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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

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? I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Increased testing complexity. Software as a service (SaaS) delivers on-demand applications.

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Notes on: 'Performance Culture' at Google I/O 2014

Tim Kadlec

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Test across devices to experience what your users are experiencing. Not testing on multiple devices can cost much more than the cost of building a device lab. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users.

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Master Apache JMeter. From Load Testing to DevOps

Alex Podelko

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

Testsigma

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture. AI and Machine learning-based testing.

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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. Likewise, attacks on open source libraries have increased.

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