Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

This bug once reported, is going to be referred to by the all other teams that need to know the status of a project, including the testing team, development team, product owner, managers, clients and business analysts. Note: In this article, we will be using defect and bug interchangeably. Example – Spelling mistakes on the webpage.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Unfortunately, email testing is often underestimated and leads to email testing mistakes that kill all your effort spent on creating a great email sequence. In this article, we’ll explain how a proper email testing workflow can help you improve email sending efficiency. Let’s talk email testing! Email template. Spam checks.

Testing 109

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

As a beginner in software testing, you would make your own mistakes and learn from them to shape your career path. Following are a few common mistakes often made by software testing beginners when they start their journey in the world of testing. Few Common Testing Mistakes. Starting without a Test Plan.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf. As most things in life, by chance.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From the moment we went live, we experienced performance issues. performance improvement can lead to a 10% increase in conversion. To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy. Plan For Performance And Measure Performance.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

If I have a node that manages only the items, another one the orders, and another one the payments, I will need to have my solution able to deal with distributed transactions, each of which needs to certify and verify other nodes’ data. Another possible case is if I am a health organization and I manage several hospitals.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

There is also the matter of convincing the management or project stakeholders to invest the time and resources into the refactoring process. In just three weeks, they’ve managed to improve the overall health of the CSS codebase, reduce the CSS file size, improve render performance on mobile, etc. “A

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain. The most common reason, by a significant margin, was difficulty finding appropriate business use cases (31% for nonusers, 22% for users). Is generative AI the answer? Perhaps not yet.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

This article summarizes what I learned from that experience. The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. For many years I've found users making the same mistakes. DBCC CHECKDB.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

To my surprise, web performance monitoring conversations rarely surface Server-Timing or cover a very shallow understanding of its application — despite it being out for many years. For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

It’s not necessarily just the sheer amount of data that is difficult to make sense of though; it’s the complexity and lack of consistency that the data usually entails which requires some filtering — such a common scenario in data grids, enterprise dashboards, vaccine tracking and public records registries. Part Of: Design Patterns.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This article is the sixth part in a series about table expressions. The empid column represents the employee ID of the subordinate (the child node), and the mgrid column represents the employee ID of the manager (the parent node). Last month in Part 5 I covered the logical treatment of nonrecursive CTEs. Employees ; GO.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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Particular Software

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article was originally published on the NDC 2016 Blog. In my 15+ years of coding, every single time I've dealt with legacy code, fear, anger, hate, and suffering were pretty common. These oversights might end up as costly mistakes later. You've managed to isolate it. Code that had duplication all over the place?

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Architecture Database Code Systems 49

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In '07, safety implied an unacceptable performance hit on slow single-core devices with 128MiB of RAM. For applications that need peak compute performance, the effective tax rate of excellent runtime security is now in the 5-10% range, rather than the order of magnitude cost a decade ago. Nobody's proposing to make native's mistakes.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. Consistency.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This is more in-depth and technical.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Statoscope processes the stats, performs analysis and provides a visual representation to interpret the results in a convenient form: ( Large preview ). Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. The best we can do is to be aware of the fundamental challenges we will face and avoid the common mistakes. So how do we find the right boundaries?

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Systems Social Media Design Media 40

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Let’s take a look at core functionality of these two relational database management systems. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo , I use it every single day. I am constantly amazed at what it offers to the web development community at large and the web performance folks particularly — for free.

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