Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Continuous testing validation Gala Dvoretskaya, senior principal for digital experience at Dynatrace, discussed how observability enables continuous testing validation to support a seamless release process. Using Dynatrace Workflows , users can execute a variety of different tests after the successful deployment of new releases.

Engineering 176

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 176

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data observability is crucial to analytics and automation, as business decisions and actions depend on data quality. In the age of AI, data observability has become foundational and complementary to AI observability, data quality being essential for training and testing AI models.

DevOps 190

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 190

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. To observe model drift and accuracy, companies can use holdout evaluation sets for comparison to model data.

Cache 199

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 199

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. Typical applications are interacting with different database servers based on the business logic. Careful consideration must be given before making changes.

Java 130

Java Network Servers Database 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

Best Practices 85

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 85

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

AWS Certified Database – Specialty: Database specialists with deep knowledge of relational and non-relational databases and some AWS experience might want to check out this certification. Data analytics. Take a trial test at Linux Academy if it’s applicable to the cert you have in mind.

AWS 202

AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 202

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics.

Performance 204

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 204

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. This article discusses one measure to prevent these kinds of errors, known as destructive testing. What is Destructive Testing? Next, you test for.bmp and.png file types to make sure they are not accepted.

Systems 81

Systems Testing Software Software 81

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source 77

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 77

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Shifting left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the development process, often before code is written. Shift right refers to testing software in real-world production conditions to ensure it can hold up under load. Only 27% of those CIOs say their teams fully adhere to a DevOps culture.

Cloud 180

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 180

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Automation works great, especially in case of smoke and regression tests and helps the QA teams to easily create and execute test cases that are complex in nature. Test Script Issues. Fixing Code Smell.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Gone are the days when automation testers had to learn coding to write test scripts. Enter codeless automation testing, which is one of the latest software trends to look out for.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Testing Analytics Mobile 52

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL do the basics very well From a high level, one relational database management system is pretty much like every other relational database management system. It does not follow the SQL Standard as closely as other databases, and some useful functions such as MERGE() are missing.

Database 119

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 119

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

Monitoring 96

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 96

Percona

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Some of these joins are only available natively in some relational databases; for the sake of simplicity, we will only consider the most widely used open-source databases in this blog- MySQL and PostgreSQL. IS NULL; test=# SELECT A.id, B.id, A.val, B.val FROM A LEFT JOIN B ON A.id = B.id WHERE B.id WHERE B.id WHERE A.id

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Monitoring Testing 91

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Shifting from monolith to microservices makes it easier to test, develop, and release innovative features more rapidly. Generally speaking, monolithic architecture is composed of three parts: Database. This is usually a relational database management system. Easier to test. Better testing. Server-side application.

Architecture 189

Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 189

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 1, 2021

Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone. In fact, there are many types of tests and perhaps that is where some of the initial fear or confusion comes from. Integration.

Testing 95

Testing Performance Testing Website Code 95

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Using Test My Site from Think with Google : Gives you an estimation of potential revenue increase for your site when saving loading time. It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. Screenshot of Google's Test My Site page.

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Testsigma

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Software Testing has changed a lot! Earlier, manual testing ruled the world of testing, however, test automation increasingly became a reality in most organizations developing software. Testing continued to evolve, and it took advantage of technology innovations. Traditional test automation: What is it?

Artificial Intelligence 54

Artificial Intelligence Testing Healthcare Innovation 54

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. Any time you run a test with WebPageTest, you’ll get this table of different milestones and metrics. See entry 6.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

HammerDB

JULY 14, 2021

However, as the two databases diverged from a shared common codebase, this presented a challenge in that it was not possible to modify the workload for MySQL or MariaDB without also changing the other. Also, the additional installation of the MySQL client libraries was needed when testing MariaDB. Prior to HammerDB v4.2 HammerDB v4.2

Testing 57

Testing C++ Virtualization Tuning 57

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study. References. Vander-Zaden, H.M. Cormode, S.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Testsigma

MAY 7, 2020

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. The test data management for the company had become a big problem and had to be solved. What is test data?

Testing 60

Testing Storage Database Processing 60

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

Engineering 188

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 188

Percona

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 7, 2023.

Open Source 82

Open Source AWS Servers Database 82

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Containers are portable, self-contained operating environments that include applications and the dependencies they need to run, such as databases, middleware, and frameworks. Organizations can combine cloud-native services to build applications with unique value enabled by the cloud, such as advanced analytics, mobile apps, and chatbots.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It is very common to have large resource-hungry databases separated across nodes using anti-affinity rules. A particular problem occurs when a reporting / analytical workload shares storage with a transactional workload. We supply a pre-configured scenario which we call the DB Colocation test. Time based benchmark actions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Benchmarking Testing Performance 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 6, 2020

Writing applications for streaming analytics can be complex and time consuming. If a user signals the app that he or she has tested positive, the app successively notifies chained contacts until all connected users have been notified. This application cannot be implemented by most streaming analytics platforms.

Development 52

Development Analytics Database Programming 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 6, 2020

Writing applications for streaming analytics can be complex and time consuming. If a user signals the app that he or she has tested positive, the app successively notifies chained contacts until all connected users have been notified. This application cannot be implemented by most streaming analytics platforms.

Development 52

Development Analytics Database Programming 52

Testsigma

JUNE 15, 2021

We’ve come quite far in terms of automation testing too. As per QA Lead’s survey , globally 87% of companies have moved to agile or agile-like methodologies; the same survey shows that 78% of companies are automating their functional and regression tests. Now, here’s a million-dollar question: Can automation testing still evolve?

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Mobile Testing Tools 52

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was pretty optimistic that I’d truly have impressive numbers to share but as it turns out, while there is a potential for significant advantage, a detailed testing regime of the CITUS columnar store extension should be carried out before implementing them into your own environment. The missing sizzle. OLTP vs OLAP. Let’s get back to basics.

Database 91

Database Analytics Storage Processing 91

Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

MySQL is an outstanding open source transactional database used by most web-based applications and is very good at handling OLTP workloads. However, modern business is very much dependent on analytical data. ClickHouse is a columnar database that handles analytical workloads quickly. 1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.007 sec.

Engineering 85

Engineering Database Servers Analytics 85