IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Every software tester would have come across a situation of a missed bug. Do not get involved in the blame game ; it won’t help anyone. Understand that no software is bug-free. Ask yourself, could this issue be found in earlier phases of the software development. Let’s say blue is serving the traffic currently.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. With titles like Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Hay Day, Supercell has 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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Testlodge

APRIL 8, 2020

Software testing teams use numerous types of manual testing. In a world of high-tech automation and robots, manual testing remains valuable and relevant to software teams. Smoke testing is a high-level type of manual testing used to assess whether the software conforms to its primary objectives without critical defects.

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Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 7, 2023

These unassuming pieces of software have the potential to reshape the way you engage with your customers, market your products or services, and, ultimately, grow your business. A phone call tracking app is a software tool that enables businesses to monitor and analyze incoming calls. What Is a Phone Call Tracking App?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Everyone knows that ChatGPT had one of the most successful launches of any software project, passing a million users in its first five days. That makes sense; although it’s still early, Langchain looks like it will be the cornerstone of LLM-based software development. What can we make of this?

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

For example, traffic routing apps such as Waze can end up worsening congestion for all. It’s a bit like playing a game of adversarial machine learning, but out in the real world. ’ Kulynych, Overdorf, et al., Economists use the term negative externalities to describe the negative effects of a system.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

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Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Since the Xbox 360 CPU ran at 3.2

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

The latest consolidated financials (PDF) are from 2020 and show that, without marketing expenses, Mozilla spends between $380 and $430 million US per year on software development. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. A reasonable floor comes from Mozilla's annual reports.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks. either way, itâ??s

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. They need help tracking down expensive and insidious traffic across the language boundaries (copying and serialization). So what can we as a research community do to tackle this challenge? About the Author: Emery D.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. And certainly no need to pay for it.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. However, in almost all cases this “smartness” runs in software in the cloud not the object or the device itself. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

These may include operating systems and other software on the machine. PaaS not only provides the infrastructure (as in IaaS) but also the framework to build, test and deploy complete software on the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS). Whatever the user’s needs are, they can be allotted to them such as 8GB Ram etc.

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Particular Software

MARCH 11, 2019

The point is: our businesses can adapt to out-of-order delivery of information so our software should be able to as well. But maybe I get delayed in traffic or wait until the end of that Game of Thrones episode I'm watching for the tenth time. Or offer them a coupon for a different product.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. Geo-location testing is an essential module in the software development lifecycle.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing! Front-end errors include UI glitches, slow performance and broken interfaces.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

While I was writing chapter 3 of my book, Activist Investing in Strategic Software , I spent time researching the rise of centralized procurement departments in the 1990s. With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too. Tech labor was wage work. Certifications became the path to higher salaries.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It is much worse to be a software developer now. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. . $2

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In much the same way as air traffic controllers are taught how to land planes in the event the software fails on them at a critical moment, former knowledge workers can help re-build our knowledge from the ground up. Tool 3: Buy Before you Try If you're on your way to becoming a zombie company , why not eat someone else's brain?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Similarly, if you’re focusing on constant interaction (be it video chat, collaborative editing, or gaming), then your worst-case scenarios should improve more than if you have a news website. You would, of course, not want to use this to send web page resources, but it might be handy for things such as gaming and live video streaming.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

No other aspect of modern software is as poorly managed in otherwise functional engineering organisations. Some begin an unproductive blame game, accusing tech leads of incompetence, or worse. Even junior PM s internalise the notion that product quality is at risk if tests are not built, automated, and tracked. Management Attributes #.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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