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Why I am coding?

DZone

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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Massively improved supportability with the fully automated OneAgent support self-service

Dynatrace

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.

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Boost SQL Server Performance with Wait Statistics

SQL Shack

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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SAFe testing: 3 key challenges your QA team needs to know

TechBeacon Testing

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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Performance Optimization Techniques

DZone

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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Leveraging ServiceNow & Dynatrace to automate Incident Management and Problem Remediation

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace’s integration with ServiceNow enables organizations to achieve rapid resolution of common problems through auto-remediation. The video below demonstrates how Dynatrace ’s AI, Davis , enables auto-remediation by identifying a problem’s precise root cause. With this critical informat i on , Davis creates a ServiceNow ticket and kicks off a remediation workflow.

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My CppCon 2020 talk video is online

Sutter's Mill

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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Analyze Mule4 API Performance — Using JMeter and Google Apps Script

DZone

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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Further enhance security by easily automating your API token protection

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Especially in enterprise-wide environments, it’s challenging to centrally ensure that credentials are never exposed to unauthorized people. Credentials may, for example, be unintentionally exposed in log files, shared documents, and internal (or even external) source code repositories. Last year GitHub reported that they have identified one billion potential tokens committed to GitHub repositories in the first year of running their secret scanning service.

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Core Web Vital Tooling

CSS - Tricks

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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The Flow Institute: The First Online Community for Value Stream Management (VSM)

Tasktop

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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Quality Sense Podcast: Fernanda Sesto — Advice for Getting Started in Software Testing

DZone

Quality Sense is back for season two! Did you miss us? In this episode, Federico invited Fernanda Sesto , a socially-minded Latina entrepreneur, current University of Rochester student, and a former Abstracta team member, to share a bit of what it was like for her to start working in testing at the ripe old age of 18!

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Dynatrace wins three company culture accolades in 2020 Comparably Awards

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Helping teams to innovate and transforming how they work isn’t just our mission for customers and partners. At Dynatrace, we are strengthening these pillars in our own workplace. We’re proud to announce that we’ve again been recognized for these efforts by the 2020 Comparably Awards as a Company with the Happiest Employee s, Best Company for Work-Life-Balance , and Best Company for Compensation.

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Test Automation – Driving DevOps to Success

Kovair

In earlier days, development(Dev) and operations(Ops) activities used to function in silos. But in the case of DevOps, it is not so.

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Cumulative Layout Shift: What it measures, when it works (and doesn't), and how to use it

Speed Curve

Back in May, we shared that SpeedCurve supports Google's Core Web Vitals in both our synthetic monitoring and LUX real user monitoring tools. Two of the Web Vitals – Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID) – were actually available in SpeedCurve for quite a while prior to the announcement. The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions.

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How Will the Hospitality Industry in Dallas Reshape Itself After the Pandemic?

Simform

The pandemic badly hits the hospitality industry in the city of Dallas. But technology can help it get back on its feet once again. How will the hospitality industry reshape itself with the help of technology? Let’s explore: The post How Will the Hospitality Industry in Dallas Reshape Itself After the Pandemic? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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More on content-visibility

CSS - Tricks

Back in August 2020, when the content-visiblity property in CSS trickled its way into Chrome browsers, Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin wrote about it and we covered it. The weirdest part is that to get the performance value out of it, you pair it with contain-intrinsic-size on these big chunks of the page where you insert some arbitrary guess at a height.

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Block Ads at a Network Level with Pi-Hole and an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter

The Polyglot Developer

Advertisements are incredibly annoying, and I’m saying this as someone who relies on them for income on The Polyglot Developer. Even with ad providers such as Google saying that they’re working to provide a better experience, things seem to be getting worse. You could use tools like Adblock Plus in the browser, but what about mobile devices?

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Explore secrets of the SQL Server tempdb database

SQL Shack

In this article, we will uncover some secrets about the SQL Server tempdb database. Tempdb is a system database and it is used for various internal and user operations. Besides this, the tempdb has many unique characteristics, unlike the other databases. When we take into account all of these features of the tempdb, there is […].

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How Cloud-based Communication Improves Healthcare Industry?

Simform

Jane’s 5-year old daughter has a fever. Using a mobile app, she schedules an appointment with a pediatrician within a few minutes. Mary suffers from arthritis and requires prescribed medication every month. Her physician submits an e-prescription to the pharmacy, and the medication is home-delivered to Mary. Healthcare is changing! The post How Cloud-based Communication Improves Healthcare Industry?

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How IT Can Get Its Dream Makeover with Value Stream Management

Tasktop

Here at Tasktop, we’ve had plenty of interesting conversations with enterprises about whether they should delay adoption of a value stream management (VSM) platform until they’ve had a chance to “clean up their mess”. . Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained budgets — that a VSM tool will simply expose what is already known: “Our processes, workflows and tools are a mess.

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Dareboost Joins Contentsquare

Dareboost

Damien Jubeau – CEO Hello everyone, I have some very exciting news to share with you! Today, I can officially let you know that Dareboost will be joining forces with Digital Experience Analytics Platform Contentsquare. We created Dareboost seven years ago with Yoann, Rémi and Anthony with the ambition of contributing to a faster web.

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How to build a high-performance application on Tarantool from scratch

Percona Community

I came to Mail.ru Group in 2013, and I required a queue for one task. First of all, I decided to check what the company had already got. They told me they had this Tarantool product, and I checked how it worked and decided that adding a queue broker to it could work perfectly well. I contacted Kostja Osipov, the senior expert in Tarantool, and the next day he gave me a 250-string script that was capable of managing almost everything I needed.

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform By David Henry & Mel Yahya Over the last few years Netflix has been developing a mobile app called Prodicle to innovate in the physical production of TV shows and movies. The world of physical production is fast-paced, and needs vary significantly between the country, region, and even from one production to the next.

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It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)!

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. As PSM will soon be discontinued, we’re pleased to announce the release of a starter-kit for Windchill! This will allow you to move to the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform with ease and get automatic, intelligent observability at scale.

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Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge – part 1

The Morning Paper

Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge , Potharaju et al., PVLDB’20. On the surface this is a paper about fast data ingestion from high-volume streams, with indexing to support efficient querying. As a production system within Microsoft capturing around a quadrillion events and indexing 16 trillion search keys per day it would be interesting in its own right, but there’s a lot more to it than that.

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Zero downtime schema change with Liquibase & Percona

Percona Community

I am always surprised to learn something new whenever I talk to a member of the open-source community. No matter how much I think I have heard of every use case there is for Liquibase (and database change management in general), I always hear something that makes this space still feel new. There’s always something left to discover. Today, that new something is the problem of how to perform large batches of changes with SQL ALTER TABLE statements.

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Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores

The Netflix TechBlog

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. Usually Data scientists and engineers write Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) jobs and pipelines using big data compute technologies, like Spark or Presto , to process this data and perio

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Role Of A Software Tester In Code Reviews

Testsigma

If you are working in an agile environment, you may have come across the term ‘code review’. It is a strategic operation where you break the source code into snippets in order to audit the code before it is moved to the testing phase. What Is Code Review? Short definition : Code review may be defined as two-way communication between a coder and a reviewer.

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Ingesting JMeter, temperature and humidity metrics: A Dynatrace innovation day report

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. In the recent blog post , Wolfgang Beer, Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace, goes into detail about how that API is also used to ingest data from StatsD , Telegraf , or Prometheus , how these metrics can be assigned to the Smartscape topology, and how Davis can alert on anomalies of these custom metrics and give y

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The Power of Cosmos DB Comes to NServiceBus

Particular Software

With the recent preview release of NServiceBus.Persistence.CosmosDB , you can now use Azure Cosmos DB with NServiceBus! Backed by Cosmos DB, a fully managed, globally distributed, elastically scaled, pay-as-you-go service, your NServiceBus-based systems can benefit from guaranteed single-digit-millisecond latency with 99.999% availability. If you are already using Cosmos DB to store your business data, you no longer need to use a different storage technology to store your NServiceBus saga data.

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A Day in the Life of a Content Analytics Engineer

The Netflix TechBlog

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and what the role entails by Rocio Ruelas Back when we were all working in offices, my favorite days were Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Those were the days with the best hot breakfast, and I’ve always been a sucker for free food. I started the day by arriving at the LA office right before 8am and finding a parking spot close to the entrance.

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