Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

What could be the best choice to cut down the costs and gain speed to move the pipeline faster than test automation? From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number. Test automation in conventional software is straightforward.

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? To answer all these questions we need exhaustive mobile testing in place.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Refer to innodb_redo_log_capacity below.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. However, the process of log analysis can become complicated without the proper tools.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. Supported Operating Systems. Compare Ease of Use. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This AI-driven control plane further abstracts away the complexity of underlying webhook-based integrations, enabling IT to assemble end-to-end processes that manage related interdependencies regardless of the underlying technology. Hence there are far fewer chances for false positives.

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 172

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is a combination of policies, processes, and controls that aim to reduce the risk of exposing cloud-based applications to compromise or failure from external or internal threats. Unfortunately, traditional security testing and software composition analysis requires significant time to return results.

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 177

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Cloud testing helps an organization gain competitiveness by reducing the cost of testing.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

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

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The short version is that calls to timeBeginPeriod from one process now affect other processes less than they used to, but there is still an effect. First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts. Let’s imagine that Process A is sitting in a loop calling Sleep(1).

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Facebook’s mobile device testing lab at the Prineville Data Centre is equipped with Android and iOS devices that test Facebook applications and Instagram. Thousands of mobile devices are racked that are used for testing apps that would soon launch into the real world. The Need For Mobile Testing Lab. Automated Testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. …software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

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Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

During the entire SDLC phase, there are various kinds of testing performed at different stages. Each stage of testing has different objectives to fulfil. The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. ” With the advent of new technologies and new software being released every day, software testing is gaining more strength and accolades.

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Software Software Testing Scalability 69

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Traditionally it has been the responsibility of the operating system’s task scheduler to mitigate this performance isolation problem. Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

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Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

With private synthetic browser monitors, we bring the testing capabilities available in public locations right into your own environment. It took us no time and has already payed off, detecting issues during the weekend when nobody in our offices was using the tested apps. REST API testing for mobile app monitoring.

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Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 156

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

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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? LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning. Or has it become white noise?

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Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2020

Fulfilling this need, automation testing within organizations increased. Various free open source and paid automation testing tools were introduced. Selenium was the first open-source automation tool introduced and organizations moved towards this tool for their test automation needs. Introduction to Selenium.

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Testing Tools Testing Open Source Java 60

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks). for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces).

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Instead, readers should refer to the HammerDB documentation. 4.22 %usr 38.40

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. Cloud computing solutions work as a catalyst in this process due to the easily available high processing power of the cloud, resulting in faster deployments. Centralizes the Processes.

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DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB development. Derived Workloads.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

.” Basic understanding In order to understand segmentation fault, it is necessary to understand memory management methods for processes. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues.

Programming 86

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 86

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. This is not true.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 103

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One school of thought is that the testing parameters were flawed: the sweeter taste of New Coke didn't pair as well with food as classic Coke, nor was a full can of the sweeter product as satisfying as one sip. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2. New Coke appeared to be The Best Soft Drink Ever.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

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. This process should not be confused with synthetic monitoring which gathers data through synthetic transactions such as pinging a service.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

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