Mon.Nov 05, 2018

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No fear: How to test software in production

TechBeacon Testing

When I started as a software tester, testing in production was what happened when teams didn't take QA seriously. But your application is being tested in production every single day by the people who use it. You just need to find a way to use all the data users are already generating.

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

HammerDB

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered.

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Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video

Smashing Magazine

Open up a terminal instance and navigate to the directory where the test gif is located then run the command below to convert it to an MP4 video file: ffmpeg -i animated.gif video.mp4. Running the above command on the test GIF, trims down the video output to just 386KB with no discernable difference in quality. Convert GIF To MP4.