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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. These tests open the retail home pages from various locations across America on a consistent basis. In the past, I tried to understand where in the page-loading process was the majority of time spent.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. SLOs improve software quality. SLOs promote automation. Availability.

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9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Change failure rate.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub.

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What We Learned Auditing Sophisticated AI for Bias

O'Reilly

The internal control questionnaire in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s MRM Handbook (starting pg. Using a public, agreed-upon standard for audits is one way to enhance fairness and transparency in the audit process. Its operators have less experience and associated governance processes are less fleshed out.

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What to gift your software tester friend if you are the secret Santa?

Testsigma

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. Just Enough Software Test Automation by Daniel J.

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50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills

Smashing Magazine

Copywriting is about human psychology, consumer behaviour and applying tried and tested methodologies. Not strictly aimed at copywriters but still a good overview of the steps in the writing process. A classic from copywriter John Caples, the man behind spilt testing. Great grammar does not equal great copywriting.

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