Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2022

While SSO has been available for Dynatrace Cloud Automation since day one, the latest update enables Dynatrace user management for RBAC in the Cloud Automation module—it’s now possible to define, for example, an admin with full permissions, a user with elevated permissions, or a user with basic view permissions.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. In the U.S.,

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance. The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. What’s the Big Problem? Avoid using @import in your CSS files.

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Network Performance Media Cache 278

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

There was a rather heated discussion around A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton (referred below as the article and the authors – other references would be explicit). and Open letter to “CDT Test Automation” reviewers as well as in many other different places.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Notebooks are a perfect tool to understand and perform an in-depth analysis of AWS AppFabric logs, thanks to the powerful Dynatrace query language, DQL. However, with Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) we can perform much more complex queries on our OCSF logs. Note that AWS AppFabric is available in the US East (N.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. This is what this blog is all about.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 193

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

This information is curated from the expert microservices material available on our online learning platform. Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Continue reading Microservices: A quick and simple definition.

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

In this blog post, I’m going to present a new functionality that is available in MyDumper and will be available in the next release: we added the possibility to build random data based on a format that the user defines. Masquerade was one of these features, but it was only for integer and UUID values. How does it work?

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Testing C++ Open Source Database 110

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

A trivial performance optimisation to help speed up third-party or other-origin requests is to preconnect them: hint that the browser should preemptively open a full connection ( DNS , TCP , TLS ) to the origin in question, for example: In the right circumstances, this simple, single line of HTML can make pages hundreds of milliseconds faster !

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Speed Network Analytics Availability 234

Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Robotic Process Automation and Test Automation are two confusing terms in testing processes. Similar to TDD and BDD processes, RPA and test automation seem like a single branch of the test segment which is common to be exchanged in communication during planning. The word “automation” seems to be a culprit in this case.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

This helps SRE teams quickly mitigate issues by turning off poorly-performing features, enabling features for specific subsets of end-users, or performing side-by-side A/B feature testing. Feature flag solutions currently use proprietary SDKs with frameworks, definitions, and data/event types that are unique to their platforms.

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Java Cloud Code Technology 259

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Modern applications—enterprise and consumer—increasingly depend on third-party services to create a fast, seamless, and highly available experience for the end-user. API monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing data about the performance of an API in order to identify problems that impact users. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Testlodge

MARCH 21, 2023

What’s the difference between Black Box and White Box Testing? When looking at black box vs white box testing, the main difference between them is the type of product information the tester will access. Black box testing focuses on the requirements to ensure the system responds as expected, according to the documentation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. You run load tests monitored with Dynatrace and you want to automatically validate to eliminate the manual analysis effort.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. You have one gold coin.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. As two examples, Roman Ferstl of Triscon noted that observability-driven DevOps has helped clients achieve 15x more tests with 10x more apps tested.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. What is a performance budget? Here are mine.

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Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the case of InnoDB tablespaces, this information is incorporated into the tablespace itself, creating a fusion of metadata and data primarily to enhance performance. This helps improve the performance of metadata retrieval and management for InnoDB tables. Let’s test it with InnoDB using the ibd2sdi tool. In MySQL 8.0,

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Storage Database Engineering Open Source 98

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. In 2010, the Performance and Reliability team I was fortunate enough to lead at Walmartlabs shared our findings around the impact of front-end times on conversion rates.

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Percona

APRIL 11, 2023

Indexes are crucial for optimizing query execution times in databases, but having an excessive number of indexes, or redundant ones, can negatively impact performance. In this blog post, we’ll put ourselves to the test and see if we can identify duplicate and redundant indexes in MySQL.

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Database Open Source Testing Design 94

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Deployment frequency.

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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? Thomas Bohm.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. But for many queries, there is lots of helpful content available. You should get in touch.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Testing it (subjectively or objectively) also depends on the context — which can be very tricky. Let’s dive into the specifics of typeface aspects so you can get the best out of your tests.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Variability and complexity. But let’s not just concede failure to complexity again. Let’s move past it. Getting a grip on user intentions.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. Those tests get executed from two locations (Paris and London) hosted by different cloud vendors (Azure & AWS).

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cross-browser testing is performed to be sure that your product is working as expected on the various device, platform, and browser (and their versions) combinations that your customers might be using. However, the pain and efforts associated can be reduced, if the cross-browser testing is cloud-based. Reference: [link].

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2015, the Spring folks already regarded Dynatrace as the gold standard for performance monitoring. Auto-enrichment is also available in cases where OneAgent is unavailable or unnecessary. Definitions of the Slack workflow are also in the Git repository. Fortunately, back in our Slack message, we have relevant links available.

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Metrics Analytics Speed Java 200

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

This allows us to proactively push changes to the open source version while ensuring that the changes are fully functional and well-tested. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. and a brief introduction to Conductor API, UI and other modules.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 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.

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Testing Performance Testing Website Code 95

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. All these changes made one concrete effect on the testing world. They made cross-browser testing essential. What is cross-browser testing? Cross-browser testing is a mantra to be followed by everyone developing a website.

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