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Tackling cloud modernization

Dynatrace

As the process of cloud modernization becomes ever more complex, there is an even greater need to embrace the emerging role of cloud architect to accelerate transformation. One thing that’s imperative is modernization and digitization cannot be achieved alone.

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Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

Systems 145
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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023

Alex Russell

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements.

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Adrian’s recipe for gluten and dairy free boozy fruit cake

Adrian Cockcroft

This is a synthesis of several recipes that I’ve modified over the years. I usually make a cake for the holidays. Growing up my mother made what she called a Dundee Cake, a round fruit cake with almonds on top. She would make it a month before, and soak brandy into it.

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Dynatrace tops cloud-native observability solutions quadrant for the third year in a row

Dynatrace

In the International Services Group (ISG) 2022 Provider Lens for Cloud-native Services and Solutions report, Dynatrace has attained the top overall position for the cloud-native observability quadrant. Additionally, Dynatrace is recognized as a leader in cloud-native security for both the U.S.

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Diffing PostgreSQL Schema Changes

Percona

One of the routine operations when administering PostgreSQL is periodic updates to the database system’s architecture.

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Hunting for bandwidth on a consumer NVMe drive

n0derunner

The Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB claims a sequential read bandwidth of 3400 MB/s this is a story of trying to achieve that number. Starting point We start with a Haswell based PCIE Gen2 machine.

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Performance Testing of a Socket.IO Application

Abstracta

If you’re going through the experience of trying to do a performance test with systems that use the Socket.IO library, one of the best ways is to use Locust, Taurus, and Blazemeter. To learn more about this topic, read this article by December Labs, one. The post Performance Testing of a Socket.IO

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How do You Fit Observability within Testing & QA? We have Got Answers!

Simform

Testing in production helps you catch the bugs before the final version goes into production. Observability facilitates testing in production by providing full-stack visibility inside production and infrastructure.

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PostgreSQL Role Inheritance at a Glance

Percona

PostgreSQL manages database access permissions using the concept of roles. A role can be either a database user or a group of database users, depending on how the role is set up.

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Must-Have Skills For A Top Automation Tester

Tech News Gather

A career as an Automation Tester has a lot of benefits, especially since it is a growing career field and is required by almost every firm. Automation testing helps a company reach a wide variety of audiences, doing it efficiently without using much time or money as it replaces manual testing though not entirely. It also helps do the testing of large-scale projects more effectively. So what exactly does an automation tester do?

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Every year feels like a big year, and 2022 has been no exception. Not only did we celebrate our ninth birthday (!!!) we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.).

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Rebuild Patroni Replica Using pgBackRest

Percona

Patroni is one of the most used high availability (HA) solutions with the PostgreSQL database. It uses a Distributed Configuration Store (DCS) to keep the configuration in a centralized location available for all nodes making it an easy-to-use and reliable HA solution available in the market today.

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A MyRocks Use Case

Percona

I wrote this post on MyRocks because I believe it is the most interesting new MySQL storage engine to have appeared over the last few years. Although MyRocks is very efficient for writes, I chose a more generic workload that will provide a different MyRocks use case.

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PMM V2.33: Offline Metric Collection, Guided Alerting Tour, Security Fixes, and More!

Percona

We are excited to announce the latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – V2.33. This release includes several new features and improvements that make PMM even more effective and user-friendly. Some of the key highlights of PMM V2.33

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