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18 Types of Software Testing You Need to Use for Higher Quality Products

DZone

That means software testing spending is up 13% from 2017. More and more companies are realizing that it’s not enough to build good software, it needs to be rigorously examined, benchmarked, and verified. How Much of a Company's Budget Is Spent on Quality Assurance and Testing? A whopping 39% globally this year.

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. However, we really want to strive to be under the benchmarks that Google sets as a best practice. Even better if you’re under Google’s best practice benchmark. What is the number of resources I should stay under? Mobile is still the top priority.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) Since then, the stock price has increased more than 600%.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.