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

DZone

There are many types of software testing that you can use to improve your products. 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.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Obviously, the key phrase there is ‘fully loaded’ A lot of that time is behind the scenes scripts, tracking software, advertisements, etc. However, we really want to strive to be under the benchmarks that Google sets as a best practice.

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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. What’s next?

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% Oracle Enterprise Edition. Single Database Edition Costs. $0.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7.

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