Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2024

In all seriousness, the shift-left mantra has shaken things up quite a bit in the tech industry, bringing a paradigm shift in how we approach software development. The shift-left approach aims to ensure bugs and other issues are discovered and addressed early in the development process, leading to improved software quality and lower costs associated with late-stage troubleshooting.

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Development Software Software Tuning 205

Percona

APRIL 16, 2024

Percona is proud to formally state our support for the Valkey project and its community. We will soon offer commercial support for the open source Redis alternative, Valkey.The world of open source is no stranger to controversy.

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Open Source 106

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

With the introduction of Flexible Identity Federation, Dynatrace gives its enterprise customers additional options that offer enhanced granularity to match their more complex scenarios. Scaling with Flexible Identity Federation Identity federation plays a critical role in modern IT infrastructure, serving as a foundational component that enables seamless, secure access to various systems and applications across different domains and platforms.

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Strategy Scalability Infrastructure Systems 251

InfoQ

APRIL 9, 2024

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.

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Architecture Serverless Mobile Design 136

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. Admittedly, this is not a new topic, but I feel that it's important enough that it warrants another PSA.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 118

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience. You can now more easily see when users have poor experiences on your website, and poor UX also has a bigger impact on SEO.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, incorporating AI innovation into business strategies is vital, enabling organizations to optimize operations, enhance decision-making processes, and stay competitive. The annual Google Cloud Next conference explores the latest innovations for cloud technology and Google Cloud. This year, Google’s event will take place from April 9 to 11 in Las Vegas.

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Gtmetrix

APRIL 5, 2024

We explain what Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is, how it impacts performance, and why GTmetrix doesn’t track it (yet). Overview Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is Google’s new “responsiveness” field metric that was first announced as an experimental metric in 2022.

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Metrics Google Performance 81

Percona

APRIL 9, 2024

Tech Preview release of pg_tde now availableAs organizations collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of data, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity becomes a top priority. For PostgreSQL users, the tech preview release availability of the new encryption extension pg_tde delivers unmatched protection for vital data assets.What is pg_tde?

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Open Source Database Availability Development 114

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “ Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is probably correct. Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance.

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Games Programming Testing Code 73

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

GigaOm recently released its 2024 Radar Report for Cloud Observability, which includes 21 observability solution providers and analyzes each on their current and emerging features. The report offers a better understanding of the observability landscape. The analysis centers on the following key focus areas: Dashboards and reporting User interaction performance monitoring Multicloud functionality Large language model (LLM) support Pushing and tagging data Predictive analysis Edge observability Id

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Cloud Analytics Monitoring Scalability 236

InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.

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Engineering Performance Design Scalability 98

Gtmetrix

APRIL 5, 2024

We explain the key differences between field and lab data and how you should interpret them. Overview Web performance metrics can be broadly classified into two distinct groups – field data and lab (synthetic data). Each dataset has a different source (i.e., where the data comes from), and is gathered using different methodologies.

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Metrics Performance 75

Percona

APRIL 11, 2024

JSON_TABLE() will be in PostgreSQL 17! It almost made it two years ago but was yanked away at the last minute. We will get it shortly when PostgreSQL 17 is officially released this year! Please see this.Why is this important?JSON has become the data interchange format of choice for most developers.

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Development 108

Addy Osmani

APRIL 7, 2024

Let's talk about Gemini 1.5 Pro and practical examples of what it can do. It's a mid-size multimodal model, optimized to scale across a wide range of tasks involving text, images, videos, audio, and even code. I’ll cover all of these today. The real difference here is the model's long-context window, capable of processing up to a whopping 1 million tokens in production.

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Code Processing 68

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Government agencies aim to meet their citizens’ needs as efficiently and effectively as possible to ensure maximum impact from every tax dollar invested. As part of this mission, there is a drive to digitize services across all areas of government so citizens can meet their own needs faster and with greater convenience. To address this, state and local governments are adopting multicloud environments to achieve the necessary speed, scale, and agility to keep up with faster digital transformation

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Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 209

InfoQ

APRIL 17, 2024

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.

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Architecture Technology Technology Systems 57

n0derunner

APRIL 18, 2024

How to use some of Linux’s standard tools and how different types of memory usage shows up. Examples of using malloc and writing to memory with three use-cases for a simple process In each case we run the example with a 64MB allocation so that we can see the usage from standard linux tools. We … The post Fun with Linux memory appeared first on n0derunner.

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Processing 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2024

This article explains how to install the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using “context” We will show you how to set up this distribution on Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Google Cloud, and locally with k3d. You’ll also learn how to switch between these setups to test them effectively.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 8, 2024

Identifying the WordPress development company in the United States that is the ideal match for your project may be a challenging endeavor due to the vast number of options available. As there is such a wide variety of choices accessible, ranging from independent contractors to well-established organizations, it is essential to make an educated selection that is in accordance with your particular requirements and goals.

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Development Education Website Open Source 59

InfoQ

APRIL 10, 2024

As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.

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AWS Architecture Mobile Engineering 62

Percona Community

APRIL 16, 2024

Percona software releases and updates April 2 - April 17, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

Open Source 52

Open Source Scalability Database Software 52

Percona

APRIL 10, 2024

February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4.Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October.Why is MongoDB 4.4 EOL significant?

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Software Software 101

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

“The economic problem of society…is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” —Friedrich A. Hayek, “ The Use of Knowledge in Society ” Silicon Valley venture capitalists and many entrepreneurs espouse libertarian values. In practice, they subscribe to central planning: Rather than competing to win in the marketplace, entrepreneurs compete for funding from the Silicon Valley equivalent of the Central Committee.

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Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 61

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. If you’re interested in the relevance and utility of SLOs and how they might be helpful for you, you’ve come to the right place. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. The second part delves into the approach to be adopted with SLOs based on a client’s context and environment, considering whether SLAs (Service Level Agreements) have already been historically defined.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 225

SQL Shack

APRIL 15, 2024

The purpose of this article is to give newbies some basic advice about SQL performance tuning that helps to improve their query tuning skills in SQL Server.

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Tuning Performance Servers Monitoring 52

Percona Community

APRIL 1, 2024

Percona software releases and updates March 18 - April 2, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

Open Source 57

Open Source Scalability Database Software 57

Percona

APRIL 9, 2024

We met with Vinicius Grippa, a Senior Support Engineer at Percona. He is also active in the open source community and was recognized as a MySQL Rock Star in 2023.In the previous interview with Vinicius, we discussed the upcoming End of Life (EOL) for MySQL 5.7. Now that MySQL 5.

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Open Source Engineering Software Software 101

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 3, 2024

On Friday, I sat down with Kevin Carpenter to do a short (12-min) interview about my ACCU talk coming up on April 17, and other topics. Apologies in advance for my voice quality: I’ve been sick with some bug since just after the Tokyo ISO meeting, and right after this interview I lost my voice for several days… we recorded this just in time!

C++ 52

C++ 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

The last decade brought a wave of digital transformation that accelerated the move towards cloud-native tech, specifically Kubernetes. We could talk about this move’s benefits (and downsides!) for more than a few blogs, but that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to talk about the less savory side of cloud-native transformation—you know, all the things that can go wrong.

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Virtualization Cloud Infrastructure Code 228

Kovair

APRIL 1, 2024

Get information on - The Importance of Accessibility Testing in Software Development, follow Kovair Blog for the latest information and updates on software development and information technology.

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Software Software Development Testing 52

n0derunner

APRIL 1, 2024

Running iperf with parallel threads TL;DR – When running iperf with parallel threads/workers the -P option must be specified after the -c <target-IP> option. This is mentioned in the manpage but some options (-t for instance) work in any order, while others (specifically the -P for parallel threads) definitely does not, which is a bit … The post Using iperf multi-stream may not work as expected appeared first on n0derunner.

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C++ Network 40

Percona

APRIL 11, 2024

MySQL/MariaDB replication filter is an important feature when we need to replicate only certain databases or tables. Having this configuration option change dynamically is really convenient, but in this article, we’ll note that some replication filters are not dynamic, and you should be aware of that.

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Database 99

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2024

I’ve mentioned before that one of my hobbies is lapidary work. I hunt for stone, cut it, shape it, sand it, polish it, and turn it into artistic things. I enjoy doing this work for a lot of reasons, not least of which being I approach it every day not with an expectation of “what am I going to complete” but “what am I going to learn.” As a learning exercise, it is fantastic.

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FinTech Education Testing Website 40

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. In fact, more than half of organizations use Kubernetes in production. While Kubernetes is often considered the operating system of the cloud, the scale and complexity of Kubernetes cluster deployments are creating new challenges for IT teams.

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Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 226

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

We have released Dynatrace Managed version 1.288. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.288 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

In the fast-paced world of technology, leadership roles present both opportunities to innovate and unique challenges, particularly for women. For me, working in tech has brought flexibility and continuous learning. As a mother of two children, this flexibility helps me manage my home and team in tandem. Meanwhile, the rapidly evolving technical landscape encourages me to learn new skills and forces me to stay on my toes.

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Technology Technology Innovation 206