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Penetration Testing: What Is the Future Technology?

DZone

APRIL 9, 2020

It is no surprise that web attacks rose by 56% in the last year alone, reports Norton's 2019 Internet Security Threat Report. It provides an insightful example: " Cybercriminals load malicious code onto retailers' websites to steal shoppers' credit card details, with 4,800+ unique websites compromised on average every month.

Technology

Technology Technology Retail Internet

7 ways to tidy up your test code

TechBeacon Testing

APRIL 25, 2019

Your test code is a mess. The bottom line is that your tests do not spark joy, as organizing guru Marie Kondo would say. You're not quite sure where anything is anymore. The fragility of it is causing your builds to fail. You're hesitant to make any changes for fear of breaking something else.

Code

Code Testing

tempdb Enhancements in SQL Server 2019

SQL Performance

AUGUST 2, 2019

From the customer side, this has been the limit of what can be done*, until SQL Server 2019. There are a few additional coding recommendations that Pam Lahoud discusses in her very informative post, TEMPDB – Files and Trace Flags and Updates, Oh My! Now that 2019 CTP 3.2 I have SQL Server 2019 CTP 3.2 Customers c ON o.

Servers

Servers C++ Testing Systems

4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

DZone

APRIL 16, 2021

Lines of code govern almost everything we do in our day-to-day activities. In 2019, according to Evans Data Corporation, there were 23.9 Introduction. Today, the demand for software is higher than ever. The way we buy, the way we sell, even the way we communicate. million developers worldwide.

Speed

Speed Software Software Metrics

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

We are explicit about our dependencies, so we know what code we need to run to run a specific component. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier.

Code

Code Performance Google Media

Terminology matters: how to enhance user experience by aligning names with expectations

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To improve the naming of our navigation menu entries, we will soon conduct A/B testing for one of the main entry points to the Dynatrace navigation menu. When testing it, one of our many findings was that developers and devops do not necessarily expect profiling to be included under ” diagnostic tools” as they are now.

Java

Java Tuning Testing DevOps

Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are two different approaches to GraphQL development; schema-first and code-first development. The code in your service only implements this schema. With code-first development , you don’t have a schema file. Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code.

Open Source

Open Source Java Architecture Metrics

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automating lifecycle orchestration including monitoring, remediation, and testing across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. Example #1 – Deploy application code to Kubernetes.

Software

Software Software Open Source Azure

Cómo mejorar la performance de una web usando lazy-loading y code-splitting

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Code Splitting y CSS-in-JS : cómo CSS-in-JS nos permite extender el code-splitting y lazy-loading a CSS, SVGs y otros recursos. Aquí estoy cargando una página de test (puedes ver el código fuente aquí ) usando la función “Fetch as Google” de Google Webmaster Tools. La solución se basa en code splitting.

Code

Code Google Media Performance

Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. Reference software serves as the basis for standard development, a framework, in which the performance of video coding tools is evaluated. New Netflix Buildings in Los Gatos. What is SVT-AV1?

Open Source

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency

Mobile app automation testing Tools: An exhaustive list

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Simform (as of 2019) stated that an average user has at least 40 apps installed on their phones while millennials have around 67 apps. So, there’s a solid reason why mobile app testing is a crucial step in any app development process. To ensure our users get a seamless experience across any device — we perform mobile app testing. .

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source

Connecting MongoDB to Ruby with Self-Signed Certificates for SSL

Scalegrid

JUNE 18, 2019

servers.mongodirector.com:27017/test?replicaSet=RS-example-0&ssl=true" To keep the example simple, we have specified the connection string and the cert file path directly in the code snippet – you would generally either put them in a yaml file or specify them as environment variables. default: admin) auth_source: test.

C++

C++ Servers Database Network

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing.

Website

Website Mobile Testing Strategy

Netflix Public Bug Bounty, 1 year later

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

We love it when researchers reach out to coordinate testing on an issue. We looked at the endpoint and determined that there was no risk of access to Netflix internal data, so we allowed the researcher to continue testing. Given the potential impact, we asked the researcher to stop further testing.

Entertainment

Entertainment Programming Internet Internet

PyMongo Tutorial: Testing MongoDB Failover in Your Python App

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

We often undertake testing of failover characteristics of various MongoDB drivers to qualify them for production use cases, or when our customers ask us for advice. Testing Failover Behavior. You can test the resilience of your applications by inducing failovers while your workload runs. servers.mongodirector.com:27017 (X.X.X.X)

Testing

Testing Network Database Servers

Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

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

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing

Dynatrace incorporates Hackerone’s bug bounty program into its security playbook

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

Parts of our SSDLC include: Daily code-level security scans at the time of ongoing development. Secure code reviews by team members with great expertise in avoiding security pitfalls. Internal penetration tests before new features are released. Annual external penetration tests that cover the entire product.

Programming

Programming Games Website Software

Part 2: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This blog continues with more examples of Dynatrace’s Monitoring as Code (Monaco) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) release validation using Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation. Example #3 – Automate Monitoring configuration as code. Below is a picture illustrating the use case of using Monaco as part of a code delivery pipeline.

Software

Software Software Open Source DevOps

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

[link] Metaflow is a full-stack framework for data science that we started developing at Netflix over four years ago and which we open-sourced in 2019. It allows data scientists to define ML workflows, test them locally, scale-out to the cloud, and deploy to production in idiomatic Python code. just to complement them.

Open Source

Open Source Monitoring Scalability Code

Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. Test Environment. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Each test result represents the best of ten runs, with all required data and index pages in memory. Batch Mode on Row Store (BMOR).

Servers

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency

6 test automation tools developers love

TechBeacon Testing

JANUARY 23, 2019

Establishing a whole-team approach to testing in all phases of the software development lifecycle can be challenging. Even when testers use development-centric languages and IDEs to create automated tests, many developers still resist the notion of having to test their own code.

Development

Development Testing Code Software

Resolve performance incidents faster with Dynatrace Real User Monitoring for SAP GUI (GA)

Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in October 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP real user monitoring. Aggregated T-code scorecards give you immediate insights (for example, the slowest performing T-code) so you always know where to look first. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance Infrastructure Network

Reducing High CPU on MySQL: a Case Study

Percona

MARCH 7, 2019

In other words, the time the CPU was executing user code, such as MySQL. 2019-02-22T18:26:25 Creating triggers. 2019-02-22T18:27:14 Created triggers OK. 2019-02-22T18:27:14 Copying approximately 4924071 rows. clients`: 94% 00:24 remain 2019-02-22T18:34:15 Copied rows OK. 2019-02-22T18:34:15 Analyzing new table.

C++

C++ Traffic Servers Monitoring

Islands T-SQL Challenge

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2022

Use the following code to create a table called T1 and populate it with a small set of sample data: SET NOCOUNT ON ; USE tempdb ; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo. To test the performance of your solution, you’ll need to populate the table with larger volumes of sample data. In my performance test, it took this solution 3.68

C++

C++ Strategy Testing Servers

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

I worked on providing code-level insights for Java and.NET services and applications before shifting gears and joining the OpenTelemetry community back in May 2019. This entails prioritizing the roadmap, conducting code reviews, and submitting code contributions. years ago.

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java

The challenge is on! Community call for creating the fastest number series generator

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In a comment to my article, Marcos Kirchner mentioned that he tested my solution with varying table value constructor cardinalities, and got different execution times for the different cardinalities. Testing different base table cardinalities is just one dimension to try. Let’s proceed to performance testing.

C++

C++ Servers Testing Processing

Watchman: monitoring dependency conflicts for Python library ecosystem

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Adding a direct dependency to pin a version, even when it’s not truly a direct dependency of the project (another code smell!). The authors backtested Watchman by replaying the evolution history of all libraries on PyPI from the 1st January 2017 to the 30th June 2019.

Monitoring

Monitoring Java C++ Strategy

AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

There have also been colorful conversations about whether GPT-3 can pass the Turing test, or whether it has achieved a notional understanding of consciousness, even amongst AI scientists who know the technical mechanics. Note that the dataset on which GPT-3 trained terminated around October 2019. Among other things. Prompt Engineering.

Social Media

Social Media Media Internet Internet

Matching Supply With Demand — Solutions, Part 1

SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

Use the following code to create the table and populate it with a small set of sample data: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo. ( ID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY ( 1 , 1 ) CONSTRAINT pk_Auctions PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED , Code CHAR ( 1 ) NOT NULL. Auctions ( ID , Code , Quantity ) VALUES. ( Auctions. (

Code

Code Servers Performance Azure

Which Is the Best PostgreSQL GUI? 2019 Comparison

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Procedural language debugger helps you to debug your code. In DBeaver, you can generate fake data that looks like real data allowing you to test your systems. 2019 Comparison Click To Tweet. It can detect bugs in your code immediately and suggest the best options to fix them as well. pgAdmin uses too many resources.

Open Source

Open Source Database Azure Cloud

A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. The amount of code isn’t huge, but it still feels like a little bit more effort than it should be. However, beyond that it didn’t really solve the problem.

Operating System

Operating System Google Website Cache

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. That community spans expertise and industries, putting diverse skill sets and fresh perspectives into the review and improvement of code. Then those tools have to be configured and tested to work together.

Open Source

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database

Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 2

SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

For the time being, let’s look at some examples using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14. [ text ] LIKE '%SomeValue%Test%'. Behaviours are maintained to avoid breaking legacy code. I’ll cover the reasons for the guessing later in the series. CLEAR PROCEDURE_CACHE ; GO. CLEAR PROCEDURE_CACHE ; GO.

Cache

Cache Servers Database Testing

Role of No-code/Low-code testing tools for Modern Agile QA teams

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

Low-code/no-code tools are already becoming a mainstay for many global teams. By going no-code/low-code, teams can now fill in the gap between the accelerating demands of application delivery and team skill sets. Agile Testing and the challenge of going faster. The world is entering a new age of technology.

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Code Testing Speed

Chrome DevTools - 20+ Tips and Tricks

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. The Chrome DevTools can greatly improve your workflow by helping you develop, test, and debug your websites right within your browser. You can easily change the formatting of your minimized code by clicking on {}.

Google

Google Website Network Media

The challenge is on! Community call for creating the fastest number series generator

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In a comment to my article, Marcos Kirchner mentioned that he tested my solution with varying table value constructor cardinalities, and got different execution times for the different cardinalities. Testing different base table cardinalities is just one dimension to try. Let’s proceed to performance testing.

C++

C++ Servers Testing Processing

SQL Server on Linux: How is Delete-On-Close Handled

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 31, 2018

Update Oct 2018 – SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0. SQL Server 2019 changes the DELTE On CLOSE behavior used on Linux installations. I changed the code to call unlink after open completes preventing new access to the file. I even tested the following scenario. Linux VM mounted location on a Windows UNC path open and unlink.

Servers

Servers Software Engineering Systems Monitoring

Big Project Build Times–Chromium

Randon ASCII

MARCH 30, 2020

My test builds took up to 6.2 I did my tests on an October 2019 version of Chromium’s code because that gave me the most flexibility about which build options to use. The graph below shows the relationship between the number of lines of code in source files and how long it took to compile them. More on that later.

C++

C++ Code Open Source Programming

How to solve the testing challenges that come with serverless apps

TechBeacon Testing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

You can just throw code at the cloud and have an application. Serverless technologies can go a long way toward helping organizations with certain application needs avoid the complexity of infrastructure management. But implementing serverless apps has consequences.

Serverless

Serverless Testing Infrastructure Cloud

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

USENIX Security Symposium 2019. There are four main parts to the story here: The testing environment that runs apps in a ‘honeypot’ and figures out which of those apps are leaking data they don’t have permission to obtain. 50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al.,

Systems

Systems Traffic Network Google

Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

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. This enables us to replace the paper trails and middlemen that we use to verify and audit truth with code. Or a bonus could be automatically released if the shipment arrives early.

Blockchain

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet

Are You Sorted? Tips Concerning T-SQL Window Ordering

SQL Performance

MAY 11, 2022

You can download the source code to create and populate this database here. I ran all the examples on SQL Server ® 2019 Developer, where batch-mode on rowstore is available. The following code implements a view based on this recommendation: CREATE OR ALTER VIEW dbo. Environment for Demos. I’ll remind you at the end.

C++

C++ Database Servers Code

How to add your database to HammerDB – Pt3 Adding to and modifying the source

HammerDB

JULY 17, 2019

From the previous post we now have source and binary copies of HammerDB for modification and test. Copying the modified source to the binary directories enables testing. After modifying the graphical options we can then update and test the TPC-C schema build and tests in mariadb/mariaoltp.tcl. and timed test.

Database

Database C++ Testing Metrics

AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

AV1 is the royalty-free video coding format that has most tech experts believing it is the next step in media compression. was released and approved in February of 2019 and is therefore ready to be used in production. The Future of AVIF AVIF is still in the early and experimental stages of existence in 2019. AVIF version 1.0.0

Media

Media Internet Internet Speed

Penetration Testing: What Is the Future Technology?

7 ways to tidy up your test code

Trending Sources

tempdb Enhancements in SQL Server 2019

4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Terminology matters: how to enhance user experience by aligning names with expectations

Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Cómo mejorar la performance de una web usando lazy-loading y code-splitting

Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

Mobile app automation testing Tools: An exhaustive list

Connecting MongoDB to Ruby with Self-Signed Certificates for SSL

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Netflix Public Bug Bounty, 1 year later

PyMongo Tutorial: Testing MongoDB Failover in Your Python App

Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

Dynatrace incorporates Hackerone’s bug bounty program into its security playbook

Part 2: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow

Finding Distinct Values Quickly

6 test automation tools developers love

Resolve performance incidents faster with Dynatrace Real User Monitoring for SAP GUI (GA)

Reducing High CPU on MySQL: a Case Study

Islands T-SQL Challenge

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

The challenge is on! Community call for creating the fastest number series generator

Watchman: monitoring dependency conflicts for Python library ecosystem

AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

Matching Supply With Demand — Solutions, Part 1

Which Is the Best PostgreSQL GUI? 2019 Comparison

A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 2

Role of No-code/Low-code testing tools for Modern Agile QA teams

Chrome DevTools - 20+ Tips and Tricks

The challenge is on! Community call for creating the fastest number series generator

SQL Server on Linux: How is Delete-On-Close Handled

Big Project Build Times–Chromium

How to solve the testing challenges that come with serverless apps

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

Are You Sorted? Tips Concerning T-SQL Window Ordering

How to add your database to HammerDB – Pt3 Adding to and modifying the source

AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

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