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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. Geofencing and geographic reachability testing for areas that are more challenging to access. For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area. Performance testing based on variable metrics (i.e.,

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What is continuous delivery and what are best practices for implementing it?

Dynatrace

Because development, testing, release, and deployment are all combined into a tightly coordinated process that focuses on frequent small releases, work is easier to plan and automate. CD depends on automated testing, and test pass rate helps you fine tune testing methods and improve the effectiveness of your developer feedback loop.

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Performance Optimization for Multi-Layered Cloud Native AWS Application

DZone

Performance engineering requires analysis of the performance and resiliency of each component level and the interactions between these. While there is guidance available at the technical implementation of components, e.g., for AWS API Gateway , Lambda functions, etc.,

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. For example, teams can program synthetic test tools to send large volumes of simultaneous resource requests to a new application and evaluate how well it responds. HTTP monitors.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Dynatrace

Dynatrace makes this easy by offering a collection of best-practice SLO definitions for various use cases beyond the observability domain. Many organizations often start with the service availability and performance SLOs. Another built in feature, shown in the example above, is SLO error budgets.

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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.