Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

So how are non-SAP Operations engineers to understand basic SAP performance counters and have a common platform for dialog with the SAP Basis team? So how are non-SAP Operations engineers to understand basic SAP performance counters and have a common platform for dialog with the SAP Basis team? How many users are affected?

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Monitoring Performance Infrastructure Network 153

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

While investigating some performance mysteries in Chrome I discovered that Microsoft had parallelized how they zero memory, and in some cases this was making it a lot slower. But I’ve now found four different ways to trigger this inefficiency and when it is hit – oh my. Conveniently enough I’d blogged about these hidden costs already.

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. All right, but what does this have to do with testing? Front-End Testing Traps. Integration tests have a broader scope.

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Testing Best Practices Code Design 120

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s a daunting world for those who aren’t familiar with it (and even those who are at times), so this checklist breaks down key factors to consider when undertaking an audit. Testing And Monitoring. It can be bolted on to an extent, but that’s never as good as when it’s woven into the site’s DNA. Frederick O’Brien. Quick Wins.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

But, the catch is that most of them are not following a basic guideline – the Definition of Done for a feature should also include testing and automation of the feature. And just that is the reason why we are laying special emphasis on ‘insprint test automation’. In-sprint test automation simplified! Grab your free copy!

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Testing Strategy Software Software 56

Tasktop

JUNE 21, 2022

In a recent webinar with Tasktop CEO and Project to Product author, Dr. Mik Kersten, Bobby described how value stream management (VSM) is proving a core tenet of operating IT with increasing effectiveness. That’s according to research shared by Bobby Cameron, a Vice President and Principal Analyst serving CIOs at Forrester ®.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 79

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2019

So how are non-SAP Operations engineers to understand basic SAP performance counters and have a common platform for dialog with the SAP Basis team? These Ops engineers need shortcuts and normalization—just enough information to know if SAP is slow and if users are affected. How many users are affected?

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Monitoring Performance Infrastructure Network 109

Testsigma

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To ensure quality, mobile app testing is essential. In this blog, we will discuss a step-by-step mobile app testing checklist. This is where cross-platform testing comes into the picture. Since the mobile apps have limited storage space and power supply, test for memory utilization as well as battery usage.

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Mobile Testing Operating System Storage 65

Randon ASCII

MARCH 30, 2020

I learned how to use d3.js As always, this blog is mine and I do not speak for Google. My test builds took up to 6.2 I did my tests on an October 2019 version of Chromium’s code because that gave me the most flexibility about which build options to use. Enough talk, let’s see some data. These are my opinions.

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C++ Code Open Source Programming 87

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

I remember when I learned about dynamic programming, greedy or divide and conquer algorithms. I remember when I learned about dynamic programming, greedy or divide and conquer algorithms. Usually, they are not related with computational complexity, but about serving what’s needed when needed in the best possible way.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

Here is how you can achieve SLA compliance goal for your SaaS business. Here is how you can achieve SLA compliance goal for your SaaS business. To meet all SLA compliance you need to measure and monitor business transactions along with stored and transmitted data. Service Level Agreements (SLA) plays an important role here.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Monitoring Mobile Benchmarking 52

Tasktop

JANUARY 9, 2020

Given that most large-scale organizations use at least three main tools in their software delivery toolchains (for development, testing and support), the cost of data extraction and storage begins to stack up and fast. Turning software delivery data into IT and business intelligence is nothing new; it’s the 21st-century gold rush.

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Software Software Metrics Database 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`. How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`. JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Adrian Bece. 2022-04-11T09:30:00+00:00.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Testlodge

APRIL 12, 2016

We’ve written about a number of different types of software testing in the past, from functional testing , black & white box testing , smoke testing , pair testing and more. Many of these testing methods have rigid structures and rules, and a lot of planning and preparation go into them. How to Do it.

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Testing Design Software Software 51

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? It was revealed that their application wasn’t good enough to accept the larger than usual number of users who tried to access their website during the deal time.

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Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. What are CMPs and how do they work? longer to load.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 129

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make process creation on Windows grow slower over time (with no limit), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! And, of course, this post will also cover how to detect and avoid this problem. But when I checked in later the build seemed to have stopped.

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Processing Cache Programming Virtualization 57

Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

These traditional controls are well-aligned with the waterfall model, but when applied to Agile software delivery organizations, a disaster inevitably occurs. This results in stress and significant challenges for tech companies when aligning their internal processes with the requirements of the standard.

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Innovation Software Software Speed 53

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

If you’re happy just to trust me, then this is all you need to know right now: Google takes URL-level Core Web Vitals data from CrUX into account when deciding where to rank you in a search results page. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Percona

JULY 5, 2023

This blog post will discuss fragmentation and its impact on InnoDB. We say that something is fragmented when it is formed by parts that are separate or placed in a different order than the natural one. How does fragmentation affect the locality of data? How does fragmentation affect the locality of data?

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Open Source Database Efficiency Testing 123

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A decade or so ago, when an IT organization (captive or company) hit rock bottom - bloated payroll, lost confidence and ruptured trust resulting from rampant defects, rocky deployments, functional mis-fits, and long delivery cycles - it would give anything a try, even that crazy Agile stuff.

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Government Games C++ Virtualization 40

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 9, 2018

This week I want to share some techniques for digging deeper into this behavior, and the odd things that I found when trying to use them. When I first wrote UIforETW I noticed that an inordinate amount of the size of the traces it recorded was coming from the Microsoft-Windows-Win32k provider. Unpossible!

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Processing Traffic Testing Systems 53

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Sometimes debuggers and profilers are obivously broken, sometimes it's subtle and hard to spot. From my flame graphs page: CPU flame graph (partly broken) (Click for original SVG.) This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance. These partial stacks get grouped together on the left.

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Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. CD may sound daunting to teams already stretched to the limit. What is continuous delivery? What are the benefits of continuous delivery?

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We introduced Digital Business Analytics in part one as a way for our customers to tie business metrics to application performance and user experience, delivering unified insights into how these metrics influence business milestones and KPIs. But how does this impact business outcomes? A quick peek behind the curtains.

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Analytics Metrics Best Practices Servers 207

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. Lighthouse results. Lighthouse results.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , Michael Lindon , and Colin McFarland This is the fifth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?),

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Metrics Testing Innovation Design 204

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. Barry Pollard. 2021-04-19T08:30:00+00:00.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. As a result, IT operations, DevOps , and SRE teams are all looking for greater observability into these increasingly diverse and complex computing environments. In short, no.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As a Flutter app owner, you want to ensure your app’s success, so you need quick answers to questions such as “Is the login fast enough?”; ”; or “How is the third-party service across regions? ”; or “How is the third-party service across regions?” Dynatrace news.

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Code Mobile Monitoring Infrastructure 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2022

In much the same way that quarterbacks need defensemen and receivers to win football games, site reliability engineers need service-level objectives (SLOs) to measure, manage, and monitor desired outcomes. Step 1: Categorize service levels and the data required to measure them. But effective SRE is a team effort.

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Metrics Games Monitoring Engineering 185

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Confidence for a safe release is provided by more validation of how the changes impact quality, for example, before deploying to production or with impact analysis during blue/green deployments. In these circumstances, Site Reliability Engineering teams face two big challenges: Measuring uptime is not enough anymore.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Chaos engineering provides mechanisms to test for failures, create awareness of this systems in terms of how complex and how distributed they are, and to be proactive. Dynatrace news. Very often, I heard that chaos engineering is only a technique used by larger companies (like Netflix) or in cloud native environments.

Engineering 140

Engineering Cloud Monitoring Testing 140

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time? These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. This is how Java flame graphs looked at the time.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126