodes to ensure your setup is healthy. MORE
This is the second article that describes how to test asynchronous operations with the Byteman framework in an application using the Spring framework. MORE
Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. MORE
Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. IEEE, 1980. Today’s paper came highly recommended by Kevlin Henney and Nat Pryce in a Twitter thread last week, thank you both! MORE
Dynatrace news. In Part 1 of this blog series , we presented a few Dynatrace customer use cases for multidimensional analysis. MORE
Introduction. With the world moving towards digital transformation, there has been a rising focus on software testing. Digital transformation is inevitable, as the use of the latest digital technologies can make your business operations effective and creative. performance software testing quality assurance best practice test automation framework MORE
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Dynatrace news. Modern service infrastructure depends heavily on IT’s ability to dynamically scale the number of hosts up or down, depending on the expected workload.
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
In a MySQL master-slave high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take corrective actions. In this blog post, we explain some basic health checks you can do on your MySQL master and slave nodes to ensure your setup is healthy.
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DZone
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
We’ve seen many of the technological advances described in the Star Trek milieu become reality over the last 50 years, from personal communication devices and instant translators to GMOs, medical robots, 3D printing and weapons that stun. But, ah yes, the matter transporter.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Dynatrace news. Traditionally, it’s critical for Dev and Ops teams to be able to quickly discover and remediate application performance and customer-facing issues.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
In a MySQL master-slave high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take corrective actions. In this blog post, we explain some basic health checks you can do on your MySQL master and slave nodes to ensure your setup is healthy.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Essential Suite?—?Artwork Artwork Producer Assistant By: Hamid Shahid & Syed Haq Introduction Netflix continues to invest in content for a global audience with a diverse range of unique tastes and interests.
DZone
JANUARY 31, 2020
C10K problem is a term that stands for ten thousand concurrently handling connections.
Technology Performance Pulse brings together the best content for technology performance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Jim Keller recently gave a fascinating and far ranging interview on the AI Podcast. You can find it at Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles. One of the many topics of discussion was the often predicted death of Moore's Law.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
By Liwei Guo , Vivian Li , Julie Beckley , Venkatesh Selvaraj , and Jeff Watts Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app. AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member.
DZone
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Quality Assurance (QA) is at the point of inflection and it is an exciting time to be in the field of QA as advanced digital technologies are influencing QA practices.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Dynatrace news. The timeframe selector is one of the most widely used UI controls in Dynatrace.
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Cloudy with a high chance of DBMS: a 10-year prediction for enterprise-grade ML , Agrawal et al., CIDR’20. "Cloudy
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Visualize the huge scale of Deep Time by identifying key reference points along the way. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon Stuff won't happen.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
By Liwei Guo , Vivian Li , Julie Beckley , Venkatesh Selvaraj , and Jeff Watts Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app. AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member.
DZone
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
This is the second article that describes how to test asynchronous operations with the Byteman framework in an application using the Spring framework.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
Dynatrace news. Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more).
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: A network visualization of an information operation on Twitter which originated in Russia ( Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Your support on Patreon is appreciated more than you can know.
Tim Kadlec
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The other day I was auditing a site and ran into a pattern that I’ve seen with a few different clients now.
DZone
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Dynimize, a dynamic binary optimizer, has been shown to improve MySQL performance in CPU intensive workloads. This post explores how Dynimize can be used to instantly reduce MySQL CPU usage without altering a single line of your application code or my.cnf.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Dynatrace news. Autonomous Cloud is not another lofty marketing term. Autonomous Cloud is what enables our globally distributed development teams at Dynatrace to deliver better software faster following our NoOps approach: Fully Autonomous and as a Self-Service!
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. IEEE, 1980. Today’s paper came highly recommended by Kevlin Henney and Nat Pryce in a Twitter thread last week, thank you both!
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Who's Hiring? Are you looking to improve how you hire technical talent ? Essilen Research 's free video series can help. Fix common issues in screening, interviewing, closing and on-boarding. Learn how world-class tech companies crush the hiring game!
CSS - Tricks
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
There is a growing number of things that we have to do to help the browser achieve for peak performance. Responsive image syntax has several. For example, needing to tell the browser how large the image will be in our layout with the sizes attribute and how big the images are with w descriptors.
DZone
JANUARY 31, 2020
If a whole server becomes unresponsive, you need to know what kind of web activity caused it, and quickly. Application Performance Management, or APM, gives you this visibility, and more. APM tools monitor and manage user experiences in software applications.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Dynatrace news. Deployment of OneAgent is really easy. You just run the installer—no parameter configurations required—and OneAgent takes care of the rest.
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Let’s encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web , Aas et al., CCS’19.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Who's Hiring? Are you looking to improve how you hire technical talent ? Essilen Research 's free video series can help. Fix common issues in screening, interviewing, closing and on-boarding. Learn how world-class tech companies crush the hiring game!
CSS - Tricks
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Jen Simmons explains how to improve image loading by simply using width and height attributes. The issue is that there’s a lot of jank when an image is first loaded because an img will naturally have a height of 0 before the image asset has been successfully downloaded by the browser.
DZone
JANUARY 31, 2020
Over recent years, the term APM has become increasingly used by lots of vendors and tools. Some refer to it as Application Performance Monitoring and some as Application Performance Management. But what is the difference?
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Dynatrace news. In Part 1 of this blog series , we presented a few Dynatrace customer use cases for multidimensional analysis.
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service , Sreekanti et al., arXiv 2020. Today’s paper choice is a fresh-from-the-arXivs take on serverless computing from the RISELab at Berkeley, addressing some of the limitations outlined in last year’s ‘ Berkeley view on serverless computing.’
SQL Performance
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
In part 1 of this series, I tried out a few ways to compress a 1TB table. While I got decent results in my first attempt, I wanted to see if I could improve the performance in part 2.
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? What types of devices and connections should I test on? Which third parties should I be most concerned about? How fast should I be?
DZone
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Introduction. With the world moving towards digital transformation, there has been a rising focus on software testing. Digital transformation is inevitable, as the use of the latest digital technologies can make your business operations effective and creative. performance software testing quality assurance best practice test automation framework
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace helps you monitor hyper-complex environments where tribal knowledge about entities and their relationships isn’t sufficient. To achieve this, Dynatrace provides important components such as OneAgent and ActiveGate.
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
POTS: Protective optimization technologies , Kulynych, Overdorf et al., arXiv 2019. With thanks to @TedOnPrivacy for recommending this paper via Twitter.
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