August, 2022

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The Next Frontier for Observability: Data Ownership With OpenTelemetry

DZone

Observability is a mindset that lets you use data to answer questions about business processes.

Metrics 358
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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. This can go either way: under- or overestimating the efficacy of those changes.

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Dynatrace enables automated remediation with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Ansible automation has changed the game for IT operations. But the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integration with the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform takes automated remediation to a whole new level.

Games 288
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Data Mesh?—?A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Mesh?—?A A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A

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Scaling globally with the new AWS Middle East (UAE) Region

All Things Distributed

`Starting today the new AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is now open for use

AWS 161
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Additional T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2022

SQL Performance

Recently I covered some of the T-SQL improvements in SQL Server 2022 here , and Aaron Bertrand covered additional improvements here. Those improvements were introduced in CTP 2.0. Microsoft just announced the release of SQL Server 2022 CTP 2.1.

Servers 142
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The Challenges of Ajax CDN

DZone

For the longest time, hosting static files on CDNs was the de facto standard for performance tuning website pages. The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations.

Cache 305

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Applications must work as intended and make their way through development pipelines as quickly as possible. Therefore, many organizations turn to function as a service.

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Virtual Production?—?A Validation Framework For Unreal Engine

The Netflix TechBlog

Virtual Production?—?A A Validation Framework For Unreal Engine By Adam Davis, Jimmy Fusil, Bhanu Srikanth and Girish Balakrishnan Game Engines in Virtual Production The use of Virtual Production and real time technologies has markedly accelerated in the past few years.

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Interact with a GraphQL API from a.NET Core Application

The Polyglot Developer

When it comes to C#, it’s not too difficult or time-consuming to create or consume RESTful APIs. In fact, I recently published a tutorial that demonstrated how to create a RESTful API with.NET Core using MongoDB as the NoSQL database.

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Web Crawlers - Top 10 Most Popular

KeyCDN

When it comes to the world wide web, there are both bad bots and good bots. You definitely want to avoid bad bots as these consume your CDN bandwidth, take up server resources, and steal your content.

Website 106
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Comparing Approaches to Durability in Low Latency Messaging Queues

DZone

A significant feature of Chronicle Queue Enterprise is support for TCP replication across multiple servers to ensure the high availability of application infrastructure. I have generally held the view that replicating data to a secondary system is faster than sync-ing to disk, assuming the round trip network delay wasn’t high due to quality networks and co-located redundant servers. This is the first time I have benchmarked it with a realistic example. Little’s Law and Why Latency Matters.

Latency 275
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Communicating Effectively As A Tech Lead

Addy Osmani

Here are my tips for communicating effectively as a technical lead, including tips for how to talk to your teams and stakeholders

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Dynatrace Runtime Vulnerability Analysis now covers the entire application stack

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In addition to modern application stacks introducing new levels of speed and complexity, they also create new security challenges. And the distinction between applications and cloud platforms is blurring. Missing holistic vulnerability analysis creates risk.

Java 235
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Reinforcement Learning for Budget Constrained Recommendations

The Netflix TechBlog

by Ehtsham Elahi with James McInerney , Nathan Kallus , Dario Garcia Garcia and Justin Basilico Introduction This writeup is about using reinforcement learning to construct an optimal list of recommendations when the user has a finite time budget to make a decision from the list of recommendations.

Systems 189
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Slow Website Performance? You Might Be Using Too Much JavaScript

Gtmetrix

We’ll show you how too much JavaScript impacts your page’s performance and how to address this issue. Overview As you probably already know, JavaScript is an integral part of practically every website these days.

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Implementing A Reset Password Feature With Next.js Dynamic Routes

Smashing Magazine

Implementing A Reset Password Feature With Next.js Dynamic Routes. Implementing A Reset Password Feature With Next.js Dynamic Routes. Caleb Olojo. 2022-08-19T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-08-19T10:32:45+00:00.

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5 Super Fast Ways To Improve Core Web Vitals

DZone

Does your website take more than 3 seconds to load? Is your website struggling with a high bounce rate? Then it requires immediate attention

Website 257
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What is Observability? A Comprehensive Guide (Tools, Challenges, Best Practices)

Simform

In today's distributed environment age, having proper infrastructure and architecture visibility has become a massive challenge. That’s where observability comes into the picture. It aims to make IT systems high-performant, efficient, and fault-tolerant.

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Reduce incident response times with Davis® AIOps push notifications on your phone

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Life as an SRE means always being alerted on issues, because your infrastructure and applications never sleep.

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On Technique

O'Reilly

In a previous article , I wrote about how models like DALL-E and Imagen disassociate ideas from technique. In the past, if you had a good idea in any field, you could only realize that idea if you had the craftsmanship and technique to back it up. With DALL-E, that’s no longer true.

Media 90
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Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 6

SQL Performance

[ This series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ]. In part 5, I described how the early phases of query compilation affect simple parameterization. To recap: Normalization and decoding promote cached plan reuse. The decoding step has fixed and limited capabilities.

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Better Video Streaming With imgix

Smashing Magazine

Better Video Streaming With imgix. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Doug Sillars. 2022-08-25T08:00:00+00:00. 2022-08-25T13:03:51+00:00. This article is sponsored by imgix. Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development.

Media 92
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7 Practical Reasons Why Software Testing Is Imperative to the Development Cycle

DZone

Thorough testing is critical to the development of any software product. It can cost companies order of magnitude much more to fix a bug in the wild than if they’d caught it early in development. These bugs cost money, lose customers, and tarnish your brand.

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Hosted by Abstracta, WOPR29 is just around the corner

Abstracta

How was WOPR29’s theme chosen and why is it being hosted by Abstracta in Uruguay? Find out in this article, featuring Paul Holland, Andy Hohenner, Eric Proegler, and Federico Toledo. Many articles are coming up in this new saga called “Performance Testing In-Depth”, with interviews.

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Dynatrace named global winner for best observability platform by Research in Action in their 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Research in Action (RIA), a leading independent research and consulting company based in Germany, recently named Dynatrace the global winner for best observability platform in its 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™.

Strategy 225
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Randomizing MongoDB Document Fields on a Repeating Timer with Node.js

The Polyglot Developer

About a year ago I created a game with MongoDB and Unity and wrote about it in a previous tutorial. The idea was to demonstrate how features within the game could be synchronized to each player in near real-time.

Games 59
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Configure cross-platform SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

This article for the Always On Availability Groups series will show how to configure SQL Server Always On Availability Groups between Windows and Linux SQL instances. Introduction Microsoft supports SQL Server on Linux, and it has many of the same features as the Windows version.

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What Does God Need With a Starship?

The Agile Manager

Andy Kessler wrote in the WSJ this month about the value of being a contrarian. Contrarians have a reputation for being cynics or curmudgeons because they’re out of step with mainstream thinking.

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Spark-Radiant: Apache Spark Performance and Cost Optimizer

DZone

Spark-Radiant is Apache Spark Performance and Cost Optimizer. Spark-Radiant will help optimize performance and cost considering catalyst optimizer rules, enhance auto-scaling in Spark, collect important metrics related to a Spark job, Bloom filter index in Spark, etc.

Big Data 246
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DevOps monitoring: The Why, What, and How of DevOps monitoring

Simform

Monitoring as a development practice is essential – not just for preventing downtimes. It brings multiple other benefits to an organization and improves the processes for your development teams.

DevOps 52
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Introducing Cloud Done Right

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace has always been a company built on continuous innovation. .

Cloud 213
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Cost of Hiring a Flutter App Development Company

Tech News Gather

If you hear tech enthusiasts highlighting that Flutter app development is at the peak of gaining tremendous traction, then it may not be a false statement. The open-source UI toolkit has been recording intense popularity among app developers.

Mobile 52
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Performance Testing In-Depth #1 Hosted by Abstracta, WOPR29 is just around the corner

Abstracta

How was WOPR29’s theme chosen and why is it being hosted by Abstracta in Uruguay? Find out in this article, featuring Paul Holland, Andy Hohenner, Eric Proegler, and Federico Toledo. Interested in performance testing? Stay tuned! Many articles are coming up in this new saga called.

Tuning 52
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Setting up PMM for monitoring MySQL on a local environment

Percona Community

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open source database monitoring, observability, and management tool that can be used for monitoring the health of your database infrastructure, exploring new patterns in database behavior, and managing and improving the performance of your databases no matter where they are located or deployed.

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Getting Started With Nose in Python

DZone

A challenge that many developers face in Selenium test automation is choosing the right test framework that can help them come up with automated tests with minimal (or no) requirement of boilerplate code.

Testing 246
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Software Development Team – Build World-class Solutions On the Go

Simform

Imagine having an excellent product idea with the potential to skyrocket your profits and generate value for users. Or planning relentlessly to give your company a complete digital overhaul!