DZone
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
We’ve seen many of the technological advances described in the Star Trek milieu become reality over the last 50 years, from personal communication devices and instant translators to GMOs, medical robots, 3D printing and weapons that stun. But, ah yes, the matter transporter. By far, the invention that captivates us most.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Dynatrace news. Across both his day one and day two mainstage presentations, Steve Tack, SVP of Product Management, described some of the investments we’re making to continue to differentiate the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. Echoing John Van Siclen’s sentiments from his Perform 2020 keynote, Steve cited Dynatrace customers as the inspiration and driving force for these innovations.
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High Scalability
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Visualize the huge scale of Deep Time by identifying key reference points along the way. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon Stuff won't happen. I also wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for everyone needing to understand the cloud (who doesn't?). On Amazon it has 93 mostly 5 star reviews (152 on Goodreads).
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Essential Suite?—?Artwork Producer Assistant By: Hamid Shahid & Syed Haq Introduction Netflix continues to invest in content for a global audience with a diverse range of unique tastes and interests. Correspondingly, the member experience must also evolve to connect this global audience to the content that most appeals to each of them. Images that represent titles on Netflix (what we at Netflix call “ artwork” ) have proven to be one of the most effective ways to help our members discover th
DZone
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Quality Assurance (QA) is at the point of inflection and it is an exciting time to be in the field of QA as advanced digital technologies are influencing QA practices. According to a press release by Gartner , The encouraging part is that IT and automation will play a major role in the transformation as the IT industry will spend close to $3.87 trillion in 2020, up from $3.76 trillion in 2019.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Dynatrace news. Modern microservices infrastructure commonly contain thousands of individual business-critical services and related dependencies. Managing highly dynamic service and application infrastructures with a CMDB database can be cumbersome and error prone. Inaccurate configuration item data can delay incident resolution and degrade quality change.
Tim Kadlec
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The other day I was auditing a site and ran into a pattern that I’ve seen with a few different clients now. The pattern itself is no longer recommended, but it’s a helpful illustration of why it’s important to be careful about how you use preload as well as a useful, real-world demonstration of how the order of your document can have a significant impact on performance (something Harry Roberts has done an outstanding job of detailing ).
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DZone
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Dynimize, a dynamic binary optimizer, has been shown to improve MySQL performance in CPU intensive workloads. This post explores how Dynimize can be used to instantly reduce MySQL CPU usage without altering a single line of your application code or my.cnf. You notice that the Linux top command shows that MySQL is consuming a lot of CPU resources, and you're worried that you're not leaving this server with enough breathing room.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Dynatrace news. IT operations teams need instant answers to drive better business outcomes. If they are spending time occupied with manual, error-prone tasks, this impedes productivity and value to the business. With Dynatrace & ServiceNow Orchestration, IT can automate manual tasks and improve operational IT efficiency, increase enterprise agility, and allocate more time and expertise to providing strategic value to the enterprise.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Who's Hiring? Are you looking to improve how you hire technical talent ? Essilen Research 's free video series can help. Fix common issues in screening, interviewing, closing and on-boarding. Learn how world-class tech companies crush the hiring game! Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relatio
SQL Performance
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
This article is the third installment in a series on NULL complexities. In Part 1 I covered the meaning of the NULL marker and how it behaves in comparisons. In Part 2 I described the NULL treatment inconsistencies in different language elements. This month I describe powerful standard NULL handling features that have yet to make it to T-SQL, and the workarounds that people currently use.
DZone
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
This is the second article that describes how to test asynchronous operations with the Byteman framework in an application using the Spring framework. The article discuss how to implement the Spock framework, while the first, "Testing Asynchronous Operations in Spring With JUnit and Byteman" , focuses on implementing tests with JUnit4. It's not necessary to read the previous article because all of the essentials are going to be repeated.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Dynatrace news. Dynatrace helps you monitor hyper-complex environments where tribal knowledge about entities and their relationships isn’t sufficient. To achieve this, Dynatrace provides important components such as OneAgent and ActiveGate. Although we strive for full automation during rollout and maintenance, customers with complex environments often request precise configurations that can work at scale.
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Let’s encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web , Aas et al., CCS’19. This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined.
CSS - Tricks
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
There is a growing number of things that we have to do to help the browser achieve for peak performance. Responsive image syntax has several. For example, needing to tell the browser how large the image will be in our layout with the sizes attribute and how big the images are with w descriptors. Regular images have always had width and height presentational attributes, which have always been somewhat useful and are now really useful.
DZone
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Many companies have moved from monoliths to microservices for better scalability and faster development cycles, and so have we at Kiwi.com. We still have monolithic applications, however, they are melting away over time and a swarm of shiny microservices is gradually replacing them. These new microservices use Open API schemas to declare their contracts and be explicit in their expectations.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Dynatrace news. Deployment of OneAgent is really easy. You just run the installer—no parameter configurations required—and OneAgent takes care of the rest. OneAgent knows where to connect for further runtime configuration and where to send data because the installer itself is pre-configured to connect to the exact tenant and server that it’s downloaded from.
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Watching you watch: the tracking ecosystem of over-the-top TV streaming devices , Moghaddam et al., CCS’19. The results from this paper are all too predictable: channels on Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming devices are insecure and riddled with privacy leaks. The authors quantify the scale of the problem, and note that users have even less viable defence mechanisms than they do on web and mobile platforms.
TechBeacon Testing
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Your testing of software that includes artificial intelligence (AI) components will be more sophisticated and robust if you just think in human terms.
The Polyglot Developer
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
If you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you might remember a few tutorials I wrote around the Cropper.js library for JavaScript applications. In these tutorials I demonstrated how to manipulate images in Angular as well as Vue.js web applications. While the tutorials were more or less the same, the framework was different, which resulted in some differences in the code used.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Dynatrace news. Businesses know that any service disruption can have detrimental business impact. With the increasing complexity of managing hybrid, multi-cloud, microservice environments, IT operations struggle with the lack of visibility into their environments and the ability to pinpoint root causes to remediate large scale incidences quickly. .
The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. IEEE, 1980. Today’s paper came highly recommended by Kevlin Henney and Nat Pryce in a Twitter thread last week, thank you both! The footnotes show that the manuscript for this paper was submitted almost exactly 40 years ago – on the 27th February 1980. The problems it describes though (and that the community had already been wrestling with for a couple of decades) seem as fresh and relevant as ever.
Simform
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
User experience is the number one priority for every business in the market today. As a developer, even the brief you get on your project talks about the simplicity of the user interface it is supposed to feature. The post Best Frontend Frameworks of 2020! appeared first on Insights on Latest Software Technologies - Simform Blog.
The Polyglot Developer
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
In most client facing applications there’s a need to consume data from remote web services, also referred to as APIs. This is because there is a separation of backend and frontend logic in modern applications, not specific to the web. With JavaScript, there are quite a few options when it comes to making HTTP requests, some of which I explored in my previous tutorial titled, Execute HTTP Requests in JavaScript Applications.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. Dynatrace Managed support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS 8.1. RHEL 8 brings a number of enhancements to the RHEL family: a refreshed system kernel, improved system performance and security, application streams, and numerous other updates, all optimized for hybrid cloud environments. We’re happy to announce that we’ve tested Dynatrace Managed version 1.186 with RHEL 8.1 and CentOS 8.1 and are now in the process of wrapping up the cert
KeyCDN
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Push Zones are now seamlessly supporting Image Processing ! This allows global image hosting without having the images hosted on another origin server. The complete feature set of Image Processing is now also available for Push Zones. It only takes a few steps to upload and transform images. Our edge servers are directly linked to our global storage cluster, which ensures faster loading times of images.
Testlodge
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Once the development of a new product or system is complete, we have to execute alpha and beta testing. Alpha testing is generally performed in-house or within the organization and utilizes the expertise of developers, designers, testers, and other connected personnel, but what is beta testing? Beta testing involves a limited number of end-users, who use the product in a real-life environment, and once beta testing has been successfully executed, the results once implemented, can ensure the prod
Tasktop
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The allure of the project to product movement is that it offers real hope to global enterprises that they can master software delivery at scale and compete with the tech giants. According to Gartner, 55% of organizations surveyed are looking to move to a product-centric mentality. At the same time, there’s no escaping the fact that for many IT and business leaders another transformation sounds daunting….
SQL Shack
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
This is in continuation of the previous articles How to monitor internal data structures of SQL Server In-Memory database objects and SQL Server In-Memory database internal memory structure monitoring. This article describes the concepts of In-memory-optimization and design principles. In this article, we will cover: Details of the In-Memory OLTP evolution Provides samples to demonstrate […].
TechBeacon Testing
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Despite the proven benefits of service virtualization for software development, the technology often gets underutilized. That's because organizations either haven't heard of it or misunderstand what it is and how to use it.
MachMetrics
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. Choosing the perfect font family, making sure we’re using the right font weight. We want our font to be an extension of the design, as well as make our content pleasing to the eye, drawing our readers interest. But what about our web font’s performance?
Sutter's Mill
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
The ISO C++ committee is here in Prague this week to finish C++20, and the meeting hosts Avast Software also arranged a great C++ meetup last night where over 300 people came out to see Bjarne Stroustrup, Tony Van Eerd, and me give talks. The videos are already online, see below — they’re really high quality, and it was a great event. Thank you again to everyone who came out to see us!
Testsigma
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
According to Wikipedia , “Functional testing is a quality assurance process and a type of black-box testing that bases its test cases on the specifications of the software component under test. Functions are tested by feeding them input and examining the output, and the internal program structure is rarely considered.”. Functional testing is a Black Box technique in which the output is validated against the input provided to the application.
Tasktop
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
This week, we had the opportunity to speak with one of our Director of Sales, Laura Horner! She discussed the importance of staying engaged with customers, the very first time Dr. Mik Kersten shared the Flow Framework with her, and her top three accomplishments at Tasktop. . How do you start your day before work? . We have a hectic morning in our home!
SQL Performance
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update #2 is now available, with 134 fixes and improvements. Build # is 15.0.4013.40. The post SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update #2 appeared first on SQLPerformance.com.
SQL Server According to Bob
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
SQL Server BDC Hints and Tips: VDI Seeding for High Availability A high availability SQL Server BDC uses the Virtual Device Interface (VDI) to seed databases to secondary replicas. ( [link] ) VDI History - [link] VDI was introduced to SQL Server allowing custom providers to backup/restore data to/from SQL Server like a file interface would.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Considerations for when—and when not—to apply microservices in your organization. Despite the drive in some quarters to make microservice architectures the default approach for software, I feel that due to their numerous challenges, adopting them still requires careful thought. You need to assess your problem space, your skills, technology landscape, and understand what you are trying to achieve before deciding if microservices are right for you.
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