Wed.Nov 10, 2021

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Interviewing and Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals - Book Review

DZone

A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects: A Fun, Step-by-Step Walk-Through Guide by Leandro Melendez. It is good to see more books on the performance testing/engineering genre recently. One of my favorite books is The Art of Application Performance Testing series by Ian Molyneaux. On this line, James Pulley's book is different, it is completely a non-technical book in the performance testing/engineering genre.

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Automated DevSecOps release validation ensures security by default

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Conventional approaches to application security can’t keep pace with cloud-native environments that rely on agile methodologies, API-driven architectures, microservices, containers, and serverless functions. Existing approaches focus on static security scans of build artifacts and libraries in build pipelines, with two major downsides: (1) Pipelines for each bit of software need to integrate security scans and (2) vulnerabilities might only become known after build execution and

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Why Continuous Performance Testing for Retail Apps Matters

DZone

The retail industry has been actively adopting digital transformation in order to provide a better user experience. According to current trends, the reliance on digital channels has been enormous, placing them at the core of all significant online retail operations. Mobile sales increased by 68 percent in 2020 and are anticipated to surpass other channels as the largest source of all sales by the end of this year.

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Our most critical mission: Adopting AI

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a complex, rapidly growing technology. In a recent FedScoop panel Brett Vaughn, Navy Chief AI Officer, and Willie Hicks, Federal CTO for Dynatrace discuss this up-and-coming technology including: Their definition of AI. How AI is used in the Navy. How to adopt AI quickly and efficiently to keep up in the “AI arms race”.

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How Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Each day, Uber moves millions of people around the world and delivers tens of millions of food and grocery orders. This generates a large number of financial transactions that need to be stored with provable completeness, consistency, and compliance. … The post How Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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2.24.0 Preview Release

Percona Community

2.24.0 Preview Release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.24.0 is now available as a Preview Release. PMM team really appreciates your feedback! We encourage you to try this PMM Preview Release in testing environments only, as these packages and images are not fully production-ready. The final version is expected to be released through the standard channels in the coming week.

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Fundamentals of Table Expressions, Part 13 – Inline Table-Valued Functions, Continued

SQL Performance

This is the thirteenth and last installment in a series about table expressions. This month I continue the discussion I started last month about inline table-valued functions (iTVFs). Last month I explained when SQL Server inlines iTVFs, it applies parameter embedding optimization by default. Parameter embedding means SQL Server replaces parameter references in the query with the literal constant values from the current execution, and then the code with the constants gets optimized.

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