Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

We do our best to provide support for all popular hardware and OS platforms that are used by our customers for the hosting of their business services. The list is constantly being updated as new releases are tested and old releases are deprecated. Behind the scenes, environment tests are performed on an ongoing basis.

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Operating System Hardware Technology Technology 227

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

A Dynatrace Managed cluster may lack the necessary hardware to process all the additional incoming data. The cluster sizing doesn’t match requirements because a large number of hosts were added to monitoring after the initial sizing, and the cluster needs to be expanded. All this automatically and with the same hardware.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 150

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. Final Thoughts: Monitoring Performance from the Great Firewall of China.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. The Performance Engineering team specializes in optimizing resource utilization at Netflix. TV manufacturers released TVs ready for AV1 streaming.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

It also entails secure development practices, security monitoring and logging, compliance and governance, and incident response. Cloud application security practices enable organizations to follow secure coding practices, monitor and log activities for detection and response, comply with regulations, and develop incident response plans.

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 171

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 84

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a.

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Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 98

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Using Davis, Cloud Automation can trigger the right fix for an issue , validate the fix by running a synthetic test, update the service ticket, and notify stakeholders using communication channels—all in an automated way. In response, Dynatrace introduced Monaco (Monitoring-as-code). Register now!

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 167

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 161

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

and, just like other software or hardware products, DNA runs internal testing groups where employees can beta test new devices and give feedback so that any annoying usability issues are addressed before hitting the mass market. Hubi is one of those SmartTV boxes from DNA , one of Finland’s telecom providers.

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Mobile Media Hardware Network 185

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This measurement includes time spent testing until the service is fully functional again. This includes time your team spends investigating, repairing, and testing. MTTD is a primary key performance indicator for IT and DevOps teams. MTTF measures the reliability of a network and durability of its hardware.

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network 202

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Coverage is assessed with a walk-test (4-5km/h) over all road segments on the campus, monitoring the physical-layer information from both 5G and 4G at each location. Application performance.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. Additionally, Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2 includes expanded options for customizing backup and restore operations, improved monitoring and alerting capabilities, and support for PostgreSQL 15.

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Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 91

Testsigma

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has dabbled in software development, testing, and automation, and often shares his learnings in his blog. In this QnA, Rahul makes the point that a randomly failing test is always worth investigating and that assumptions are dangerous in testing. Q1: What are your most and least favorite things about test automation?

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Engineering Hardware Testing Software Engineering 96

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? On that day, they realized the importance of testing for potential load on the server. Yes, loading testing is mighty important! Load Testing Parameters.

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Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. What is real user monitoring (RUM)? RUM gathers data from real life users to analyze application performance.

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Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. Our procurement decisions were based on trace data that was pulled from a handful of fragmented monitoring solutions.

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Google Engineering Metrics Hardware 192

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 113

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. All DBaaS management, monitoring, and maintenance tools are included in both plans, along with 24/7 support. Where to host your cloud database? Expert Tip.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Like PageSpeed, Lighthouse also has a performance score. Recommended! PageSpeed 5.0 In PageSpeed 5.0,

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use? As most things in life, by chance. What is your business model?

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. The group has deep roots in High Performance Computing (that’s what Shahin, Steve, and I did at Sun).

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IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Front-End Error Tracking Older error monitoring tools were primarily focused on back-end errors.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67