Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. This allows you to leverage external plugins and tools to better support your deployment and improve performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. What do you see as the biggest challenge for performance and reliability? Dynatrace news.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

This month, I'm going to start exploring the submitted solutions, roughly, going from the worse performing to the best performing ones. Why even bother with the bad performing ones? This article is dedicated to this poor performing approach. Despite the poor performance, working on the solution is an interesting exercise.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

However, below are some ideas or other mental health improvement strategies that are effective which you can explore. Physical Exercise. So, whenever you feel anxious or moody, just get into some exercises before getting back to work and you will most likely love the results. It reduces anxiety, depression, and negative moods.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. Recommended reading : “ The Unseen Performance Costs Of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries In React Apps )” by Aggelos Arvanitakis. Another advantage to CSS modules is performance.

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Website Design Best Practices Code 142

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

And asserted conditions only evaluated if they’re enabled, so any side effects won’t happen when they’re not enabled; they might sometimes perform local side effects, such as to do logging or allocate memory, but the program should never rely on them happening or not happening. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

A basic premise is that there are alternatives to traditional "lift and shift" strategies by retiring legacy assets in a piecemeal fashion. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

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Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

Many companies combine second-generation application performance management (APM) solutions to collect and aggregate data with machine-learning-based AIOps tools that add analysis and execution. These teams need to know how services and software are performing, whether new features or functions are required, and if applications are secure.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Management textbooks dating at least as far back as the 1980s included stories of employees performing tasks the reasons for which they didn't really understand. There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. This month, we look at our options for re-acquiring it.

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Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Otherwise, you’ll either get the implicitly generated move functions, or else requests to move will automatically just do a copy instead, since copy is always a valid implementation of move (it just doesn’t exercise the non- const option). Yes, in my view it does make it a buggy class that shouldn’t pass code review.

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C++ Testing Design Strategy 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. The new version of the application is deployed in the green environment and tested for functionality and performance. Both use the same database back-end and app configuration.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. Unless a client hires you to specifically improve the performance of one page, you’ll need a broad view of the whole site or application. All through no fault of the client or the project, but through huge flaws in my own approach.

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Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The scenario Service considerations In this exercise, we wanted to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL v12.16 The 1-2-3 Steps Per the title of this post, the next is the list of steps to perform the PITR, then pg_upgrade to v15.4, Start the new instance to perform the PITR with LSN Start the new PostgreSQL instance.

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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No, this was a change in strategy. as an (eventual) exercise of monopolistic power that held the web back for more than a decade? In early 2020, after months of background conversations and research, Mason Freed posted a new set of design alternatives , which included extensive performance research. But needs must.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance management.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Once you create your own code of ethics, you might notice an improvement not only in your team’s work and performance but also in the team’s culture as well. If there is strong disagreement between one or more principles that some feel should be combined while others feel should be separate, then run a dot-voting prioritization exercise.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . A telecom giant was able to change its outsourcing strategy and renegotiate better terms with its managed service partners. The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He had a strategy. It means developers were no longer doing the non-value-adding heavy lifting” added Shaun Norris, Field CIO from Pivotal, enabling the acceleration that enables DBS to be considered an elite performer. It was no longer about why my team wasn’t performing, but why isn’t the organization performing.

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Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. Very little can be more annoying and frustrating for users than poor performance, meaning long-running queries and high response times at the front end. This scan method can help get the best possible performance for the queries that fit its conditions.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

With only an hour or so of degraded performance in the end, it’s not the worst incident you can imagine, but it was clearly taken as very serious given the time of year. The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels.

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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . A telecom giant was able to change its outsourcing strategy and renegotiate better terms with its managed service partners. The False Developer Quality Equivalency . Subscribe now.

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Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Consider how controls could degrade over time, including change management, performance audits and how incident reviews could surface anomalies and problems with the system design.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Consider how controls could degrade over time, including change management, performance audits and how incident reviews could surface anomalies and problems with the system design.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. Portability. It is arguable that in the modern era whether these clauses continue to provide the benefit intended.

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos.

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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The nodes for level of the tree are generated by performing balanced bipartitions that minimize edge cuts of the nodes in level. With users statically assigned to buckets during this weekly partitioning exercise, it remains to assign buckets of users to datacenters, which is done in an online fashion via a Stable Segment Assignment algorithm.

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Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first. If applicable, can we test if a design without disabled buttons performs better? When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance written by Adrian Bece. She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. The Inclusive Safety Project. Eva on Twitter. Eva’s personal site. Weekly Update. Hi, Eva, how are you?

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Its strategies for flow control are either stop-and-wait (i.e., blocking), discarding data, or none—which can lead to resilience problems, poor performance, or worse: rapid unscheduled disassembly in production. map(s -> s + s): is a flow stage that is performing a transformation—concatenating Strings—and is of type Flow.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. Performance and concurrency aren’t a concern. Let’s refer to this as an Invariant Business Rule.

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Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

during a typical week at Netflix, MezzFS performs ~100 million mounts for dozens of different use cases and streams about ~25 petabytes of data. We use this to debug errors and performance issues in specific mounts. More on this below… Adaptive buffering ?—?More How much faster is this?

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2015

A few months ago, we took a look at the pathologies of matrixed organizations : no focus, amateur management, and people waging turf wars to secure power that they can exercise without consequence. encourage a tendency to self-congratulation immune to deficiencies in current performance. -- Ibid.

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