Recently someone at work asked for more space to accommodate a rapidly growing table. At the time it had 3.75 billion rows, presented on 143 million pages, and occupying ~1.14TB. Of course we can always throw more disk at a table, but I wanted to see if we could scale this more efficiently than the current linear trend. Sounds like a great job for compression, right? But I also wanted to try out some other solutions, including columnstore – which people are surprisingly reluctant to try. MORE

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When you are delivering a web-based or mobile-based software in the competitive market, you need to ensure your website functions smoothly on every type of environment as intended. We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. If your application is compatible enough, it will definitely help in obtaining a good business. In this article, we will see how we do cross browser testing in 2 ways: manual browser testing and automated browser testing. MORE

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). The video is on [youtube] and the demo starts at [0:50] (the sildes are on [slideshare]): I'm demonstrating a tool I developed to turn my laptop's wifi signal strength into audio. I first developed it as this [bpftrace] one-liner: bpftrace -e 'k:__iwl_dbg /str(arg4) == "Rssi %d, TSF %llun"/ { printf("strength: %dn", arg5); }'. Attaching 1 probe. MORE

Dynatrace news. AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. MORE

This article targets the beginners and gives an introduction of the clustered index in SQL Server. Introduction An index plays a crucial role in SQL Server query performance. Consider a book library with thousands of books. You want to search for a specific book that contains the keyword “adventure” in the title. The books in […]. Indexes Performance SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS MORE

Dynatrace news. AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. MORE

Today we’re heading to Nashville to meet our Senior Manager of Technical Account Management, Lori! She discusses how she works across multiple time zones, her love for working with customers on their integration journeys, and where to get the best lunch in Austin. How do you start your day before work? MORE

Many organizations that have implemented agile development practices are struggling to derive full value from them because of a variety of factors, including a slowness to jettison conventional approaches and a failure to adopt best practices. App Dev & Testing, Testing, Agile, Microservices, COBOL, Open Source, Application Programming Interface (API), Application Testing, Test Automation MORE

Tip: Avoid large pull requests. Find ways to break them up into smaller ones MORE

The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive is a free, open-source collaborations featuring input from over 80 contributors. It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available. Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. MORE

Tip: Break tasks you procrastinate into smaller, low-energy ones. It helps MORE