November, 2020

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Leverage the new Problems API to resolve Dynatrace-detected issues faster in your third-party tools

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace v2 APIs transform your entire organization by making it easy to get started with monitoring automation and to solve your business problems with data-driven answers. A few months ago we wrote about how you can scale your API operations with our version 2 APIs , by showing off the Dynatrace Metrics API v2 and the Monitored entities API v2.

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Java vs. Python Comparison: The Battle of Best Programming Language in 2021

DZone

Comparing two programming languages is similar to a comparison between two cars, where two different individuals may have different opinions on both of them. Well, as starters, computer programming languages have come a long way since their inception. Today, everything we dwell upon has to have a programming language behind it, easing away our troubles.

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ShiftLeft on Refactoring a Live SaaS Environment

High Scalability

This is guest a post by Preetam Jinka , Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. Originally published here. ShiftLeft NextGen Static Analysis (NG SAST) is a software-as-a-service static analysis solution that allows developers to scan every pull request for security issues. Earlier this year we released Secrets, Security Insights, and a v4 API. Secrets and Security Insights are two new types of results we extract from code analysis, and the V4 API is a brand new RESTful JSON API with an Open

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Grüezi Schwiiz! Bonjour la Suisse! Buongiorno Svizzera! An AWS Region comes to Switzerland

All Things Distributed

Today I’m happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Switzerland in the second half of 2022. When the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region is launched, developers, start-ups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations will be able to run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in Switzerland.

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Redis on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid for Redis™ vs. Azure Cache

Scalegrid

Redis is an advanced key-value store. In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has the ability to persist data on disk. Redis is a great caching solution for highly demanding applications, and there are […].

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Effective Skeleton Screens

Tim Kadlec

When I first stumbled on the idea of skeleton screens, thanks to Luke Wroblewski talking about them back in 2013 , I latched onto them pretty quickly. I have never been a fan of progress bars and spinners, and skeleton screens seemed like a smart step in the right direction. For those unfamiliar, a skeleton screen is a method of displaying the outline (skeleton) of the content to come, typically using gray boxes and lines instead of a progress bar while content is loading.

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Accelerate transformation with automated observability for Google Cloud Platform

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. As a leader in cloud infrastructure and platform services , the Google Cloud Platform is fast becoming an integral part of many enterprises’ cloud strategies. At Dynatrace, we’re seeing this adoption within our customer base, which is driven largely by the increase in Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects. However, as businesses migrate to the Google Cloud Platform, they’re faced with even more complex, distributed environments that are inherently diffic

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 6th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, no power outages this week, so it's finally HighScalability time! Stunning: Tycho Crater Region with Colours by Alain Paillou. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 189 mostly 5 star reviews.

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How the Seahawks are using a data lake to improve their game

All Things Distributed

Growing up in the Netherlands, American football was largely a foreign concept to me. My version of football was The Beautiful Game , or as most Americans know it, soccer. Football, futbol, soccer, or whatever else you call it, will always be something I’m deeply passionate about, especially my hometown team, Ajax. When I joined Amazon and Seattle became my new home, I began to see how my colleagues shared this same level of passion for American football – and particularly the fervent fans known

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21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon Testing

It's a strange time. We work from home. Political messages have invaded our social media. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.

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Proxying Cloudinary Requests with Netlify

Tim Kadlec

My site (and several other side projects) is hosted on Netlify, so I had been eagerly awaiting access to Netlify Edge. I’ve been pretty vocal about my excitement for edge computing solutions , and having access to one right within Netlify would be very handy. One of the first things I planned to do once I had access was switch my images to be housed on Cloudinary , and then use Netlify Edge to proxy the requests through my own domain.

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What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. Today’s IT infrastructures combine on-premise data centers, servers, and mainframes with highly dynamic multi-cloud environments, with microservices running in containers, spanning multiple clouds and hybrid infrastructure.

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API Testing Using Python Script

DZone

Are you trying to test API in your project without a tool? Here comes the Requests library, one of the powerful and standard libraries in Python. Overview: In this article, we will understand how to do API testing using simple python scripts. We shall make use of the Requests library of python to handle HTTP requests. The simple import of this library and any IDE ( eclipse,pycharm, IntelliJ) would suffice, and there is no need for any specific tool to accomplish API testing.

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Sponsored Post: IP2Location, Ipdata, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart.

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Understanding Climate Change Using High Performance Computing and Machine Learning

All Things Distributed

D Watson-Parris and NASA Worldview. As the COVID pandemic continues to sequester many of us to our homes, our everyday behaviors have come mostly to a collective halt. The immediate effects are obvious, as cities, roads, and public spaces have emptied. Reports of nature intermingling with spaces once claimed by humans have amazed audiences worldwide.

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Why is my GTmetrix Performance Score different from PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, and web.dev?

Gtmetrix

We explain why your GTmetrix Performance Score may be different from other Lighthouse-based tools. Overview The GTmetrix Performance Score is generated using Google Lighthouse and should be broadly similar to the Performance scores reported by other web performance tools. However, there can sometimes be considerable differences in the GTmetrix Performance Score compared to what you […].

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Explore dynamic management views for monitoring SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 36th article for SQL Server Always On series, we will explore various dynamic management views (DMV’s) for monitoring the AG replicas. Introduction SQL Server Always On Availability Groups gives you the ability to safeguard the SQL databases and implements a solution for high-availability and disaster recovery. Once we implement a HADR solution, the […].

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Celebrating partnerships and excellence with the Dynatrace 2020 Partner Awards

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. We’re not going to let a global pandemic come between Dynatrace and our partners. Not being able to host our partner enablement summits in-person around the world enabled us to go fully digital, bringing Amplify to your home offices, living rooms, basements, garages, and anywhere else you find yourselves working these days. While we missed seeing our partners in person, networking, socializing, and having fun learning together, the virtual event format catered for four time zones

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6 of the Best API Testing Tools in the Market

DZone

API test is a significant part of a successful Continuous Integration/ DevOps practice. As per Google Trends , the interest in Web/ API services tests has been progressively growing over the few decades. According to SmartBear research over 3,372 software professionals in API test over 2019, 91 percent of participants either presently have, or thinking to have a formal API test procedure in place in the coming future.

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Sponsored Post: IP2Location, Ipdata, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart.

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WordPress Cache Enabler Plugin Updates

KeyCDN

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. We did this because we wanted to give back to the WordPress community in the offering of a caching solution that was not complicated and most importantly, free. This plugin was initially released as a lightweight caching plugin that was able to speed up WordPress websites by generating static HTML files that could then be minified and even converted for WebP support.

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4 elements of a highly effective continuous testing strategy

TechBeacon Testing

Often, when organizations plan and implement an effective test automation strategy, they believe that they are implementing continuous testing. They are wrong.

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First Input Delay: How vital is it?

Speed Curve

We’ve been pretty vocal about Core Web Vitals since Google announced this initiative last spring. We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. For many site owners, the increased focus on Core Web Vitals is driven by the fact that Google will be including them as a factor in search ranking in May 2021.

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Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for container orchestration as it solves many problems, like distributing workloads across machines, achieving fault tolerance, and re-scheduling workloads when problems occur. While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent.

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JMeter + Pepper-Box Plugin for Kafka Performance Testing to Choose or Not to Choose?

DZone

Agenda for This Article. Several words about Apache Kafka. How to start Kafka performance testing with JMeter + Pepper-Box plugin ? Is it possible to write samplers for JMeter on your own to provide Kafka performance testing? Pros and cons. W hen it is necessary to choose between the Pepper-Box plugin and your own Kafka load samplers for JMeter. Conclusion.

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I was scoring well with the Legacy GTmetrix before but now my grades have dropped. Why?

Gtmetrix

Learn why your grades may have dropped on the new GTmetrix Report even though you were scoring well on the Legacy Reports. Overview Following our Lighthouse update, some users with good scores for PageSpeed/YSlow on the Legacy Reports may now be seeing poor grades on the new GTmetrix Report. We’ve written this article to explain […].

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Flutter vs NativeScript: Everything You Need to Know

Simform

What would be your choice if you are in the dilemma of choosing between a framework developed by Google and a framework that functions based on JavaScript to build a native mobile application? Your decision would depend upon factors such as the architecture, testing ability, security measures, learning curves, and so much more. This article focuses on helping you decide the best framework between Flutter vs.

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Making the Switch to Apica Synthetic Monitoring

Apica

Application Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range Read More. The post Making the Switch to Apica Synthetic Monitoring appeared first on Apica.

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PPC Optimization: Smart Display Campaigns

Website Optimization

Like Smart Search Campaigns do for Search Campaigns, Smart Display Campaigns automate much of the semi-manual process of setting up and running a regular display campaign in Google Ads. The Google Display network has a vast reach of over 2 million sites reaching 90% of the people on the Internet. Display ads appear in many different formats targeted at your desired audience or content and context.

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Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 1: StatsD)

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Welcome to the blog series where we give you a deeper dive into the latest awesomeness around Dynatrace : how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus. In this post we’ll explore how you can use the Davis AI to analyze your StatsD metrics.

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An In-Depth Explanation of Code Complexity

DZone

It's no secret code is a complicated thing to write, debug, and maintain which is necessary for high software quality. Moreover, high code complexity brings with it a higher level of code defects, making the code costlier to maintain. So, by reducing code complexity, we can reduce the number of bugs and defects, along with its lifetime cost. What exactly is complex code?

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Everything you need to know about the new GTmetrix Report (powered by Lighthouse)

Gtmetrix

We’re excited to present a detailed look at the new GTmetrix Report – powered by Lighthouse! Overview GTmetrix has undergone its biggest change yet, replacing the PageSpeed/YSlow libraries with Lighthouse, the industry standard in web performance. With GTmetrix now being powered by Lighthouse, the new GTmetrix Report has been redesigned extensively to incorporate the […].

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Top 10 Twilio Alternatives: A Guide to Choose Communication APIs for your Project

Simform

Twilio is a market leader in the communication space, but it is not perfect and has issues around technicalities. Here, we explore the ten top Twilio alternatives for the communication needs of your business. The post Top 10 Twilio Alternatives: A Guide to Choose Communication APIs for your Project appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Custom policies for AG dashboards of SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 35th article in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we will implement a custom policy for monitoring AG groups. Introduction The previous article, The Hub and Spoke model of Policy-based Management for SQL Server Always On Availability Group explores the following topics: Policy-Based Management (PBM) components AG replica health model Explore PBM policy […].

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QA's role broadens: 5 takeaways from the World Quality Report

TechBeacon Testing

The role of quality assurance (QA) continues to evolve and broaden within the enterprise, with QA's mission extending far beyond just testing software for defects. These days QA also guards software's fulfillment of strategic and business objectives.

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OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. The OpenTelemetry community is working hard towards a first GA release of the OpenTelemetry project. Reaching another milestone in their journey, last month the OpenTelemetry community announced the freeze and first release candidate of the tracing specification. With the arrival of this release candidate (RC), the community’s focus now shifts to providing tracing RC component releases, as well as producing a metrics specification RC.

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Robot Framework With Selenium and Python: All You Need to Know

DZone

With 5000+ stars and 1500+ forks on GitHub, the Robot framework has been a go-to option for many organizations who are aiming for Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) where developers should write functional code only when there is a test that has failed. The robot framework allows acceptance testing, behavior-driven testing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).