Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , I decided to answer multiple comments here separately. First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.

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Kovair

AUGUST 18, 2019

The increasing demand for IT companies to deliver high-quality software at a rapid speed has made it compulsory to shift towards using Agile and DevOps. The post The Human Value in Driving Automated DevOps Testing appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 18, 2019

Robust learning from untrusted sources Konstantinov & Lampert, ICML’19. Welcome back to a new term of The Morning Paper! Just before the break we were looking at selected papers from ICML’19, including “Data Shapley.” I’m going to pick things up pretty much where we left off with a few more ICML papers… Data Shapley provides us with one way of finding and correcting or eliminating low-value (and potentially harmful) data points from a training set.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. It is used by and has had contributions from many companies including Netfilx, Facebook, Red Hat, Shopify, and others. It was created by Alastair Robertson, a talented UK-based developer who has previously won various coding competitions.

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