Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. If we speak about open source tools, we definitely see some improvement – but in many areas they are still behind the best commercial tools (yes, many may not need these adv

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. For example, a media organization may be interested in tracking Time to Interactive because its site relies on third-party advertising for revenue, while an ecommerce business might want to dig deeper into First Meaningful Paint so it can ensure that customers can quickly take action to purchase an item.

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Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

By Benoit Rostykus, Gabriel Hartmann Noisy Neighbors We’ve all had noisy neighbors at one point in our life. Whether it’s at a cafe or through a wall of an apartment, it is always disruptive. The need for good manners in shared spaces turns out to be important not just for people, but for your Docker containers too. When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

DZone

JUNE 2, 2019

Almost every time I present RSocket to an audience, there will be someone asking the question: "How does RSocket compare to gRPC?" Today we are going to find out.

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High Scalability

JUNE 27, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?

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Open Source Database Cloud Strategy 196

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

Dynatrace news. “Keptn is an open source enterprise-grade control plane for cloud-native continuous delivery and automated operations.” That’s the high-level introduction you will find on www.keptn.sh. But what does this really mean? Let me explain it in my words – or – just watch my latest YouTube Performance Clinic Tutorial on “ Getting Started with keptn and Dynatrace ” I ran with Dirk Wallerstorfer who leads the keptn Dev Team.

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Cloud Open Source Traffic Architecture 193

Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The platform allows MySQL AWS administrators to automate their time-consuming database operations in the cloud and improve their performance with high availability, disaster recovery, polyglot persistence, and advanced monitoring and analytics.

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AWS Cloud Open Source Virtualization 191

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Danny Cooper. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00. 2019-06-20T10:35:07+00:00. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free.

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

Test how your application will react when many users access it. When building your application, you probably test your application in a lot of ways, such as unit testing or simply just running the application and checking if it does remotely what you expect it to do. If this succeeds you are happy. Hooray for you, it works for one person! Of course, you’re not in the business of making web applications that will only be used by just one person.

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Testing AWS Performance 240

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

Who's Hiring? Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events. Advertise your event here! Cool Products and Services. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day

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Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we summarize the findings of our Autonomous Cloud Management Survey. In part 1 we examined the Dev-to-Ops ratios that organizations have for their most critical application projects. In this post, we’ll look at organizational silos, and how far organizations have come in breaking them down. To explore this issue, we asked participants the following question: Which of your teams have access to production monitoring data?

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Innovation Monitoring Metrics Strategy 190

Scalegrid

JUNE 18, 2019

Given the popularity of our post on connecting MongoDB SSL with Self-Signed Certificates in Node.js , we decided to write a tutorial on connecting MongoDB with Ruby. In this blog, we’ll show you how to connect to a MongoDB server configured with self-signed certificates for SSL using both the Ruby MongoDB driver and the popular Object-Document-Mapper (ODM) mongoid.

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The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 3, 2019

Amazon and a lot of cloud vendors such as Microsoft and Google have services around machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and virtual assistants. A popular one that might come to mind is Amazon Alexa, something I’ve written quite a few tutorials around over the years. The concept around Alexa is simple. Provide the Alexa service some audio, have that audio converted into text or some other format that can be evaluated, execute some code, and respond with something to be spok

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-06-26T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-06-26T14:06:48+00:00. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

DZone

JUNE 24, 2019

Unit testing is a well-known practice, but there's lots of room for improvement! In this post, the most effective unit testing best practices, including approaches for maximizing your automation tools along the way. We will also discuss code coverage, mocking dependencies, and overall testing strategies. What is Unit Testing? Unit testing is the practice of testing individual units or components of an application, in order to validate that each of those units is working properly.

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Best Practices Testing Java Strategy 220

Kovair

JUNE 20, 2019

We have entered the digital age where technology is flourishing everywhere and is playing an integral role in our lives. Mobile applications are one great. The post How DevOps Testing can Enhance the Application Development Process? appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

Dynatrace news. When disaster strikes, it is important to react fast and get live updates on the recovery progress of the business and mission-critical systems. Dynatrace not only makes it easy to monitor all critical systems (hosts, processes, services, applications, users, network, cloud, custom devices, …) but thanks to the metadata the Dynatrace OneAgent captures for each entity, you can organize, filter, get alerted and get an overview of your system based on data that is relevant to the di

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Virtualization Cloud Monitoring Systems 177

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Chris Guzikowski discusses the convergence of microservices, cloud, containers, and orchestration that points toward the rise of a Next Architecture. Continue reading Next Architecture.

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Architecture Cloud 94

The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 17, 2019

When building a web application there is a good chance you’re going to need to work with images eventually, even if it is something as simple as allowing a user to upload a profile image. In theory this is a simple task, but in reality, your website theme is probably anticipating images of a certain resolution or aspect ratio. If the user tries to upload an image that doesn’t meet your requirements, it might break your theme.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke. 2019-06-13T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-06-13T12:06:21+00:00. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Of course, owning a business meant I had to keep working, but staying motivated and offering my best thinking to clients became a daily struggle.

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Design Media Energy Innovation 104

DZone

JUNE 30, 2019

Slack is the hottest collaboration tool in the market today, both as an internal tool for teams working together and for external groups who share similar interest and need a place to collaborate and share ideas. Slack also offers a free tier which is used by many public communities such as software developers and testers. This tier includes unlimited private and public channels, 10K messages, up to 10 apps (Github, Bitbucket, etc.), file sharing, custom notifications and more.

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Software Software Development Java 189

Kovair

JUNE 5, 2019

According to Garter, artificial intelligence will be omnipresent in all spheres of technology and will successfully make its presence prominent among the top investment priority. The post The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Software Development and Testing appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software Development 94

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2019

Dynatrace news. Docker, Inc. contributed the containerd container runtime to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2017. In 2019, Containerd became the 5th project to reach CNCF’s highest maturity level, graduation. Containerd integrates with the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) and manages the lifecycle of containers on Kubernetes worker nodes.

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Monitoring Tuning Metrics Analytics 165

SQL Performance

JUNE 14, 2019

This article is the third installment in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. Previously I covered determinism and subqueries. This time I focus on joins. Some of the bugs and best practices that I cover here are a result of a survey I did among fellow MVPs. Thanks Erland Sommarskog, Aaron Bertrand, Alejandro Mesa, Umachandar Jayachandran (UC), Fabiano Neves Amorim, Milos Radivojevic, Simon Sabin, Adam Machanic, Thomas Grohser, Chan Ming Man and Paul White for offering your in

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Best Practices C++ Database Processing 93

The Morning Paper

JUNE 4, 2019

Data validation for machine learning Breck et al., SysML’19. Last time out we looked at continuous integration testing of machine learning models , but arguably even more important than the model is the data. Garbage in, garbage out. In this paper we focus on the problem of validation the input data fed to ML pipelines. The importance of this problem is hard to overstate, especially for production pipelines.

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Google Infrastructure Code Best Practices 92

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Experts explore software architecture security, design heuristics, Next Architecture, and more. Experts from across the software architecture world are coming together in San Jose for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. Security and deception: Lessons from a professional liar. Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secur

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 89

DZone

JUNE 27, 2019

According to Michael Feathers, “Any code that has no tests is a legacy code.” So as a developer it is your duty to avoid creating legacy code by using test-driven development (TDD). There are many tools available for unit testing in ReactJS but we will be going through Enzyme and Jest.

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Testing Code Availability Development 190

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. In this post, we discuss why there are so many metrics, explore what is “the best” metric, and discuss how you can use the Lighthouse Score to better your own performance.

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Metrics Performance Media Google 89

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Dynatrace news. We’re happy to announce the launch of Dynatrace Synthetic private browser monitors! We continue to grow our public synthetic monitoring locations, but customers using Dynatrace Synthetic still need to monitor the performance and availability of internal web applications. One of the most-requested features has been the ability to run synthetic browser monitors on premise.

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Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 154

Edge Perspectives

JUNE 24, 2019

We are becoming more connected with each other and less connected with each other at the same time. The Big Shift that we're experiencing on a global scale is full of paradox – this is just one of many, but a particularly important paradox to acknowledge and address. Let’s explore the forces that are shaping both dimensions of the paradox. More connection.

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Social Media Wireless Media Technology 84

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., HotOS’19. A typical backing store for a web application contains data for many users. The application makes queries on behalf of an authenticated user, but it is up to the application itself to make sure that the user only sees data they are entitled to see. Any frontend can access the whole store, regardless of the application user consuming the results.

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Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

TechBeacon Testing

JUNE 5, 2019

"I don't always test," muses the Most Interesting Man in the World, on one of the most evergreen tech meme posters of all time, "but when I do, I test in production." I have been laughing at that meme ever since someone posted it on the wall at work way back in. 2013? It's hilarious! Since then, "test in prod" has become shorthand for all of the irresponsible ways we interact with production services, or cut corners in our rush to ship.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser. Performance engineers used to have a couple of desktop or servers to simulate hundreds and thousands of users load. Their preferred choice used to be to capture HTTP/s requests using tools like LoadRunner , JMeter , Soasta , and Neoload.

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Performance Testing Performance Cloud Testing 190

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

We’ve written tons of articles giving you step-by-step advice on how to make your website faster – but not everyone wants to go through lots of steps. Many people reach out to us asking what is the #1 most important bang-for-your-buck tip on optimizing your website’s speed. Good news is that we can answer that with a simple response.

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace leverages high-fidelity data to fuel Davis, our AI-driven causation engine for automatic monitoring insights. If you’re already using Davis as a foundation for custom drill-downs or dashboards to answer business-specific questions, you’ll be able to do this even more extensively with Dynatrace version 1.172. We’ve introduced a new framework for metrics that provides (1) a logical tree structure, (2) globally unique metric keys that ease integration bet

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Metrics Monitoring Efficiency Availability 142

KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

WebP has become a popular image format. Therefore, we’ve developed a solution to even better integrate WebP into our service. We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! The new feature integrates into the existing CDN and is available to all customers. We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server.

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Cache Servers Website Traffic 81

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas.

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Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87