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Last month I posted a challenge to create an efficient number series generator. The responses were overwhelming. There were many brilliant ideas and suggestions, with lots of applications well beyond this particular challenge. MORE
For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role. MORE
The notions of accountability and responsibility often pop up in the context of business, as if both of those ideas are good things. A culture of accountability, we’re told, is essential to running a business. MORE
Dynatrace news. MORE
In this 40th article on SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will discuss logins synchronization between replicas. Introduction SQL Server Always On Availability Groups provides high availability and disaster recovery solution for SQL databases. MORE
Overview. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is an open source, fast, and reliable solution that provides load balancer and reverse proxy features for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. HAProxy load balancer handles heavy load traffic and reroutes requests seamlessly across multiple servers. HAProxy also supports the following features: cloud aws ec2 load balancer haproxy MORE
Why Software Testing Is Important. An average mobile app contains about 50,000 lines of code, Microsoft Windows operating system has about 50 million lines of code, while Google’s entire code base is estimated to contain 2 billion lines of code. If you take an average of 15–50 defects per KLOC (Kilo Lines of Code), that adds up to a lot of work for software testers before a product is released into the market. So how does the software tester decide what to test? How to test? MORE
Client-side A/B testing has been a performance loving developer’s worst friend for years. The way it works is you load in some JavaScript (typically from a third-party domain), and that JavaScript runs, applying the experiments you’re running for any given situation. MORE
Dynatrace news. In my last blog article, I answered the question “What is OpenTelemetry?” , with the goal of providing a high-level overview of the OpenTelemetry project and answer some of the most commonly asked questions. MORE
Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. MORE
Our attention span has decreased over time. Online, if a page loads slowly, people are quick to go to a competitor’s site. They have no patience for slow websites. Businesses that fail to realize this can lose a lot of money after racking up negative reviews from customers. MORE
Dynatrace news. DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. MORE
The only way to keep the Dutch at home is by grounding their offspring , as our government has discovered twice over. So, after spending two weeks dreading the end of the holiday season, last week marked the start of the second homeschooling season in a year. MORE
The last decade has seen a relentless push to deliver software faster. MORE
Heap Dumps are vital artifacts to diagnose memory-related problems such as slow memory leaks, Garbage Collection problems, and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.They are also vital artifacts to optimize the memory consumption. There are great tools like Eclipse MAT and Heap Hero to analyze heap dumps. However, you need to provide these tools with heap dumps captured in the correct format. This article gives you multiple options to capture heap dumps. MORE
Introducing a new Performance Heads-Up Display (HUD) to Chrome and Chrome for Android MORE
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The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management platform —Tasktop Hub 21.1—is is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: The ability to take action on specific artifacts pairs. MORE
How do you feel when an application on your device starts breaking but it works just fine on your friend’s smartphone? You reload the browser and wait for the website to load. When it does, it does not feel right. All the features are not visible or you cannot click them. MORE
Dynatrace news. The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. Still, this model is not ideal in every situation. MORE
Dynatrace news. What is OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud platform. It offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack – the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications – on any cloud. MORE
Programming is all about solving issues and problems. There is an end number of programming issues that the developers face when they are writing code for developing a website, applications, or any other type of software. Programming problems can be listed and are sorted based on various categories of programming languages used like PHP, Java, Python, C++, and many others, which developers use for coding. MORE
In this article, we will explore how the ORDER BY statement affects the query performance and we will also learn some performance tips related to sorting operations in SQL Server. MORE
Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. Because there are so many to choose from, pinpointing the right frontend framework can be tricky. MORE
It goes without saying that the usage of smartphones has been soaring all around the globe. In fact, a report by Statista suggests that the overall count of mobile phones all over the world is expected to be a whopping 3.8 billion by 2021 which is around half of the world’s population. MORE
Mobile phones have taken over the world in a way few technologies and inventions have been able to in the past. The far-reaching repercussions of such a widely accepted adoption can be felt in all fields of life, from education to tourism. MORE
By Phill Williams and Vijay Gondi Introduction At Netflix, we are passionate about delivering great audio to our members. We began streaming 5.1 channel surround sound in 2010, Dolby Atmos in 2017 , and adaptive bitrate audio in 2019. MORE
The meteoric emergence of smartphones is nothing short of phenomenal, as a growing number of consumers are leveraging the potential offered by the smartphone ecosystem. As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. MORE
Who's Hiring? Looking to rapidly hire Top Software Developers ? Get Started with Toptal. Toptal will match you with top-quality, pre-screened freelance software developers that meet your project requirements. All in under 48 hours. Get started right away with a no risk trial. 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. MORE
Have you heard the hype around k6 yet? Yes, yet another open source performance testing tool is making waves. In this post, I’ll share my k6 review in. The post k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. MORE
Fleet vehicle maintenance has evolved with time - right from reactive to preventive to now predictive, there has been a paradigm shift in maintenance. MORE
Consider that you’re running a web service that requires input and delivers it to another backend service. If the backend service is not available for some time, then what kind of fail-proof system should you implement? This is where the Circuit Breaker design pattern comes in. Let’s think about a situation where a request goes to a middleware application and you need to call another remote backend service. MORE
One thing that jumped out while working on the JavaScript chapter of the Web Almanac was the incredibly high amount of time spent processing JavaScript on the median mobile page where Ember.js was detected. The story was the same when I wrote The Cost of JS Frameworks. ). MORE
Who's Hiring? Looking to rapidly hire Top Software Developers ? Get Started with Toptal. Toptal will match you with top-quality, pre-screened freelance software developers that meet your project requirements. All in under 48 hours. Get started right away with a no risk trial. 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. MORE
As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. In Geography, continents are a higher order abstraction that allow us to collectively describe a large number of countries in a single word. MORE
Auditing in information technology (IT) is a process of examining an organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure compliance with the requirements imposed by recognized standards or established policies. MORE
In this article, we will discuss how to read the SQL Server execution plan (query plan) with all aspects through an example, so we will gain some practical experience that helps to solve query performance issues. MORE
Dynatrace news. IT, DevOps, and SRE teams are racing to keep up with the ever-expanding complexity of modern enterprise cloud ecosystems and the business demands they are designed to support. Leaders in tech are calling for radical change. MORE
There are features many of us shy away from, like cursors, triggers, and dynamic SQL. There is no question they each have their use cases, but when we see a trigger with a cursor inside dynamic SQL, it can make us cringe (triple whammy). MORE
Scalegrid
JANUARY 14, 2021
Auditing in information technology (IT) is a process of examining an organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure compliance with the requirements imposed by recognized standards or established policies.
The Netflix TechBlog
JANUARY 22, 2021
By Phill Williams and Vijay Gondi Introduction At Netflix, we are passionate about delivering great audio to our members. We began streaming 5.1 channel surround sound in 2010, Dolby Atmos in 2017 , and adaptive bitrate audio in 2019.
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Dynatrace
JANUARY 12, 2021
Dynatrace news.
DZone
JANUARY 14, 2021
Heap Dumps are vital artifacts to diagnose memory-related problems such as slow memory leaks, Garbage Collection problems, and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.They are also vital artifacts to optimize the memory consumption. There are great tools like Eclipse MAT and Heap Hero to analyze heap dumps. However, you need to provide these tools with heap dumps captured in the correct format. This article gives you multiple options to capture heap dumps.
Allen Holub
JANUARY 23, 2021
The notions of accountability and responsibility often pop up in the context of business, as if both of those ideas are good things. A culture of accountability, we’re told, is essential to running a business.
Abstracta
JANUARY 23, 2021
Have you heard the hype around k6 yet? Yes, yet another open source performance testing tool is making waves. In this post, I’ll share my k6 review in. The post k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
SQL Shack
JANUARY 28, 2021
In this article, we will discuss how to read the SQL Server execution plan (query plan) with all aspects through an example, so we will gain some practical experience that helps to solve query performance issues.
Technology Performance Pulse brings together the best content for technology performance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Dynatrace
JANUARY 26, 2021
Dynatrace news. DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo.
DZone
JANUARY 10, 2021
Consider that you’re running a web service that requires input and delivers it to another backend service. If the backend service is not available for some time, then what kind of fail-proof system should you implement? This is where the Circuit Breaker design pattern comes in. Let’s think about a situation where a request goes to a middleware application and you need to call another remote backend service.
Addy Osmani
JANUARY 20, 2021
Introducing a new Performance Heads-Up Display (HUD) to Chrome and Chrome for Android
InfoQ Articles
JANUARY 12, 2021
Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks.
SQL Shack
JANUARY 5, 2021
In this article, we will explore how the ORDER BY statement affects the query performance and we will also learn some performance tips related to sorting operations in SQL Server.
TechBeacon Testing
JANUARY 8, 2021
The last decade has seen a relentless push to deliver software faster.
Dynatrace
JANUARY 12, 2021
Dynatrace news. IT, DevOps, and SRE teams are racing to keep up with the ever-expanding complexity of modern enterprise cloud ecosystems and the business demands they are designed to support. Leaders in tech are calling for radical change.
DZone
JANUARY 5, 2021
Why Software Testing Is Important. An average mobile app contains about 50,000 lines of code, Microsoft Windows operating system has about 50 million lines of code, while Google’s entire code base is estimated to contain 2 billion lines of code. If you take an average of 15–50 defects per KLOC (Kilo Lines of Code), that adds up to a lot of work for software testers before a product is released into the market. So how does the software tester decide what to test? How to test?
High Scalability
JANUARY 25, 2021
Who's Hiring? Looking to rapidly hire Top Software Developers ? Get Started with Toptal. Toptal will match you with top-quality, pre-screened freelance software developers that meet your project requirements. All in under 48 hours. Get started right away with a no risk trial. 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.
Testsigma
JANUARY 12, 2021
How do you feel when an application on your device starts breaking but it works just fine on your friend’s smartphone? You reload the browser and wait for the website to load. When it does, it does not feel right. All the features are not visible or you cannot click them.
SQL Shack
JANUARY 21, 2021
In this 40th article on SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will discuss logins synchronization between replicas. Introduction SQL Server Always On Availability Groups provides high availability and disaster recovery solution for SQL databases.
Tim Kadlec
JANUARY 12, 2021
Client-side A/B testing has been a performance loving developer’s worst friend for years. The way it works is you load in some JavaScript (typically from a third-party domain), and that JavaScript runs, applying the experiments you’re running for any given situation.
Dynatrace
JANUARY 5, 2021
Dynatrace news. What is OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud platform. It offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack – the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications – on any cloud.
DZone
JANUARY 13, 2021
The only way to keep the Dutch at home is by grounding their offspring , as our government has discovered twice over. So, after spending two weeks dreading the end of the holiday season, last week marked the start of the second homeschooling season in a year.
High Scalability
JANUARY 5, 2021
Who's Hiring? Looking to rapidly hire Top Software Developers ? Get Started with Toptal. Toptal will match you with top-quality, pre-screened freelance software developers that meet your project requirements. All in under 48 hours. Get started right away with a no risk trial. 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.
Testsigma
JANUARY 21, 2021
It goes without saying that the usage of smartphones has been soaring all around the globe. In fact, a report by Statista suggests that the overall count of mobile phones all over the world is expected to be a whopping 3.8 billion by 2021 which is around half of the world’s population.
KeyCDN
JANUARY 14, 2021
Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Due to their popularity, a wide array of frontend frameworks are available, and new ones emerge on a regular basis. Because there are so many to choose from, pinpointing the right frontend framework can be tricky.
InfoQ
JANUARY 11, 2021
For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role.
Dynatrace
JANUARY 26, 2021
Dynatrace news. The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. Still, this model is not ideal in every situation.
DZone
JANUARY 28, 2021
Overview. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is an open source, fast, and reliable solution that provides load balancer and reverse proxy features for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. HAProxy load balancer handles heavy load traffic and reroutes requests seamlessly across multiple servers. HAProxy also supports the following features: cloud aws ec2 load balancer haproxy
TechBeacon Testing
JANUARY 21, 2021
Our attention span has decreased over time. Online, if a page loads slowly, people are quick to go to a competitor’s site. They have no patience for slow websites. Businesses that fail to realize this can lose a lot of money after racking up negative reviews from customers.
Testsigma
JANUARY 29, 2021
The meteoric emergence of smartphones is nothing short of phenomenal, as a growing number of consumers are leveraging the potential offered by the smartphone ecosystem. As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users.
Strategic Tech
JANUARY 24, 2021
As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. In Geography, continents are a higher order abstraction that allow us to collectively describe a large number of countries in a single word.
SQL Performance
JANUARY 11, 2021
There are features many of us shy away from, like cursors, triggers, and dynamic SQL. There is no question they each have their use cases, but when we see a trigger with a cursor inside dynamic SQL, it can make us cringe (triple whammy).
Dynatrace
JANUARY 6, 2021
Dynatrace news. In my last blog article, I answered the question “What is OpenTelemetry?” , with the goal of providing a high-level overview of the OpenTelemetry project and answer some of the most commonly asked questions.
DZone
JANUARY 7, 2021
Programming is all about solving issues and problems. There is an end number of programming issues that the developers face when they are writing code for developing a website, applications, or any other type of software. Programming problems can be listed and are sorted based on various categories of programming languages used like PHP, Java, Python, C++, and many others, which developers use for coding.
Tim Kadlec
JANUARY 26, 2021
One thing that jumped out while working on the JavaScript chapter of the Web Almanac was the incredibly high amount of time spent processing JavaScript on the median mobile page where Ember.js was detected. The story was the same when I wrote The Cost of JS Frameworks. ).
Testsigma
JANUARY 13, 2021
Mobile phones have taken over the world in a way few technologies and inventions have been able to in the past. The far-reaching repercussions of such a widely accepted adoption can be felt in all fields of life, from education to tourism.
Tasktop
JANUARY 19, 2021
The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management platform —Tasktop Hub 21.1—is is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: The ability to take action on specific artifacts pairs.
Simform
JANUARY 29, 2021
Fleet vehicle maintenance has evolved with time - right from reactive to preventive to now predictive, there has been a paradigm shift in maintenance.
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