The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

In this post, Kevin talks about his extensive experience in content analytics at Netflix since joining more than 10 years ago. What keeps me engaged and enjoying data engineering is giving super-suits and adrenaline shots to analytics engineers and data scientists. Hadoop was being lightly tested, but only in a few high-scale areas.

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Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Big Data 189

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.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Various testing activities take place throughout the software development lifecycle, including compatibility testing, which is a non-functional testing technique. Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This methodology combines software design, development, automation, operations, and analytics to boost customer experience, increase application security, and reduce downtime that affects business outcomes. Autonomous testing. As teams develop software more quickly, they can’t rely on manual methods to test applications.

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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. Shift-right ensures reliability in production.

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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 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In general, most websites or web apps run into errors because of a solitary reason: solid cross-browser testing isn’t performed. When you perform cross-browser testing, you validate visual elements and ensure all functional and non-functional aspects of the website are consistent across different browsers.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. While the Speed Update won’t be in effect until July 2018, there are steps that companies can take now to make sure they are not penalized.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

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.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Testing And Monitoring. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. Bulk Mobile Friendly Test by Experte.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

The technology lets people learn about solutions by typing questions into a search bar, such as, “How do I import and export test cases between my environments?” GPTs can also help quickly onboard team members to new development platforms and toolsets. and “What’s the best way to integrate this solution with my toolchain?”

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Innovation Software Software Artificial Intelligence 260

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Establishing clear, consistent, and effective quality gates that are automatically validated at each phase of the delivery pipeline is essential for improving software quality and speeding up delivery. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 183

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of the metrics produced when you run a test using webpagetest.org is called Speed Index and it changed the way I thought about web performance. Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading.

Speed 40

Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For example, your payment history might be on one database cluster and your analytics records on another cluster. If your analytics server is down, then each operation will wait for a default of 30 seconds before failing (which may or may not be what you want). Modifying this setting does affect performance.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 26, 2021

We’re sure you’ve heard your DevOps team often talk about test orchestration. This testing approach has quickly become a crucial element of test automation because it streamlines the automation process. What is Test Orchestration? What are the Benefits of Test Orchestration? Source: PhoenixNap.

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Testing Strategy DevOps Testing Tools 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While some employees are focused on expert-led learning followed by certification, others simply need to get up to speed quickly through microlearning courses. Every year at Perform, we put DTU to the test with hands-on learning and certifications. Here, they needed a blended learning approach. Get started with Dynatrace University.

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Virtualization Education Cloud Monitoring 200

MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

These days everyone knows the importance of front-end site testing and has some basic tools in place to help them – but how do you know if your testing efforts are ideal? From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders.

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Website Testing Speed Website Performance 49

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. And don’t forget about covering your back with tests.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is where unified observability and Dynatrace Automations can help by leveraging causal AI and analytics to drive intelligent automation across your multicloud ecosystem. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By following key log analytics and log management best practices, teams can get more business value from their data. Challenges driving the need for log analytics and log management best practices As organizations undergo digital transformation and adopt more cloud computing techniques, data volume is proliferating.

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Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 243

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. You should not only monitor the backup mount for disk space and backup log but also regularly test the restores and log to match RPO and RTO objectives.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

Up until now we have been measuring performance through other metrics, mostly using the Navigation Timing API , which is also what Google Analytics uses for their Site Speed report. length ; i ++ ) & # 123 ; // Process entries. // report back for analytics and monitoring. //. & const metricName = entry. round ( entry.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For example, log data, which can include personal data, should have a shorter retention period when used to troubleshoot and debug performance issues in your testing environment (compared to log data used for audit logs) because the data might not be needed after a few days.

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Storage Healthcare Best Practices Speed 166

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Simply performing eyeball analytics by looking at multiple dashboards slows down the quality evaluation process and introduces a higher risk of failures. However, another of the common SLO pitfalls is that many organizations assemble these metrics manually using disparate tools, which can take time from innovation.

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DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 196

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

In the People space, our data teams contribute to consolidated systems of record on employees, contractors, partners and talent data to help central teams manage headcount planning, reduce acquisition cost, improve hiring practices, and other people analytics related use-cases. Can we measure the impact of Inclusion and Diversity initiatives?

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

These excellent tools are built for purpose, such as planning, design, development, testing, service desk and so on, and enable specialists teams to do their jobs more efficiently and collaboratively. The post Architect your software delivery value stream for speed and quality with integration patterns appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. This frustration is hardwired, as you can learn in this post about the psychology of site speed and human happiness.)

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Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 81

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. I’ve another more dramatic example, closer to home to share, but first a little more background.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Google Analytics can show us individual slow pages, but doesn’t necessarily help us build a bigger picture of the site as a whole. See entry 6. Gathering Data.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

Image taken from the Chrome 60 blog post , which first appeared in “Web Performance: Leveraging the Metrics that Most Affect User Experience” at Google I/O 2017 Up until now we have been measuring performance through other metrics, mostly using the Navigation Timing API , which is also what Google Analytics uses for their Site Speed report.

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