Mon.Mar 23, 2020

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 3 – Pgpool-II

Scalegrid

In our previous posts in this series, we discussed the case for connection pooling and introduced PgBouncer. In this post, we will discuss its most popular alternative – Pgpool-II. Pgpool-II is the swiss army knife of PostgreSQL middleware. It supports high-availability, provides automated load balancing, and has the intelligence to balance load between masters and slaves so write loads are always directed at masters, while read loads are directed to slaves.

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60 seconds to self-upgrading observability on Google Kubernetes Engine

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. Our procurement decisions were based on trace data that was pulled from a handful of fragmented monitoring solutions. The data had to be painstakingly stitched together over the course of a few weeks, across each layer of our stack.

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Beyond Whack-A-Bug: From Reactive to Proactive E2E Testing

DZone

Of all of the classic arcade games, Whack-A-Mole just might be the most frustrating. You can’t win the game of Whack-A-Mole. Every time you think you’ve hit the mole, the little scoundrel always finds a way to pop up again somewhere else, and you’re always one step behind. In the world of end-to-end testing, we can get stuck playing Whack-A-Bug when we reactively write tests to bugs that pop up in production in order to prevent them from appearing again.

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Microsoft's new SQL client is here!

Particular Software

A few months back, Microsoft released a brand new SQL client library called Microsoft.Data.SqlClient on NuGet. Wait…didn't we already have a stable SQL client library shipped as a part of.NET Framework? Why reinvent the wheel? Let's see why, which one you should choose, and how this affects our NServiceBus packages. Update Cycles Have you noticed that database servers are getting more frequent updates?

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What Does Your APM Look Like? [Survey]

DZone

Monitoring application performance has always been a major challenge. Today, with the rise of distributed environments, microservices, and containers, monitoring application performance has become even harder. In recent years, new application performance monitoring (APM) tools and capabilities have emerged to help, but how much are IT teams truly leveraging them?

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Run vdbench on HCI with X-Ray

n0derunner

How to use Nutanix X-Ray to run any vdbench workload at scale Download vdbench from the Oracle site Download the vdbench x-ray test scenario from github or clone the whole repo [link] Rename the zip file downloaded from Oracle to vdbench.zip The X-ray scenerio relies on the zip file having exactly this name. Go to … The post Run vdbench on HCI with X-Ray appeared first on n0derunner.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Andrew Clarke. 2020-03-23T13:00:00+00:00. 2020-03-23T15:36:17+00:00. For the past few years, books about HTML and CSS have almost vanished from my studio bookshelves.

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COVID-19 Preparedness at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Customers & Friends, With the impact of COVID-19 growing around the world, we are taking proactive steps to prepare our infrastructure to continue seamlessly as we navigate this critical time. In an abundance of caution to the rapidly growing climate of the pandemic, we are taking extreme measures to ensure the safety of our employees, customers and partners.