Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Excerpt from Serverless First deck published in 2019 In contrast to commentary along the lines that Amazon got it wrong, the team followed what I consider to be the best practice. The result isn’t a monolith, but there seems to be a popular trigger meme nowadays about microservices being over-sold, and a return to monoliths.

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DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Find out more about JavaScript testing! The web has evolved a lot in the last few years, and we have observed this evolution with our eyes. From having limited programming languages to getting access to a hub of languages for testing, the web has come a long way.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

ACM is the culmination of our best practices and learning that we share every day with our customers to help them automate their enterprise, innovate faster, and deliver better business ROI. Cloud native” is not just architecture; it also means bringing cloud-centric best practices to software and IT generally.

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TechBeacon Testing

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Test automation technologies and best practices are changing so rapidly that it can be hard to keep up. Fortunately, you'll find a tight community of test automation pros out there who regularly share tips and insights on Twitter.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The results in Figure 12 reflect what we know of the cloud market and mirror what we found in our cloud native survey from earlier in 2019. That respondents are paying close attention to serverless reflects a software architecture “best practice:” the need to understand every approach, even those that don’t apply.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in May 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP monitoring extension. Dynatrace news. This extends Dynatrace visibility into SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. Best practices for container security. Here is a checklist of best practices for how to approach container security. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular. Pretty neat, isn’t it?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. Automating lifecycle orchestration including monitoring, remediation, and testing across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). GitHub and GitHub Actions. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As a best practice, if you know that an attribute is not supposed to allow NULLs, make sure you enforce it with a NOT NULL constraint as part of the column definition. As an example, suppose that you need to query the Sales.Orders table in the TSQLV5 sample database, and return orders that were shipped on January 2 nd , 2019.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

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. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% Comparison Overview.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Vitaly Friedman.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We had our first Studio applications consuming the federated graph, without any performance degradation, by the end of the 2019. We engaged with them to determine graph schema best practices to best suit the needs of Studio Engineering. Our goal was to open up the Studio Edge platform for self-service in April 2020.

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Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

We’re happy to announce the General Availability of cross-environment dashboarding capabilities (having released this functionality in an Early Adopter release with Dynatrace version 1.172 back in June 2019). For this reason, using management zones is the best practice in order to segment/limit dashboard tiles when viewing remote information.

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Availability Best Practices Monitoring Network 178

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. SAST tools identify problematic coding patterns that go against best practices. Using the standard DevOps graphic, good application security should span the complete software development lifecycle.

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TechBeacon Testing

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Many organizations that have implemented agile development practices are struggling to derive full value from them because of a variety of factors, including a slowness to jettison conventional approaches and a failure to adopt best practices.

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Best Practices Testing Development Open Source 11

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Despite the slow rate of adoption, Java’s six-month release cadence has been trucking along—Java 12 dropped in March 2019, with Java 13 following in September. 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. Or do people just not know about the benefits of 11 in containers?”

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Dynatrace configuration API , helps many Dynatrace customers implement and gain the benefits of this best practice for their Dynatrace configurations such as alerting rules, synthetic scripts, dashboards, and SLO monitors. Example #4 – Automated release validation.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. One is general technology advice on the state of the art in development practices, along the lines of the Cloud for CEOs booklet I published for AWS in 2019.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

2019-05-06T13:30:59+02:00. 2019-05-06T11:34:08+00:00. The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img This is a best practice only if you do it only to secondary images — typically for the ones will be displayed below the fold. <img

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Description: Infant characters as in my paper “ Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and aging readers — 2019 fourth edition.”. Measurement: Numerical score based on the number of characters and symbols. Robert Hillier’s Sylexiad Serif Medium. Large preview ).

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fix is of course to terminate the statement preceding the CTE definition, but as a best practice, you really should be terminating all of your statements: SELECT custid , country FROM Sales. If this is intended to be a common table expression, you need to explicitly terminate the previous statement with a semi-colon.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Thanks for reading, and if you’d like to learn more, you may want to read more on video best practices here, on Smashing Magazine, and on my blog: Video Playback On The Web: The Current State Of Video (Part 1). Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2). Hiding Videos On the Mobile Web. (vf,

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

From of our learnings on how we integrated Dynatrace into our DevOps toolchain , we advise our customers to follow our best practices around integrating delivery tools with Dynatrace, enforcing Dynatrace-based quality gates, implementing monitoring as code or automate remediation based on Dynatrace problems.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

However, in 2019, the expectation for a good user experience is now higher than ever. 6 Ways to Optimize Your eCommerce Conversion Rate Below we’ve outlined 6 methods you should implement to increase your eCommerce conversion rate in 2019. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

— Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices. Caching best practices & max-age gotchas. Cache-Control Header Builder – 2019.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Sitting in the second half of 2019, we see a new chapter unfolding of the blockchain story as early enterprise adopters transition pilots into production. While there’s still not clarity or established best practices, more teams are making the choice to learn about and invest in the technology.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. It is best practice to assume many real-world users won’t be using an iPhone 12, but rather a mid-level device on a mid-level network.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It’s been just over a week since this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas came to a close. At DOES 2019, it will evident that people are starting to see the need to apply those same principals across the whole value stream from ideation to production. When you find new ways to measure, you find new ways to innovate.

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. This is the time at which you develop and roll out training, documentation, best practices, and standards the organization can embrace. has increased by 73%.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

(They seem to have learned from their mistakes for Prime Day 2019.). And Nordstrom dealt with crashes and other issues at the beginning of its popular anniversary sale in 2019. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. The numbers tell the story – planning is essential.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. But with Firefox due to begin support for it in version 65 (due in January 2019), it’s only a matter of time before remaining stragglers like Safari catch up. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Jack Lenox.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2019 and was updated in September 2023. Best Practices for Charset and Collation Optimization Optimizing charset and collation settings in MySQL involves careful planning and execution to ensure compatibility, efficiency, and long-term maintenance. In this case, MySQL 8.0

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Understanding Subresource Integrity.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

USENIX Security Symposium 2019. While sanitization is always a best practice and should be applied at every opportunity, it is by no means a perfect defense. The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al.,

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Amazon even provides an official recommendation (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

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