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How to ensure payment gateway problems don’t become business problems

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. If you conduct business on the web, you’re likely dealing with multiple payment gateway providers. One single payment provider issue can undo HUNDREDS of hours spent optimizing the critical user journeys of your mobile or web applications, designed to encourage users to progress through the funnel and complete a purchase. This could be adding high-quality graphics, running A/B testing to make UX tweaks, or deploying new code to make it perform better.

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Dev Tools to the Rescue – Part 1

DZone

Whether you are a software developer working on someone else’s projects or you run a business yourself, utilizing the right tools of the trade is essential. The market of software development tools is an ever-changing one and increasingly competitive. It’s a tough task to decide which one is best suited for you.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Dhevi Rajendran is a Data Engineer on the Growth Data Science and Engineering team. Dhevi joined Netflix in July 2020 and is one of many Data Engineers who have onboarded remotely during the pandemic.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision.

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What is APM?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

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Dev Tools to the Rescue – Part 2

DZone

In my previous article Dev Tools to the Rescue – Part 1 , we looked at some of the best developer tools for software development, project management, continuous delivery/integrity, designing, testing, etc. In this article, we’ll continue with tools that are helpful for purposes like monitoring, analysis, cloud development, security, etc.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team. Samuel and his team build tools and frameworks that support data engineering teams across Netflix.

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AIOps, observability and a side of Whisky

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Buzz words are ever omnipresent within technology and, of course, the APM space is no different. Over the last few years, AIOps and observability have come charging into this domain and Dynatrace took some time to discuss the differences and what they mean with our community during a recent event of ours, sampling whisky. Alois Reitbauer, VP Chief Technology Strategist at Dynatrace drew many comparisons between the process of crafting whisky and building out an effective observab

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Why Developers Need Full-Stack Observability

DZone

Introduction. In 2021, applications are now the entryways most businesses use to connect to customers, and while this accelerated with the pandemic, it began long ago and will continue into the future. Seamless performance for these applications can mean the difference between gaining a loyal customer or losing trust. The threat of developer burnout, and application issues, are both very real and there are a few key practices that organizations can implement to support developers and set their t

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone. In fact, there are many types of tests and perhaps that is where some of the initial fear or confusion comes from. I’m going to cover the most popular and widely used types of tests in this article.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Jennifer Brehm. 2021-06-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Tangible signs of work well done are always appreciated.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.218

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Clickwrap agreement. Starting with Dynatrace Managed version 1.218, a Master Subscription Agreement (MSA), or “clickwrap” agreement, can be displayed to new users. For details on managing clickwrap display, see Clickwrap agreement. New features and enhancements. General. Cluster backups that use local disk storage are no longer supported and will be disabled after the upgrade to version 1.218.

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Software Testing Errors to look out for (with examples)

Testsigma

The software will never be bug-free. But, it’s important to minimize the number of bugs such that the impact on functionality and user experience of an application is minimized. Bugs could come up due to different reasons, in this article, we will discuss them from the perspective of software errors. These are the errors that also need attention during the testing phase.

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Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You

CSS - Tricks

Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore. I know what it means. It means to put only the CSS required to render things immediately visible in a <style> tag in the <head> so it comes across in the first network request, then load the rest asynchronously , which will help the page load faster.

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Serverless for Startups: An Evolutionary Way to Build Successful Products

Simform

A startup is always looking to improve the user experience through unique features. During the several iterations of a startup app, development and deployments need to be quick. Serverless architecture not only improves the time-to-market but offers optimal resource management allowing startups to focus on their product development. Here, we have discussed the evolution of serverless, its benefits for startups, and some of the best platforms for your business.

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. More applications now rely on containers and microservices than ever before. According to the 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey , 92 percent of organizations are using containers in production, and 83 percent of these use Kubernetes as their preferred container management solution. With apps growing larger and more complex by the day, IT teams will require tools to help manage these deployments.

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Fighting Pandemic Fatigue by Safely Experimenting With Engineering Team Structures

Tasktop

In this fourth installment of our Tasty Dog Food Series , we continue to share stories of how we at Tasktop are using our own product, Tasktop Viz , to boost our growth and happiness. Tasktop Viz is a value stream management solution that measures and optimizes the flow of business value in software delivery organizations. . This time, I spoke to John Simoes, our Engineering Manager on the Tasktop value stream responsible for Flow Fabric , which connects Tasktop’s VSM platform to the enterprise

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Sequencing Architecture Modernization: Risk Averse vs Risk Tolerant

Strategic Tech

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. Even a decade or more is nothing out of the ordinary for large organizations who have accumulated legacy and heritage systems over long periods of time. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? There are usually a number of factors which greatly complicate the situation.

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How to Avoid AWS Lambda Cold Starts?

Simform

Cold start has been one of the key issues related to AWS Lambda functions. When serverless ecosystem came into the picture, people believed that it reduced the burden of developers, However, with the cold start issues, developers have their work cut out. Here, we have provided the ways to avoid/prevent AWS Lambda cold start. The post How to Avoid AWS Lambda Cold Starts?

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Is There a Business Case for Utility Tech Investments?

The Agile Manager

Last year I wrote a piece on legacy modernization initiatives. Among the points I made was that legacy modernization is at best a break-even proposition: modernization is simply trading something old for its modern counterpart, getting the same capabilities in return. Of course, there are first order benefits to legacy modernization. Additional or more comprehensive capabilities that come standard with a new COTS product; lower labor intensity and less dependency on costly knowledge workers requ

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GotW #102 Solution: Assertions and “UB” (Difficulty: 7/10)

Sutter's Mill

This special Guru of the Week series focuses on contracts. Now that we have considered assertions, postconditions, and preconditions in GotWs #97-101, let’s pause and reflect: To what extent does a failed contract imply “UB”… either the Hidden Dragon of Undefined Behavior, or the Crouching Tiger of Unspecified Behavior? 1. Briefly, what is the difference among: (a) undefined behavior Undefined behavior is what happens when your program tries to do something whose meaning is not defined at all in

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision.

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An Ultimate Guide of Web Application Architecture

Simform

The post An Ultimate Guide of Web Application Architecture appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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New features: Chrome Beta and Canary support & LCP element highlighting

Speed Curve

Today's release includes a some great new features: Support for both Chrome beta and canary test agents LCP element highlighting and new key rendering visuals. For more information on these features, see our latest post.

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Test agent updates: Chrome 91, Lighthouse 7.5

Speed Curve

Updated test agents are being rolled out to all regions today. They include updates to several pieces of core software, including: Chrome has been updated from version 89 to 91. Lighthouse has been updated from version 7.3.0 to 7.5.0.

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