DZone

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Find out more about cross-browser testing! In the past two decades, there has seen a tremendous increase in the web. There were about 2.4 Million websites in 1998 and now there are approx 1.8 billion. More devices result in more users, more platforms and more browsers and eventually more ways in which your website can be viewed. You may also like: How Cross-Browser Testing Is Evolving.

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Testing Tools Testing Website Performance Testing 195

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Every day around the world, millions of trips take place across the Uber network, giving users more reliable transportation through ridesharing, bikes, and scooters, drivers and truckers additional opportunities to earn, employees and employers more convenient business travel, and hungry … The post Uber Infrastructure in 2019: Improving Reliability, Driving Customer Satisfaction appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Infrastructure 144

Infrastructure Transportation Network Engineering 144

Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The CMG Impact conference (February 10-12, 2020 in Las Vegas) is coming. Looking at the program I have the same problem as I always had with CMG conferences – how could I attend all the sessions I want considering that we have multiple tracks? Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 days.

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Efficiency Artificial Intelligence Scalability Performance 100

Edge Perspectives

DECEMBER 19, 2019

I love paradox. Today I’m going explore not just one, but two, paradoxes. Both are related to the role of leadership in our changing world. The first paradox: in a world of mounting performance pressure, we seek “strong” leaders with all the answers, when what we need are leaders with powerful questions. The second paradox: those who have become disillusioned with the status quo are becoming champions of highly decentralized, leaderless “organizations,” when in fact we need leaders more than eve

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Scalability Design Efficiency Virtualization 79

SQL Shack

DECEMBER 19, 2019

SQL While loop and cursor are the most common approach to repeat a statement on condition-based or determined limits. Loop and cursor can be utilized in a circumstance to deal with row-based processing in T-SQL. We generally observe moderate execution of old made procedures, which are composed of using loop and cursors. Those procedures take […].

Servers 54

Servers Performance Processing 54

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Let’s start with a brief definition of two of the more prominent web performance methodologies: synthetic monitoring and real. The post Synthetic Monitoring vs.

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Monitoring Availability Performance Software 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When it comes to connection pooling in the PostgreSQL world, PgBouncer is probably the most popular option. It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. A client connects to PgBouncer with the exact same syntax it would use when connecting directly to PostgreSQL – PgBouncer is essentially invisible.

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Cache Database Architecture Servers 246

Tasktop

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This weekend, I was watching the movie Elf and it got me thinking – how does Santa’s Workshop keep up with the demands of a booming population? I saw the manager keeping track of production quotas on a clipboard. There’s a single magical book that contains what everyone wants for Christmas, but it’s unclear how this information is shared with the teams responsible for production and delivery.

Architecture 64

Architecture Games Speed Software 64

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Let’s start with a brief definition of two of the more prominent web performance methodologies: synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (also known as RUM).

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40