March, 2021

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23 Node.js Best Practices For Automation Testing

DZone

If you are in the world of software development, you must be aware of Node.js. From Amazon to LinkedIn, a plethora of major websites use Node.js. Powered by JavaScript, Node.js can run on a server, and a majority of devs use it for enterprise applications. As they consider it a very respectable language due to the power it provides them to work with.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 17th, 2021

High Scalability

Hey, HighScalability is here again! Reverse engineering an ancient analog computer is a detective story worth reading. A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. Do you love this Stuff? Without your encouragement on Patreon this Stuff won't stuffin’ stuff. Know someone who needs to know the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.

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Oracle Cloud Breakdown – Database Hosting Costs on OCI

Scalegrid

When considering a new cloud provider, the big names come to mind - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. If you’re a developer, you might even be considering a dev-friendly cloud like DigitalOcean or Linode. But, did you know there’s a (relatively) new player in the cloud game? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cloud computing […].

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ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access

The Netflix TechBlog

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. We’re very excited to bring you ConsoleMe (pronounced: kuhn-soul-mee ), and its CLI utility, Weep (pun intended)! If you missed the talk, check it out here.

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers. HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

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Celebrating 10 years in Japan with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region

All Things Distributed

I am pleased to share that the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region has transitioned from a Local Region into a standard region with three Availability Zones (AZs), a broader (and growing) service portfolio, free tier option, and new pricing options. The region joins the existing 25 AZs in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

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Surveying the Tides of Cloud-Native and Open Source Observability

DZone

We can plausibly say the enterprise development market turned the tide on cloud-native development in 2020, as most net-new software and serious overhaul projects started moving toward microservices architectures, with Kubernetes as the preferred platform. According to the 2020 DevOps Pulse survey of more than a thousand DevOps practitioners from mostly mid-to-large sized development and IT Ops shops, 56% of respondents store more than half their infrastructure in the cloud, while 42% store 75%

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ScaleGrid Adds Oracle Cloud for Managed Database Hosting

Scalegrid

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 30, 2021 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) through their fully managed database hosting plans. In addition to their AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) and DigitalOcean hosting solutions, ScaleGrid now offers OCI hosting for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Stephanie Lane , Wenjing Zheng , Mihir Tendulkar Source credit: Netflix Within the rapid expansion of data-related roles in the last decade, the title Data Scientist has emerged as an umbrella term for myriad skills and areas of business focus. What does this title mean within a given company, or even within a given industry? It can be hard to know from the outside.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Dynatrace OS support policies

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Are you responsible for deployment of Dynatrace OneAgents, ActiveGates, or Dynatrace Managed clusters? Do you keep an eye on the support of distributions and versions of operating systems within your environment? If so, then this article is for you! In addition to answering basic questions about OS support, this blog post serves as a consolidated reference of all the related publications that we update and publish on a regular basis.

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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support.

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7 Top Kubernetes Health Metrics You Must Monitor

DZone

Kubernetes is one of the most popular choices for container management and automation today. A highly efficient Kubernetes setup generates innumerable new metrics every day, making monitoring cluster health quite challenging. You might find yourself sifting through several different metrics without being entirely sure which ones are the most insightful and warrant utmost attention.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores. Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-03-19T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-03-19T15:28:04+00:00. There is always something happening behind the scenes at Smashing. Over the last months, we’ve been continuously working around the performance of the site , but we’ve also removed floating labels from our forms, redesigned our error messages, revamped our Membership dashboard , refactored and adjusted our responsive tables and

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Number series generator challenge solutions – Part 3

SQL Performance

This is the third part in a series about solutions to the number series generator challenge. In Part 1 I covered solutions that generate the rows on the fly. In Part 2 I covered solutions that query a physical base table that you prepopulate with rows. This month I’m going to focus on a fascinating technique that can be used to handle our challenge, but that also has interesting applications well beyond it.

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Scaling Revenue & Growth Tooling

The Netflix TechBlog

Written by Nick Tomlin , Michael Possumato , and Rahul Pilani. This post shares how the Revenue & Growth Tools (RGT) team approaches creating full-stack tools for the teams that are the financial backbone of Netflix. Our primary partners are the teams of Revenue and Growth Engineering (RGE): Growth, Membership, Billing, Payments, and Partner Subscription.

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Securely scale your API operations with personal access tokens

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Used properly, APIs can unlock genuine digital transformation and free you up to focus on the unique value your organization delivers. Dynatrace v2 APIs make it as easy as possible to get started with monitoring automation and to solve your business problems with data-driven answers. Top use-cases cover: Monitoring metrics in build pipelines for remediation efforts.

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Stimulus, response, check: The core of test automation

TechBeacon Testing

In a 1970s commercial, a boy asked a wise owl, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The owl, who was obviously a tester, decided to see how many licks it would take; in a humorous twist, he concluded that the answer was three. But on the third "lick," he crunched down on the pop and ate the candy.

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Nginx: Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing

DZone

You might have seen many articles on the internet regarding Nginx and how we can use Nginx for load balancing and reverse proxy. In this article, I would like to share my experience of setting up Nginx for load balancing and reverse proxy with SSL termination in Nginx. Are Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer Similar? Though both terminologies sound similar, a reverse proxy accepts requests from clients and forwards the request to servers for the actual processing.

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Tricking WCV

CSS - Tricks

Google has said that Web Core Vitals ( WCV ) are going to be an SEO factor, and the date is nigh: May 2021. So, I’m seeing some scrambling to make sure those metrics are good. Ya know, the acronym soup: CLS , LCP , and FID. There is starting to be more and more tooling to measure and diagnose problems. Hopefully, once diagnosed, you have some idea how to fix them.

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Fallacy #7: Transport cost is zero

Particular Software

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost. Companies today have, for the most part, accepted this as just another cost of doing business in the modern world.

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Use the Davis® AI to detect outages within your custom data streams

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In today’s complex IT environments, the sheer volume of data created makes it impossible for humans to monitor, comprehend, or troubleshoot problems before they impact the experience of your end users. Dynatrace Davis® AI has proven over the past four years that a fully automated approach to problem analysis is the only valid approach—especially in highly dynamic, web-scale cloud environments where manual root cause analysis is impossible.

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Continuous testing: What every DevOps teams needs to know

TechBeacon Testing

Imagine you work for a company that has hundreds of developers pushing new code to production at any time, on any given day. The developers get there because every person on the dev team has a role in quality and testing.

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Using Azure Front Door for Eliminating Preflight Calls (CORS)

DZone

What is CORS. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a security mechanism built-in most modern browsers to restrict accessing resources from a server hosted on a different domain. Using CORS techniques, servers can limit the sharing of data to only trusted domains. Assume you have a frontend website hosted on [link] Some JavaScript code from your website is trying to access an API hosted on [link] This is an example of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing because the requesting domain and the resource

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Remote (Work From Home) Survey 2021: 82% US-based Companies Offer Permanent WFH

Simform

Remote working is no longer a luxury but the need of the art as far as workplaces are concerned. Many big organizations have taken the decision to allow remote working as a permanent mode of working. The question is, where do the employer as well as the employee go from here on? Let's find out that with our detailed survey on remote working that has amazing insights.

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Forrester TEI™ Study Shows Tasktop Can Deliver a Customer ROI of 496% Over Three Years With a Payback Period of Less Than 3 Months

Tasktop

I am pleased to share the findings of a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact study that evaluates the cost savings and business benefits enabled by Tasktop’s value stream management (VSM) platform, Tasktop Viz. We commissioned this study to quantify and share what our customers were already telling us – that we were dramatically changing how they do business by improving how they manage their software delivery at scale.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.212

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. General. Dynatrace Managed cluster can now be installed in Rack aware managed deployment for even higher availability and resilience. Rack-aware deployment ensures that no replica is stored redundantly inside a singular rack (a group of cluster nodes) so that replicas are spread around through racks. In case one rack goes down, the other two full replicas are available, ensuring data consistency and availability.

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Test automation tools: 8 trends and techniques to watch

TechBeacon Testing

To realize the benefits of test automation, organizations have to take full advantage of smarter tools, according to the The World Quality Report 2020–2021.

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Software Testing Expert Roundup: 2021 Edition

DZone

It’s been some time since we published our last expert roundup , so we wanted to ask around in our community how leaders in testing are feeling these days about work (as we enter the second year of the pandemic), new trends they’re seeing on the horizon and advice for upping one’s testing game in 2021!

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Comparing Nodejs vs Java: Your Backend Tech Stacks Explained

Simform

If you want to compare two powerful backend technologies: Node.js vs. Java and are also excited to read about how Netflix migrated from Java to Node.js, read this article. It will introduce you to why Java is still relevant in the times of modern and scalable Node.js. And what are the areas where Node.js outperforms Java? and that will help you decide on the backend technology for your next project.

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Symptoms of the Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server

SQL Shack

In this article, we will focus on how we can detect the parameter sniffing issues with different techniques. Introduction Sometimes very surprising problems can arise for database administrators while working on an ordinary working day and they cannot understand these problems. For instance, the sales department calls and starts to complain about the performance of […].

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What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. While this mission is easy enough to understand, applications aren’t as simple as they used to be, and ensuring they are secure has become more challenging.

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Testing for bias in your AI software: Why it's needed, how to do it

TechBeacon Testing

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in testing, much of the interest and innovation today revolves around the concept of using these technologies to improve and accelerate the practice of testing. The more interesting problem lies in how you should go about testing the AI/ML applications themselves. In particular, how can you tell whether or not a response is correct?

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10 of the Best PHP Testing Frameworks for 2021

DZone

A framework is a collection or set of tools and processes that work together to support testing and developmental activities. It contains various utility libraries, reusable modules, test data setup, and other dependencies. Be it web development or testing, there are multiple frameworks that can enhance your team’s efficiency and productivity. Web testing, in particular, has a plethora of frameworks, and selecting a framework that suits your needs depends on your language of choice.

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