Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Commonly, teams create SLOs because they are simply following what others in the industry are doing, or because they are common best practices. Pitfall 3: Using SLOs reactively vs. proactively. But many fail to understand the business objective it is tied to. Let’s take service availability for example.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

By integrating best practices such as least privilege into an IAM pipeline, we transitioned the security team from being gatekeepers of the cloud into cloud development accelerators. Over the last couple of years, we’ve battle tested ConsoleMe and have added features to scale it with our needs at Netflix. What is ConsoleMe?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We You can drill down into the test details for each site and learn how the fastest sites stay fast.) Looking at the synthetic test results, we see that while Start Render time is an impressive 0.3 Use code splitting judiciously.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But with the growing smartphone user base, two things are a given: one — There will be more people who will want to access your website via mobile, ensuring great quality and usability for your websites for mobile and testing them well will become very important. What Is Mobile Web Testing? Why Should We Perform Mobile Web Testing?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. At first, we decided to run some tests using synthetic testing tools.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS. So, did it?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at a React utility React.Children.toArray which lets us prepare the children prop for inspection and iteration, some of its shortcomings and how to overcome them — through a small open-source package, to keep our React code function the way it is deterministically supposed to behave, keeping performance intact.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. Interface Design Checklists (PDF) 100 practical cards for common interface design challenges. People Only Touch What They See. +.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Inspired by that post, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into a few of the best practices they mentioned, which fall loosely into these three buckets: Analyze your pages – understand the critical rendering path and page composition. Changes to your code base. Read: Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build!

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Using mydumper you can backup and restore a single database or a single table if it’s needed, and this is useful to copy some data to a different environment to run tests. Restore Testing Depending on your business, it’s highly recommended to test your backups at least once per month. Did you look at the file size?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. 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.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 15, 2020

We've also added Total Blocking Time (TBT), which is one of Google's recommended Core Web Vitals metrics for lab/synthetic testing. Code splitting. Evaluate code in your idle periods using Philip Walton's Idle Until Urgent. As always, we welcome your feedback, best practices, and success stories!

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Data-driven strategies and battle tested techniques will make you a master of mobile-and improve your non-mobile design, too!

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. The parameters and consequences of UI testing remain consistent across various fields though. .

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. DevOps and DevSecOps practices help organizations release software faster and more frequently, paving the way for digital transformation. What is DevOps?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The simplest of them is that open-source projects are those whose source code is available to read and reuse in other projects. You can just navigate to their repository, open the files, analyze the code, change according to yourself and reuse it as per your requirement. . Contribution to open-source is not equal to coding.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

Many of the most damaging recent security breaches happened to code written in MSLs (e.g., I just want C++ to let me enforce our already-well-known safety rules and best practices by default, and make me opt out explicitly if that’s what I want. We can and do write “good” code and secure applications in C++. Let’s dig in.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. Increased testing complexity. Functional FaaS best practices.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

More than half of CIOs confirmed that they often make tradeoffs among code quality, security, and reliability to meet the need for rapid software delivery. Such testing makes it easier to detect any potential issues before they impact real users. 54% deploy updates every two hours or less, and 20% deploy updates every minute or less.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Keptn: A reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

With this approach, teams can scale testing for all environments, which reduces efforts in replicating, updating, and maintaining test scripts. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. No external tools or additional configurations are needed.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

More than half of CIOs confirmed that they often make tradeoffs among code quality, security, and reliability to meet the need for rapid software delivery. Such testing makes it easier to detect any potential issues before they impact real users. 54% deploy updates every two hours or less, and 20% deploy updates every minute or less.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. To fully answer “What are microservices?”

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. To fully answer “What are microservices?”

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Although based on the load it may be possible to infinitely scale the data pipeline but that will come with a cost which most companies other than Google or Amazon will struggle to justify. Your best shot is proactive capacity planning and better resources utilisation by removing inefficiencies.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. By testing every single email aspect! Let’s talk email testing! But are you certain that your email testing flow is comprehensive and smooth enough?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Encouraging a shift-left approach , testing earlier in the development lifecycle. SRE vs DevOps?

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. With that being said, see how we easily achieved a 100/100 score with WordPress and Google PageSpeed Insights. Why Care About Page Speed?

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Is that born out in the code itself? Do they practice what they preach?

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