Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Over each of the past five years, the Dynatrace security team has tasked external security firms with conducting penetration tests of our SaaS and Managed components. These tests are performed to verify the effectiveness of our security controls. However, we’re not just remediating the findings of our penetration tests.

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Testing Mobile Code Monitoring 264

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. The SQL Server Development team tasked several individuals with scalability improvements and real world testing patterns. – [link]. – [link]. Auto-soft NUMA.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. SQL Server 2016. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The result is a design for SQL Server 2016 that provides high availability for the most demanding workloads on the latest hardware with minimal impact and scalable for the future. However, if you are looking to accelerate your hardware, our Always On Availability Group design for SQL Server 2016 can keep pace. one without a replica).

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. While agile development / DevOps become mainstream nowadays, their integration with performance testing is just making first steps. – Cloud.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance DevOps 100

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Then, you will probably want to continue reading this section and test the code that I use as I revisit key unnesting examples that I previously demonstrated with derived tables and convert them to use CTEs. So, our testing confirms that SQL Server handles substitution/unnesting of CTEs just like it does for derived tables.

C++ 140

C++ Servers Code Efficiency 140

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. – Cloud.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Simform

AUGUST 2, 2021

It was during the cold January of 2016 that Google Nest Smart Thermostat had one of the epic software failures - talk about being unlucky! The incident proves that while the software development process requires meticulous planning, a testing methodology is equally crucial for delivering a quality product.

Software 40

Software Software Testing Google 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

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.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

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.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With the latest developments in IT sector services, the sector of QA testing has seen significant improvement and growth. The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Many changes are rendered through automated testing. IoT Test Automation.

Artificial Intelligence 92

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Testing Performance Engineering 100

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

A time where my waistline expands as I feast on mountains of holiday sweets and the list of books I want to the read expands just as quickly as everyone shares their favorite reads from 2016. This book is a starting point for digging into the current issues around education and our test.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40

DZone

MAY 23, 2019

Android now occupies the number one place in the global smartphone market, with a market share of 87% at the end of 2016. But the constant innovation that fuels this market has major problems in terms of the development and testing timelines. That means nine out of ten smartphones in the world run on Android.

Mobile 100

Mobile Innovation Testing Development 100

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

Thus, it’s evident that people can be accessing the same website from multiple browsers at the same time – which makes cross-browser testing very important. Another part of cross-browser testing, cross-device testing is equally important – not only because people use mobile browsers but also heavily use mobile apps.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Many organizations realize their DevOps tools and practices do not sufficiently account for security.

Code 158

Code DevOps Speed Government 158

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. One of the fundamental issues encountered during the annotation of our manually-labeled TVSM-test set, was the definition of music and speech.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

On September 29, 2016, Amazon announced the Alexa Prize , a $2.5 Teams invited to participate without sponsorship will be announced on December 12, 2016. million university competition to advance conversational AI through voice. We received applications from leading universities across 22 countries.

Entertainment 138

Entertainment AWS Engineering Testing 138

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017. Trend 1: The percentage of teams that do not automate deployment shrank from 26% in 2016 to 11% in 2017. Trend 4: More teams are enforcing full quality control (31% in 2017, up from 23% in 2016).

Software 73

Software Software Development Code 73

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. Amid so much change, teams can no longer rely on time-consuming, manual approaches for building, testing, operating, and upgrading software.

Healthcare 227

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 227

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

In this article, we will be talking about the technologies and techniques that are expected to become test automation trends in 2020. The highlights of the top test automation trends that we will be discussing in this article are: Integration of Automation of different processes to enable improved and enhanced end to end automation for eg.

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A lot of my learning and training was self-guided until 2016, when a manager at my last company took a chance on me and helped me make the rare transfer from a role in HR to Data Science. When we test new encodes, we need effective data science methods to quickly and accurately understand whether customers are having a better experience.

Analytics 223

Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 223

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

PostgreSQL wiki: here Part of a mail thread back in 2016: here An old blog located on [link] from a now-defunct company: here Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

Games 90

Games Open Source Tuning Speed 90

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

With private synthetic browser monitors, we bring the testing capabilities available in public locations right into your own environment. It took us no time and has already payed off, detecting issues during the weekend when nobody in our offices was using the tested apps. REST API testing for mobile app monitoring.

Network 156

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 156

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Then, you will probably want to continue reading this section and test the code that I use as I revisit key unnesting examples that I previously demonstrated with derived tables and convert them to use CTEs. So, our testing confirms that SQL Server handles substitution/unnesting of CTEs just like it does for derived tables.

C++ 52

C++ Servers Code Efficiency 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

As digital transformation escalates, vulnerabilities are increasing as well, by more than 290% since 2016. Shifting left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the development process, often before code is written.

Cloud 186

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 186

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. We had to assess this by testing adaptive audio switching on all Netflix supported devices. We began streaming 5.1

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

SQL Performance

JULY 27, 2021

Continuing my series of articles on latches, this time I’m going to discuss the DBCC_OBJECT_METADATA latch and show how it can be a major bottleneck for consistency checks prior to SQL Server 2016 under certain circumstances. But remember, this bottleneck only happens for versions of SQL Server earlier than SQL Server 2016.

C++ 54

C++ Servers Database Code 54

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. I couldn’t see any adverse effect on the TPS on quick tests. Attempts to compress PostgreSQL WAL at different levels have always been around since the beginning.

Database 117

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 117

SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2020

In a recent tip , I described a scenario where a SQL Server 2016 instance seemed to be struggling with checkpoint times. Kendra Little – Target Recovery Interval and Indirect Checkpoint – New Default of 60 Seconds in SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Indirect Checkpoint Default.

C++ 58

C++ Database Servers Storage 58

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. I talked about what I learned in my [SREcon 2016] keynote, and how the aims and tools differ between performance engineering and SRE performance analysis. Time flies!

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Add to this the fact that desktop devices have a lifespan between five and eight years, on average, and that the P75 device was sold in 2016. That is, what was the average device in 2016? These are depressingly similar specs to devices I recommended for testing in 2017. It sure wasn't a $2,000 M1 MacBook Pro, that's for sure.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

SQL Performance

JUNE 5, 2019

The stored procedure we will use for testing queries the aforementioned Orders and OrderLines tables based on a date range: USE [ WideWorldImporters ] ; GO. We will execute the stored procedure will three different sets of input parameters: EXEC [ Sales ] [ usp_OrderInfo_OrderDate ] '2016-01-01' , '2016-01-08' ; GO.

Servers 41

Servers Cache Database Metrics 41