Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Dynatrace news. Have you ever received a call from a customer telling you that an application you’re providing is too slow? Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

by Maulik Pandey Our Team?—? Kevin Lew , Narayanan Arunachalam , Elizabeth Carretto , Dustin Haffner , Andrei Ushakov, Seth Katz , Greg Burrell , Ram Vaithilingam , Mike Smith and Maulik Pandey “ @Netflixhelps Why doesn’t Tiger King play on my phone?”?—?a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?

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DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2020

I started coding when I was 8 years old, and I am 46 today. This implies I've got 38 years of software development experience, roughly 25 as a professional - And to be honest with you, the answer to the above question is actually "drugs". But before you dismiss this article, let me elaborate on what exactly I mean. According to research into the human brain, there exists several altered states of consciousness.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Towards an API for the real numbers , Boehm, PLDI’20. Last time out we saw that even in scientific computing applications built by experts, problems with floating point numbers are commonplace. The idiosyncrasies of floating point representations also show up in more everyday applications such as calculators and spreadsheets. Here the user-base is less inclined to be sympathetic: If arithmetic computations and results are directly exposed to human users who are not floating point experts, floati

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Java Hardware Open Source Testing 143

Simform

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If we ask you to think of a Javascript library, there’s a high chance you’ll say React js since it’s been the longest in the business. But React is not the only javascript framework out there. And it definitely is not the right solution for everyone. The post React vs Svelte- A Comprehensive Comparison Between Javascript Libraries appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Addy Osmani

OCTOBER 16, 2020

PRPL is a pattern for structuring and serving web applications and Progressive Web Apps with an emphasis on improved app delivery and launch performance.

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Performance 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Dynatrace news. We’re happy to announce that by opening up Dynatrace OneAgent for integration of custom metrics, Dynatrace has automated alerting on crucial metrics and removes the need to maintain local configurations for StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus—even in the largest of environments, which can include hundreds of thousands of instances and containers.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 259

DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Performance is an integral part of the Application design and plays a vital role in the success of your product/application. This is Part-2 of the performance optimization articles series. Performance optimization considerations for an enterprise-level application are discussed as part of Part-1. Before delving into performance optimization techniques, let us discuss the factors that impact the performance of an application.

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Performance Design Best Practices 213

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The case for a learned sorting algorithm , Kristo, Vaidya, et al., SIGMOD’20. We’ve watched machine learning thoroughly pervade the web giants , make serious headway in large consumer companies , and begin its push into the traditional enterprise. ML, then, is rapidly becoming an integral part of how we build applications of all shapes and sizes. But what about systems software?

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Cache C++ Java Tuning 137

Simform

OCTOBER 1, 2020

PHP and Node.js are two of the major backend technologies that power web applications. PHP is older between the two, so it naturally has a larger community and major projects in its kitty. That said, the PHP community has started realizing a lack of relevant and updated projects. Surprisingly, this is exactly where Node.js is most successful- building a strong user base across projects meant for modern-day use cases. .

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Technology Technology Servers Development 134

Rigor

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today we are excited to announce that Rigor has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Splunk. With the inclusion of Rigor’s Digital Experience Monitoring and Optimization products, we will bring a new dimension of visibility into the world’s most powerful Observability platform, powered by Splunk. In 2010, we. The post Splunk to acquire Rigor appeared first on Rigor.

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Monitoring Performance 116

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Dynatrace news. Observability has become a hot topic these days in the world of monitoring. In this video series, Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research , answers your questions about observability and application monitoring. Watch the series for answers to important questions such as the difference between observability and traditional monitoring and how to shift to modern observability monitoring.

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Strategy Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure 246

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this article, we will learn how to use Apache JMeter to perform a load test on SQL Server. This test type enables us to measure the application behaviors under specific conditions so that it enables us to observe a variety of resource consumptions (CPU, memory, latency, response times, etc) and it also helps to […].

Servers 115

Servers Testing Performance Latency 115

DZone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For a project member, when we heard about API performance tests. Do we always have some questions like what should our standard for API performance? How we can define an automation process for API performance tests? What are the tools we can use? We also had these questions for a project and I come with a solution, which works for us and helped us in terms of time and test effort.

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Google Performance Performance Testing Testing 207

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., SIGCOMM’20. We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Simform

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Read this blog to understand and analyze AWS Lambda pricing. Find out how different it is from EC2 and API Gateway pricing. FIgure out the cost of running a serverless application and what are the potential cost optimization strategies. The post AWS Lambda Pricing: How Much it Costs to Run a Serverless Application? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Strategy 111

Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to a survey conducted on software test automation , 51% of organisations prefer to retrain existing staff in test automation skills. While there are still 49% that would like to hire them specially for test automation related tasks. Other findings from the same survey confirmed that organisations want to move to more of test automation and a minimum of manual testing.

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Testing Programming Software Engineering Software 105

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace recently opened up the enterprise-grade functionalities of Dynatrace OneAgent to all the data needed for observability, including metrics, events, logs, traces, and topology data. Our breakthrough in augmenting open API interfaces like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus now allows customers to feed third-party metrics into Dynatrace and map those metrics into our real-time Smartscape topology.

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Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 246

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In this article, we will explore, how we can increase SQL Server performance with the help of the wait statistics. Wait statistics are one of the most important indicators to identify performance issues in SQL Server. When we want to troubleshoot any performance issue, at first we need to diagnose the problem correctly because correctly […].

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Servers Performance Monitoring 109

DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We founded StormForger Load and Performance Testing SaaS in 2014 and while much has changed since then, one thing hasn't. HTTP is with its 24 years a well-aged fellow among the web protocols.¹ Today we are mostly using HTTP/1.1² or HTTP/2 and if you have fully embraced the new HTTP/2 world in your entire system this article is mostly an anecdote of past issues.

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Performance Testing Testing Systems Performance 207

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Last time out we looked at the real-world deployment of 5G networks and noted the affinity between 5G and edge computing. In true Crocodile Dundee style, Denby and Lucia are entitled to say “that’s not the edge, this is the edge!”. Today’s paper choice has it all: clusters of formation-flying autonomous nanosatellites working in tandem to overcome the physical limitations of spa

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Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

TechBeacon Testing

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Quality assurance and testing pros are facing a new set of challenges with the rise in adoption of scaled agile development models. While agile test strategies come with their own issues, scaling agile adds another level of complexity.

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Testing Strategy Development 105

Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This video actually posted about two weeks ago, but… busy! Sorry. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it. Note that as of this writing the Clang-based prototype implementation on Godbolt is not yet complete, in particular it still needs to implement out and forward parameters.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Dynatrace news. “I’m excited to contact customer support today”. — said no one ever. With a growing product, new end user features every other week, and an ever expanding user base, we at Dynatrace are laser-focused on automating quality and stability, as we see these attributes as our clear competitive differentiators. Everything we build is built with a NoOps mindset, meaning that no traditional operational tasks are necessary to deploy and operate Dynatrace.

Monitoring 234

Monitoring AWS Database Processing 234

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this 33rd article of SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will use extended events to monitor the availability group. Introduction Database professionals’ primary role is to do proactive monitoring for ensuring system availability. DBA must investigate the problem root cause analysis in case any critical event or downtime occurs. You can use […].

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Availability Monitoring Servers Database 107

DZone

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Selenium Grid has been an integral part of automation testing, as it lets you perform test case execution on different combinations of browsers, operating systems (or platforms), and machines. It also enables you to perform parallel execution to expedite the cross-browser testing process. Selenium Grid 4, the successor to Selenium Grid 3, has been in the Alpha stage for the last couple of months.

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Testing Operating System Architecture Performance Testing 199

Simform

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Custom software has garnered more attention in recent years than off-the-shelf software. They are scalable, flexible, and offer a much more personalized experience. But, there is always confusion among CEOs and CTOs on the cost of custom software development? Here, we discuss different factors that can affect custom software development costs and the average price in the market.

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Software Software Development Scalability 98

Tasktop

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If your customers don’t know what’s slowing them down, or why their Agile and DevOps transformations are hitting a wall, then the Flow Partner Program is for you. A leading U.S healthcare leader doubling its feature velocity. A telecom giant changing its outsourcing strategy to negotiate better terms with its service partners. An online investment firm discovering a system bottleneck impeding digital channel innovation; the Flow Framework® is yielding great success at some of the largest and mos

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Programming DevOps Healthcare Strategy 98

Particular Software

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Over the last several months we’ve been noticing that some of our customers were having trouble with the performance of some of their sagas. Invariably, the sagas that were at fault were examples of the scatter-gather pattern, and the ultimate culprit was contention at the storage level due to the optimistic concurrency strategy that was being used.

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Strategy Database Infrastructure Design 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace enables our customers to monitor and optimize their cloud infrastructure and applications through the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. On top of that, our CNCF Open Source project, Keptn , brings cloud automation use cases around progressive delivery and operations to our users enabling our Dynatrace customers to establish a NoOps culture like we have at Dynatrace engineering.

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Cloud Development Open Source Monitoring 234

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It is the 30th article in the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups series and explores column-level SQL Server encryption with AG groups. Introduction We might have sensitive data in our SQL database such as customers’ credit card details, bank account details, social security numbers, and medical history. The sensitive data should be prevented from […].

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Servers Availability Database 105

DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In my experiences of planning for testing in various environments, and across several teams and organizations, the value of that planning was never the document itself; rather, it was the thoughts and consideration of the activities, resources and potential risks and issues yet to be discovered. Thinking deeply about all of those things and writing them down, in whatever form the final document took, was the real value of the exercise.

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Testing Strategy Performance Testing Software 199

Simform

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From in-app calls to social chat integrations, modern applications need robust communication solutions. Twilio and Nexmo(Vonage) both have been at the forefront of providing communication APIs. So, when it comes to Twilio vs. Nexmo(Vonage), there are many factors to consider. Here is a comprehensive comparison between the two CPaaS giants. The post Twilio vs.

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Technology Technology Cloud 97

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! cache things! Make stuff smaller! And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Actual web performance to users are things like how long did I have to wait to see the content on the page?

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Cache Metrics Google Performance Testing 96

Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Adapting to the undefined market conditions of the Novel Economy. Serving customers and supporting employees in a digital-first world. Finding your feet amid a whirlwind of voices and opinions. Knowing where to cast your net in a vast sea of data. Maximizing ROI from delicate budgets. Keeping up with and comprehending ongoing transformations and initiatives.

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Healthcare Innovation Government Best Practices 90

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dynatrace news. As some of you might have seen on LinkedIn, I’ve recently moved back to Australia and spent a couple of weeks in quarantine. However, with time on my hands, I took the opportunity to start putting together a new podcast. It’s focused on telling the stories of those at the coal face of digital transformation. Introducing the Software Intelligence Podcast.

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Software Software Best Practices DevOps 234

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In this 31st article of the SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will explore how you can use the secondary replica SQL database for your workloads. Introduction In a SQL Server Always On Availability Group, we configure two or more instances for high availability and disaster recovery. We configure the SQL listener to […].

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