The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The most commonly used one is dataflow project , which helps folks in managing their data pipeline repositories through creation, testing, deployment and few other activities. For more information on this and other examples please visit the Dataflow documentation page." This is one way to build trust with our internal user base.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored and processed, it’s essential to ensure that systems are secure and protected against potential threats. High false-positive rates: Traditional security testing tools generate numerous findings.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

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Testlodge

MARCH 15, 2023

White box testing is a software testing approach based on an analysis of the internal structure of the component or system. Why is White Box Testing Performed? Testers perform white box testing for several reasons. Suppose developers perform unit testing before delivering code to testers.

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Testing Testing Tools Java Programming 83

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

“As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. As a result, IT teams often end up performing time-consuming, manual processes. Test, test, test. Because IAC is code, it needs regular testing. Minimize overall documentation.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

This process, known as auto-adaptive thresholding, eliminates the need to define a static threshold upfront. During this phase, the measured values are informative, allowing observation of the objective’s development without affecting deployment or delivery processes. For full details, see Dynatrace Documentation.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This update improves the ability to observe Citrix users and delivery agents within a Citrix environment using the Citrix SDK, which is designed specifically for Citrix admins. This is accomplished by implementing Citrix recommended practices and metrics, which are well-documented. Does Dynatrace replace Citrix Studio and Director?

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Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 209

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. About pgLoader Enter pgloader , a command line interface (CLI) designed to facilitate the conversion and migration from one DBMS into PostgreSQL. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge. MySQL version 5.7

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. As she saw it, designers approached the problem of automation as if the human factor were not , in fact, a factor. This is precisely the kind of problem that robotic process automation (RPA) aims to address. RPA explained.

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Percona

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I created a test account (replica set) and loaded sample data with one click in Atlas: Create an account in Atlas. Atlas atlas-mhnnqy-shard-0 [primary] test> show dbs sample_airbnb 52.69 GiB Atlas atlas-mhnnqy-shard-0 [primary] test> An EC2 instance with PSMDB installed. Prerequisites: A MongoDB Atlas account.

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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? Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To meet this demand, tester’s rely on test automation tools to rapidly roll out high-quality software. They are leveraging open-source testing tools that are reliable, secure, and free to use. Open source test automation tools have revolutionized the way teams test software. Check out Github.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

The pitfall lies between a poorly designed application and the diverse usability levels that most users don’t agree to accept. Hence, it’s important for developers to create a sleek design with a seamless user interface. This creates a need to perform thorough testing of mobile applications and their usability.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

JANUARY 25, 2024

This software development approach is a dynamic, customer-centric approach that emphasizes an iterative yet collaborative development process. The Agile software development process promotes incremental releases of functional software. Customer involvement is integral throughout the process.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

The purpose is scaling out distributed systems effectively and offering improved management and performance while processing numerous keys. To ascertain which specific hash slot a given key belongs to, there’s an established formula: the CRC16 of the key modulo 16384 determines its assigned hash slot value for use in the hashing process.

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Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Log Monitoring documentation. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.239, we have restructured and enhanced our Log Monitoring documentation to better focus on concepts and information that you, the user, look for and need. Legacy Log Monitoring v1 Documentation. This will happen with Dynatrace version 1.242 or later. Log Monitoring.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cross Browser Testing also known as cross browser compatibility testing is all about creating a consistent experience for users across all browsers – but the question is how do you do that efficiently? Cross Browser compatibility testing helps us to pin-point compatibility errors which helps the developers to debug them quickly.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. It is a process put in place to check that an application, set to be released in the market for users, has a minimum number of errors. As a beginner in software testing, you would make your own mistakes and learn from them to shape your career path.

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Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

The most common reason for jumbo chunks to appear is when the auto-splitter process cannot find a way to split a chunk. This can happen, for example, when all documents in the chunk contain the same shard key. The problem is that jumbo chunks are ignored by the balancer process. This value defaults to 128 MB since MongoDB 6.0 (it

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. ” With the advent of new technologies and new software being released every day, software testing is gaining more strength and accolades.

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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? You can almost think of it as software documentation in reverse. Variability and complexity. Let’s move past it. Causing the cause is difficult.

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Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

Web developers are moving their focus from desktop-first to mobile-first web design which further solidifies our understanding of how important this pocket device has become. What could be the best choice to cut down the costs and gain speed to move the pipeline faster than test automation? Variety of Device Settings.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

The Dynatrace AWS S3 log forwarder is designed to be extensible, so you can customize ingestion settings to fit your specific use cases as well as add custom attributes to your logs. We designed the Dynatrace AWS S3 log forwarder to scale up to meet the demands of our largest customers, some of whom operate thousands of AWS accounts.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But reading texts has been part of the human learning process as long as reading has existed; and, while we pay to buy books, we don’t pay to learn from them. I can also ask for a reading list about plagues in 16th century England, algorithms for testing prime numbers, or anything else. Where did the word “or” come from?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. The final status update was at 6:54PM PDT with a very detailed description of the temperature rise that caused the shutdown initially, followed by the fire suppression system dispersing some chemicals which prolonged the full recovery process. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These are the errors that also need attention during the testing phase. We can divide the errors during software development into two sections for easy understanding: Software errors Testing errors. A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. Testing errors. Software errors. Hardware error.

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Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Modern software loves to use additional processes so I wasn’t surprised when the busiest process wasn’t SoundRec.exe , but the verbosely named “RuntimeBroker.exe <Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder>”. but it appears that RuntimeBroker was – on the same thread – scanning part or all of my documents directory.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design. We try to minimize the amount of these tests.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Continuous Testing is the process of testing at all stages of software development – one after the another- without any human intervention. Continuous Testing is key to faster delivery of Agile products to the market. But does the product have the testability support required to automate all test cases? Not always!

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Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2020

This is ultimately achieved by sequencing the testing of software modules that stand important from the customer’s perspective. Hence the need for test case prioritization arises. In this article, let’s discuss the approach in prioritizing the test cases for regression testing and its importance in the test life cycle.

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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Why is Non-Functional Testing necessary? Both functional and non-functional tests are essential.

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Programming 74

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

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