June, 2021

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Top Automation Programming Languages of 2021

DZone

Introduction. In today’s highly competitive world, software development and automation play a significant role in creating robust software applications for businesses. Additionally, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain have given a competitive edge to enterprises. For gaining maximum benefits out of automation testing , testers require hands-on experience in a minimum of one automation programming language.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight.

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New Feature for BYOC – Pausing and Resuming Clusters

Scalegrid

At ScaleGrid we always strive to make our service as user friendly and value adding as possible. Some of our users have been wanting to save on their database machine costs during periods when the databases are not in use, such as on weekends or at night.

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The White House Executive Order on Cybersecurity: How Dynatrace observability delivers on three essential directives

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. With the recent release of the White House “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” the Biden administration has issued a forceful response to incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline and the SolarWinds attacks. “The United States faces persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sector, the private sector and ultimately the American people’s security and privacy,” the order states.

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Linux Kernel vs. Memory Fragmentation (Part I)

High Scalability

This post introduces common methods to prevent Linux memory fragmentation, the principle of memory compaction, how to view the fragmentation index, etc.

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Supercharging Application Delivery

All Things Distributed

The goal of AWS Proton is simple: customers should be able to adopt, customize and evolve best practices and technologies for delivering their modern applications to the cloud, and not worry about how they roll this out – potentially to thousands of developers – across their organization.

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Client-Side Perf Testing Using Lighthouse CI With Puppeteer

DZone

Whenever we need to do performance testing, mostly it is the APIs that come to mind. Testing the performance of an application by putting load on APIs or on servers and checking out various metrics or parameters falls under server-side performance testing.

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ScaleGrid PostgreSQL on VMware Cloud Infrastructure

Scalegrid

ScaleGrid recently partnered up with VMware to create a solution that integrates the powerful features of a PostgreSQL DBaaS on vSphere with advanced added support for vVols, allowing DBAs to automate and focus more on their product as opposed to time-consuming database management tasks, scaling and high availability. VMware vVols (Virtual Volumes) allows your existing […].

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.220

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. General. To take advantage of performance improvements, the latest security-vulnerability enhancements, and bug fixes, we’ve upgraded the following cluster node components: Cassandra and Elasticsearch will now use JRE 8u292. Elasticsearch engine is now based on version 7.10. Other components will now use JRE 11.0.11.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 25th, 2021

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Only listen if you want a quantum earworm for the rest of the day. Not your style? This is completely different. No, it’s even more different than that. Today in things that nobody stopped me from doing: The AWS Elastic Load Balancer Yodel Rag. pic.twitter.com/ocyVLf8WlU. — Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal) May 28, 2021.

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It’s Officially Startup Season in Space

All Things Distributed

We launched our AWS Space Accelerator to catalyze space innovation and support some of the most innovative startups that are helping shape the future of aerospace. Meet the 10 startups to take part in the first cohort of the AWS Space Accelerator.

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How to Work With Tables in Selenium PHP

DZone

Web tables, or "data tables," are a common sight in many web-based applications. These tables are predominantly used for displaying information in a tabular format. Rows and columns are the key identifiers of web tables in Selenium. If you’re using tables in Selenium PHP, you can perform several operations on the table, like fetching data from a specific row-column combination, searching for a particular key string in the table, etc.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Dhevi Rajendran is a Data Engineer on the Growth Data Science and Engineering team. Dhevi joined Netflix in July 2020 and is one of many Data Engineers who have onboarded remotely during the pandemic.

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USENIX LISA2021 BPF Internals (eBPF)

Brendan Gregg

For USENIX LISA2021 I gave a 40 minute deep dive talk on BPF internals for Linux, focusing on observability tracing tools. Since there are already BPF internals references online (listed in this post) I used the opportunity to create some new content, showing how bpftrace instrumentation works from user space down to machine code. I break it down to all the small components involved, where you'll find it's actually quite easy.

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OneAgent release notes version 1.217

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Rollout starts June 8, 2021. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. 1.199. 1.193. Java. Added support for Oracle Hotspot JVM 16 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (ARM64 (AArch64)). Added support for Oracle Hotspot JVM 16 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (x86), Solaris (x86), Windows (x86).

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

The State Of Web Workers In 2021. The State Of Web Workers In 2021. Surma. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. I’m weary of always comparing the web to so-called “native” platforms like Android and iOS. The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. This is such a fundamental difference, that many architectural choices from native platforms don’t easily apply to the web — if at all.

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Introducing AWS Bugbust

All Things Distributed

AWS BugBust is the first global bug-busting challenge for developers to fix bugs in a fun and competitive environment. Using modern tools like CodeGuru, we’re able to transform the way we go about bug bashes, improving developer productivity with ML. Our challenge has the ambitious goal of fixing one million bugs and helping AWS customers save $100 million in technical debt.

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Reporting of Apdex Rating in JMeter

DZone

Application Performance Index. If, like me, you have some difficulties in making a Pass/Fail call for your performance tests when given the Summary Statistics of the performance test results, then the Apdex metric may come in handy. The Application Performance Index defines a score to report the quality of the user experience across any application.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team. Samuel and his team build tools and frameworks that support data engineering teams across Netflix.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision.

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Using SLOs to become the optimization athlete with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. This post was co-authored by Jean-Louis Lormeau, Digital Performance Architect at Dynatrace. . Observability is a topic at the top of mind for all architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and more – each wanting to use observability to proactively detect issues and guarantee the best experience and availability to users. Much like in sport, we cannot improve ourselves and become the best at what we do without having well-defined goals.

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30 test automation leaders you should follow on Twitter

TechBeacon Testing

Code quality is extremely important, and one of the most essential ways to ensure a polished software product is test automation. Under the umbrella of software testing, test automation is crucial to ensuring continuous delivery (CD) as well as continuous testing.

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Amazon on AWS: Seamlessly integrating physical and emerging digital technologies.

All Things Distributed

We go behind the scenes to look at how Amazon Robotics uses AWS IoT to manage hundred of thousands of robots.

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Performance Engineering Management: A Quick Guide

DZone

In every project performance testing, assessment, and resolution become the key phase before going to production. In this article, there will be a sneak preview of key concepts, lifecycle steps, tips, and further guidance. I will try to cover the holistic view in this short writing including non-functional requirements with high-level details but the focus will be on the performance aspect mainly, beyond this a lot more detailed steps will be involved.

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Efficient and Reliable Compute Cluster Management at Scale

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Uber relies on a containerized microservice architecture. Our need for computational resources has grown significantly over the years, as a consequence of business’ growth. It is an important goal now to increase the efficiency of our computing resources. Broadly … The post Efficient and Reliable Compute Cluster Management at Scale appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js

Smashing Magazine

Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js. Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js. Átila Fassina. 2021-06-29T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. This is an inevitable problem any stack faces at some point and it can strike from different points depending on what kind of product you are working with.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.218

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Clickwrap agreement. Starting with Dynatrace Managed version 1.218, a Master Subscription Agreement (MSA), or “clickwrap” agreement, can be displayed to new users. For details on managing clickwrap display, see Clickwrap agreement. New features and enhancements. General. Cluster backups that use local disk storage are no longer supported and will be disabled after the upgrade to version 1.218.

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Sponsored Post: Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times.

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React Native vs Swift – A Side-by-Side Comparison for iOS Application Development

Simform

React Native vs Swift has been a topic of confusion among many iOS developers. This article will explain exactly what difference React Native & Swift makes when it comes to iOS application development. The post React Native vs Swift – A Side-by-Side Comparison for iOS Application Development appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Software Project Management Plan

DZone

Nowadays, many companies, organizations, and individuals are becoming more aware of the importance of technological factors in all aspects of life. This situation has resulted in the increasing need for different software products and services that cannot be created successfully without a proper software project management plan. Overview of Software Project Management.

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Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

Uber Engineering

Introduction to Flaky Tests. Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability. It also … The post Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)

Smashing Magazine

The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition). The Many Shades Of July (2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition). Cosima Mielke. 2021-06-30T09:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Often, it’s the little things that inspire us and that we treasure most. The sky shining in the most beautiful colors as a seemingly endless summer day comes to an end, riding your bike through a light rain shower on a hot July afternoon, or maybe it’s a scoop of your favorite ice cream that refuels your batteri

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Interoperability is painful. Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. Most of the code running on the planet, at least the code that mattered, was written in.NET or Java, and interoperability via web services was at least serviceable. Since then, things have gotten gradually worse. First came Ruby and Ruby on Rails. In the early days, it did not support web services like other platforms did.

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Sponsored Post: Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times.

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Top Frontend Trends Organizations are Embracing in 2021

Simform

New frontend trends do not pop out of the blue in the software world. The trends become popular when either a prominent organization has adopted it, or there have been promising and evidential incentives to embrace the trend. Given that it is imperative to keep a tab on the changing requirements, let us dive into some of the top frontend trends organizations are embracing in 2021.

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Dev Tools to the Rescue – Part 1

DZone

Whether you are a software developer working on someone else’s projects or you run a business yourself, utilizing the right tools of the trade is essential. The market of software development tools is an ever-changing one and increasingly competitive. It’s a tough task to decide which one is best suited for you.

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Usage details of the SET STATISTICS TIME ON statement in SQL Server

SQL Shack

With the help of the SET STATISTICS TIME ON statement, we can easily report the execution time statistics of a query. In this article, we will learn how to report the query execution time statistics through this statement. Introduction In today’s world, users have the most natural right to want database applications to run at […].

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