DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Introduction. Digital services and applications continue to play a significant role in people’s everyday lives especially during the pandemic when dependency on technology has increased to an all-time high. As a result, applications have become a lifeline to normalcy. Today, people rely on applications not only for entertainment and staying connected with friends and family but also for maintaining their health, finances, and overall lifestyle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Part 3 (False positives and statistical significance).

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Everyone has their own definition of true leadership. What I didn't understand at the start of my leadership journey was that each of us is a leader. Regardless of intent, we influence and impact our communities, industries, workplaces, and relationships. Yet, often we don't understand the importance or impact of simply being present. So I wanted to write a message to anyone looking to grow into engineering leadership.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx. Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx. Melvin Kosisochukwu. 2021-10-26T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-26T15:38:33+00:00. In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js application using Nx and its rich features. We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization.

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Database Availability Group (DAG) is a built-in framework in Microsoft Exchange Server that uses continuous replication and failover clustering to ensure high availability and site resilience. In Exchange Server, DAG refers to a cluster of Exchange Servers (up to 16 Exchange Mailbox Servers) that hosts a set of database copies and provides protection against switchover and failover.

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SQL Shack

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This article will explore automatic index advisor (CREATE_INDEX, DROP_INDEX) for Azure SQL Database. Introduction Azure SQL Database enables its users to focus on database objects, tuning queries without managing the underlying infrastructure resources. Database professionals always focus on indexes for improving query performance on both on-premises and Azure cloud databases.

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TechBeacon Testing

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For a web application to run as expected, all clickable links should forward users to specific and correct URLs. Unfortunately, there can sometimes be thousands of clickable and navigable links in a web app, making it tiresome (and potentially unreliable) to check all of them manually. And as we will discuss below, some link testing methods are not dependable.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Integration is all about getting data to where it needs to be — creating a copy of a specific set of information from one location to another — and then keeping those two copies in sync. . In software delivery tools, the data of interest exists as objects termed “artifacts”, which are work items like features, stories, tasks, test cases, defects and requirements.

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