High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

All Things Distributed

APRIL 3, 2019

Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Indonesia! The new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be composed of three Availability Zones, and will give AWS customers and partners the ability to run workloads and store data in Indonesia. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be our ninth Region in Asia Pacific. It joins existing Regions in Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as an upcoming Region in Hong Kong SAR.

AWS 150

AWS Infrastructure Availability 150

QAMentor

APRIL 1, 2019

In today’s broad digital landscape, web app penetration testing is considered as one of the most important parts of a company’s vulnerability management program. Conducting a web app penetration test not only requires expertise, but it also needs a significant amount of time. In this age of steadily increasing cyber attacks, it has become essential … The post How to Perform First Web App Penetration Testing?

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Testing Performance Programming Software 75

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 2, 2019

Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site: Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less of a problem is a huge win. In terms of the device, if you look outside the tech bubble, a lot of users can't or don't want to pay for a high-end phone.

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Website Network Performance 74

Speed Curve

APRIL 2, 2019

As organizations work to improve performance for users around the world on slower networks and devices, the focus on JavaScript continues to grow. LUX's new JavaScript dashboards help to identify the problems and solutions for creating a fast, joyous user experience. LUX is SpeedCurve's real user monitoring product. We launched it two years ago with four dashboards: Live, Users, Performance, and Design.

Traffic 55

Traffic Metrics Network Mobile 55

SQL Performance

APRIL 5, 2019

The IGNORE_DUP_KEY option for unique indexes specifies how SQL Server responds to an attempt to INSERT duplicate values: It only applies to tables (not views) and only to inserts. Any insert portion of a MERGE statement ignores any IGNORE_DUP_KEY index setting. When IGNORE_DUP_KEY is OFF , the first duplicate encountered results in an error , and none of the new rows are inserted.

Storage 53

Storage Servers Engineering Testing 53

QAMentor

APRIL 4, 2019

To develop a top-notch product, your development teams need to perform continuous performance testing because with it, they can quickly identify key functional bugs as well as those load-handling and performance bugs that are difficult to detect. If you’re ready to implement continuous performance testing, knowing these 11 best practices would help: Focus on performance … The post 11 Best Practices for Continuous Performance Testing appeared first on QA Mentor Blog.

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Best Practices Performance Testing Testing Performance 58

SQL Shack

APRIL 1, 2019

In the previous articles of this series on the SQL Server Transaction Log, we discussed the importance of the SQL Server Transaction Log and the role that it plays in maintaining the database consistency, by ensuring that the committing transactions data will be preserved and the failed transaction will be rolled back. It also helps […].

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Servers Monitoring Database 51

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 1, 2019

I mentioned a few months ago that I was going to periodically go back to the basics when it comes to computer programming and application development. Building a Hello World Example C++ Application was a first example of what I was talking about. However, in this previous example, much of our work was done in a basic text editor, then compiled and ran with a Command Prompt or Terminal.

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C++ Code Development Programming 49

The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system Yun & Zhong et al., NDSS’19. Suppose you did go to the extreme length of establishing an unconditional root of trust for your system, even then, unless every subsequent piece of code you load is also fully trusted (e.g., formally verified) then you’re open to post-boot attacks.

Operating System 43

Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

TechBeacon Testing

APRIL 2, 2019

Moving up the ladder in testing often means more money, more fun, and having more impact. Some folks sit around and just hope it will happen. Some ask for promotions before they are ready. Some wait a decade for promotion through simple attrition.

Testing 48

Testing 48

Allen Holub

MARCH 31, 2019

Somehow, some people have gotten the idea that design is somehow inimical to Agile. That’s not true. It’s always helpful to think about things before you do them. The question is not whether or not you should think in advance, it’s how far in advance should the thinking occur. Hours? Days? Months? The problem with… The post The Problem With Design appeared first on Allen Holub.

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Design 43

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 1, 2019

You need to make sure to order the events by event_sequence when doing analytics on the XEvent data. It has been proposed to me that you can use the causality tracking sequence as a sort target, which may work as long as you understand how the activity ids are associated with the parent and the sequence is produced. [link]. [link]. Summary. Values are generated when the event sequence is submitted to the target.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Analytics Servers Engineering 40

The Morning Paper

MARCH 31, 2019

The crux of voice (in)security: a brain study of speaker legitimacy detection Neupane et al., NDSS’19. The key results of this paper are easy to understand, but the implications are going to take us a long time to unravel. Speech morphing (voice morphing) is the process of translating a speaker’s voice to sound like a given impersonation target.

Social Media 40

Social Media Technology Technology Media 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

These drastic actions provide reassurance to creditors that big companies will do just about anything to keep their investment grade ratings. FT Lex, US credit ratings: attack of the killer Bs As a company grows, and the rate of its growth slows, it changes its capital structure. Early-stage capital is speculating on future cash flows, while later-stage capital has expectations of future cash flows.

Strategy 40

Strategy FinTech Efficiency Technology 40

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

High Scalability

APRIL 5, 2019

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: SHUTDOWN ABORT the last Oracle database running Amazon Fulfillment! pic.twitter.com/DorqTua2Lt. — John Darrow (@jdarrow) March 29, 2019. How unhappy do you have to be as a customer to take so much joy in end-of-lifing a product? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud.

Internet 26

Internet Internet Scalability Network 26

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Establishing software root of trust unconditionally Gligor & Woo, NDSS’19. The authors won a best paper award for this work at NDSS this year. The main result is quite something, but as you might expect the lines of argument are detailed and not always easy to follow (and certainly not critically!) for non-experts like me. I’ll use today’s write-up to convey the big ideas as I understand them.

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40