All Things Distributed

JANUARY 20, 2020

Back when Jeff Bezos filled orders in his garage and drove packages to the post office himself, crunching the numbers on costs, tracking inventory, and forecasting future demand was relatively simple. Fast-forward 25 years, Amazon's retail business has more than 175 fulfillment centers (FC) worldwide with over 250,000 full-time associates shipping millions of items per day.

Big Data 209

Big Data Logistics Retail Government 209

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Unlike cloning or replication, this allows you to maintain an active, point-in-time copy of your production data. This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application performance for MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Analytics 185

Analytics Storage Database Systems 185

Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dynatrace news. Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in October 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP real user monitoring. If you work with SAP ABAP, you may have noticed that finding information about SAP application and transaction performance involves scaling a high barrier to entry. While powerful, SAP performance management tools like the SAP Solution Manager are also complex.

Monitoring 154

Monitoring Performance Infrastructure Network 154

DZone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Read on to find out some Java technical interview questions! Almost any Java technical interview contains several questions covering Java concurrency topics. A common scenario for a beginner-intermediate level sound like this: Interviewer: Can you enumerate the Java thread life cycle states?

Java 147

Java Code Performance 147

Tasktop

JANUARY 20, 2020

Flow time doesn’t stop the clock just because the weekend rolls around. What flow time does do is help quantify the probability of completing x percent of work in so many days – Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop . Every second counts in software delivery. That’s why Flow Time — the other “money metric” alongside Flow Velocity — is so important to IT and business leaders.

Metrics 59

Metrics DevOps Software Software 59

Testsigma

JANUARY 20, 2020

According to the ISTQB glossary, Regression is “degradation in the quality of a component or system due to a change”. And, Regression Testing is “a type of change-related testing to detect whether defects have been introduced or uncovered in unchanged areas of the software.”. Hence, whenever there is a change in the code, we need to ensure that the previously intact and working code is still working and that the changed code has not impacted the working code in a negative way.

Testing 53

Testing Strategy DevOps Code 53

Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dynatrace news. Effective monitoring calls for effective reporting. With dashboard subscriptions and scheduled reports, available as an Early Adopter Release with version 1.184, Dynatrace now makes your life substantially easier. Turn powerful Dynatrace dashboards into custom reports with just two clicks. Dynatrace dashboards support a variety of chart visualizations and tiles.

Metrics 189

Metrics Monitoring Availability Network 189