Tue.May 28, 2019

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The anatomy of a defect

Tasktop

The following defect is to some extent typical of those encountered by connector developers 1 at Tasktop, inasmuch as there exists a typical defect. The ‘to some extent’ qualifier is there as most defects are either too straightforward to write a blog about, or conversely too complex and/or delve too deeply into our code internals to make for a concise narrative.

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What Does APM Stand For?: A Newbie Guide

DZone

Defining APM. Today's blog post is headed back to the basics. I've been using and talking about APM tools for so many years sometimes it's hard to remember that feeling of not knowing the associated terms and concepts. So for anyone who is looking to learn the basics of what is APM, this blog is for you. What Does APM Stand For? APM stands for Application Performance Management.

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Update to Chrome 73 and infrastructure upgrade

Dareboost

After several months of intensive work (and a new coffee machine), we are pleased to announce the next update of our service: June 13th (03:00 AM UTC).

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How Visual Testing Is Transforming the Way Modern Teams Test Software

DZone

Visual testing is the automated process of detecting and reviewing visual UI changes. Sometimes called visual regression testing or UI testing, it’s all about what your users actually see and interact with. The visuals and UI of applications are critical parts of how our users use software, but often teams are still relying on slow, error-prone manual testing processes.

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Boosted race trees for low energy classification

The Morning Paper

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., ASPLOS’19. We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. So it’s interesting to see a paper using nano-Joules per prediction as an evaluation metric. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data.

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Percona Live Presents: Globalizing Player Accounts with MySQL at Riot Games

Percona Community

During my presentation at Percona Live 2019, I’ll be talking about how Riot Games, the company behind League of Legends, migrated hundreds of millions of player accounts to unlock opportunities for us to delight players. This meant moving ten geographically distributed databases into a single global database replicated into four AWS regions. I’ll talk about some of the technical decisions we made, the expected vs actual outcomes, and lessons we learned along the way.

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