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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

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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Manual vs. Automated Software Testing

Apica

Manual testing and automated testing cover two vast areas. Within each category, specific testing methods are available, such as black box testing, white box testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing, and load testing. Automated testing?

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Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Our solution to modernize this legacy approach is an approach we call white box testing. In white-box testing, we combine open-source load testing tools such as JMeter with Dynatrace’s observability and analytics capabilities. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

To pass information such as Test Step Name (TSN), Load Test Name (LTN), Load Script Name (LSN), Virtual User Id (VU) and others we can follow the load testing integration best practice as documented in Dynatrace and load testing tools integration. This opens up new analytics use case to e.g:

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Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Testlodge

Market Testing Feedback – Unlike personas, market data is drawn from actual users. It is collected through analytics, A/B testing , beta testing , user acceptance testing , or a more formal market test using volunteers. It’s often the Marketing or Design team who provide personas. Conclusion.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #4: Recap with Rich Howard

Rigor

Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. Practical planning. Performance testing. Seasonal readiness testing involves both the front and back end. Stakeholder involvement.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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