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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

Testing

Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache

What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. DevSecOps teams can tap observability to get more insights into the apps they develop, and automate testing and CI/CD processes so they can release better quality code faster.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure

Test Plan and Test Strategy: Best Practices That Will Make Your Product Development a Success

DZone

MAY 4, 2022

That's where a test plan and test strategy can help. If you don't measure quality, you don't have any control over the testing process or any ability to anticipate the results. However, the value and purpose of the quality assurance process are not transparent without documentation.

Strategy

Strategy Best Practices Testing Development

Performance Metrics of Your QA Team

DZone

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

QA performance metrics are essential for eliminating inefficient strategies and improving internal processes. Your QA performance metrics process should identify if goals are being met as and analyze resources to make sure they are producing to their maximum capacity.

Metrics

Metrics Performance Strategy Engineering

The Role of A/B Testing in Website Development and Optimization

DZone

JUNE 7, 2023

A/B testing involves comparing two or more variations of a webpage or user experience to determine which one performs better in achieving predefined goals. A/B testing plays a significant role in improving conversion rates, user engagement, and overall website performance. Websites are not static entities; they evolve over time.

Website

Website Development Testing Strategy

Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Need to catch up?

Testing

Testing Latency Metrics Innovation

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

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. Dynatrace news. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

Strategy

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

Multi-CDN Strategy: Benefits and Best Practices

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Network RedundancyThe primary and most important advantage of a Multi-CDN strategy is redundancy, and, consequently, improved reliability. M-CDN enables enacting a failover strategy with additional CDN providers that have not been impacted. Then, rigorous testing is necessary to ensure it functions properly.

Best Practices

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization

Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

Metrics

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

And according to recent data from Enterprise Strategy Group, 59% of survey respondents indicated spending on public cloud applications would increase in 2023. The company made these changes to support its ONETractor strategy, which seeks to deliver personalized, convenient shopping experiences anytime, anywhere.

Cloud

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail

Automated web testing – some strategies to achieve ROI?

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Automated web testing is not a new concept today. With advancements in web development technologies and how complex web codes are written today, web testing was bound to walk this way sooner or later. Factors affecting ROI in automated web testing. First of all, we need people that can perform automated web testing.

Strategy

Strategy Testing Cloud Virtualization

The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 In one test, I concatenated it all into one big file, and the other had the library split into 12 files. Read the complete test methodology. What happens when we adjust our compression strategy?

Cache

Cache Latency Strategy Speed

How to Write Good Bug Reports and Gather Quality Metrics Data

DZone

APRIL 23, 2019

Also, you will find information about bug taxonomy fields, which can help you to calculate later various quality metrics that can be used to improve the QA process in the future. I will write a dedicated article about quality metrics and how to calculate and visualize them.

Metrics

Metrics Strategy Testing Engineering

Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

Traffic

Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing

Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Bringing together metrics, logs, traces, problem analytics, and root-cause information in dashboards and notebooks, Dynatrace offers an end-to-end unified operational view of cloud applications. For model explainability, they can implement custom regression tests, providing indicators of model reputation and behavior over time.

Cache

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring

Multi-CDN Strategy: Benefits and Best Practices

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Network RedundancyThe primary and most important advantage of a Multi-CDN strategy is redundancy, and, consequently, improved reliability. M-CDN enables enacting a failover strategy with additional CDN providers that have not been impacted. Then, rigorous testing is necessary to ensure it functions properly.

Best Practices

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization

The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. Each kind of testing is listed chronologically—that is, you should do them in order—but all complement each other, and will ultimately feed into one another.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy

DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Organizations that are new to both practices will want to adopt a strategy that incorporates both. They enable organizations to set and measure specific metrics for agreed-upon service levels, ensuring that users receive the high-quality experience they expect. SLOs represent the health of a particular service. What are SLOs?

DevOps

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy

Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. But I must confess I was not too fond of having to report the results to stakeholders or deal with political/personal issues related to (poor) test results.

Open Source

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These streams use the same production encoding recipes so they are representative of production streams, but have the addition of extreme cases to stress test the decoder. The Client and UI Engineering team built a certification test with these streams to analyze both the device logs as well as the pictures rendered on the screen.

Media

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

Error budget burn rate = Error Rate / (1 – Target) Best practices in SLO configuration To detect if an entity is a good candidate for strong SLO, test your SLO. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric. See the following example with BurnRate formula for Failure rate event.

Efficiency

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics

Financial services IT leaders can boost customer lifetime value with DevSecOps-driven innovation

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Customer lifetime value (CLV) has long been established as the key metric financial services firms use to gauge their profitability and competitive position in the market. It is also central to helping leaders develop best-practice strategies to attract and retain new customers.

Innovation

Innovation DevOps Strategy Speed

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. If both objectives pass, you have achieved your cost reduction on CPU size.

AWS

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. RUM is ideally suited to provide real metrics from real users navigating a site or application.

Best Practices

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic

10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. However, the distributed system of a microservices architecture comes with its own cost: increased application complexity and convoluted testing. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

Architecture

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source

What is DevOps automation?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. Defect escape rate is the rate of issues and bugs that escape testing and arise after a software application is in production.

DevOps

DevOps Innovation Speed Monitoring

2022 ESG Report: Cloud-native applications lead modern IT, but create observability challenges

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2022

To address these challenges, organizations are adopting cloud-first strategies and cloud-native application development practices. Because cloud-native technologies are flexible and scale automatically, teams can replace manual application monitoring and testing methods to keep pace with innovation.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring

Introducing Dynatrace built-in data observability on Davis AI and Grail

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the age of AI, data observability has become foundational and complementary to AI observability, data quality being essential for training and testing AI models. Data is the foundation upon which strategies are built, directions are chosen, and innovations are pursued.

DevOps

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics

Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thus, while business resilience is about protecting against unforeseen risk, it also enables an organization to develop a forward-looking strategy that helps it thrive in uncertain times. To bounce forward, organizations need a strategy to build business resilience. This strategy involves people, process, and technology.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy Efficiency

What is MTTR? How mean time to repair helps define DevOps incident management

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

DevOps and ITOps teams rely on incident management metrics such as mean time to repair (MTTR). These metrics help to keep a network system up and running?, Other such metrics include uptime, downtime, number of incidents, time between incidents, and time to respond to and resolve an issue. So, what is MTTR? Mean time to repair.

DevOps

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network

Automated Change Impact Analysis with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

DevOps

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices

How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Engineering Speed

Applying real-world AIOps use cases to your operations

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps, combines big data and machine learning to provide actionable insight for IT teams to shape and automate their operational strategy. But before that new code can be deployed, it needs to be tested and reviewed from a security perspective. The deviating metric is response time.

DevOps

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Innovation

Sufficiently Advanced Monitoring is Indistinguishable from Testing

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

Traditional testing and monitoring practices have long been relied upon to achieve this goal. However, the line between testing and monitoring is becoming increasingly blurred with the emergence of synthetic monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring employs software-based agents to actively measure performance metrics.

Monitoring

Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

In summary, the Dynatrace platform enables banks to do the following: Capture any data type: logs, metrics, traces, topology, behavior, code, metadata, network, security, web, and real-user monitoring data, and business events. Automate stress-testing and regulatory reporting requirements. Break down data silos.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology

Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

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, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance

Accelerate observability with Dynatrace Managed performance improvements

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

Optimal metric storage management strategy. Dynatrace Managed metric storage management is reliable and delivers high performance. Our new solution for managing metric storage doesn’t reclaim disk space by data compaction. Impact on disk space. This is a 50% reduction in required disk space!

Performance

Performance Hardware Java Storage

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics Tool

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Which got me thinking, what if we could send our own DIY kit for our Flow Metrics tool— Tasktop Viz —to our Fortune 500 customers across major industries such as automotive, manufacturing, healthcare and finance? . Typically, you will require a: Product Manager: Manages the build and maintenance of the value stream metrics product.

Metrics

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Automating lifecycle orchestration including monitoring, remediation, and testing across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). SLO validation – ?Automatically Topics in this blog series. Annotation.

Software

Software Software Open Source Azure

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Driving Business Metrics.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Check out Dynatrace’s Load testing tool integration. Get started today! .

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

Causal AI use cases for modern observability that can transform any business

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

Marketers can use these insights to better understand which messages resonate with customers and tailor their marketing strategies accordingly. Software project managers can optimize development processes by analyzing workflow data, such as development time, code commits, and testing phases. Government.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government

What is synthetic testing?

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Trending Sources

What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Test Plan and Test Strategy: Best Practices That Will Make Your Product Development a Success

Performance Metrics of Your QA Team

The Role of A/B Testing in Website Development and Optimization

Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

Multi-CDN Strategy: Benefits and Best Practices

Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Automated web testing – some strategies to achieve ROI?

The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

How to Write Good Bug Reports and Gather Quality Metrics Data

Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Multi-CDN Strategy: Benefits and Best Practices

The Three Types of Performance Testing

DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Financial services IT leaders can boost customer lifetime value with DevSecOps-driven innovation

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

What is DevOps automation?

2022 ESG Report: Cloud-native applications lead modern IT, but create observability challenges

Introducing Dynatrace built-in data observability on Davis AI and Grail

Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

What is MTTR? How mean time to repair helps define DevOps incident management

Automated Change Impact Analysis with Site Reliability Guardian

How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Applying real-world AIOps use cases to your operations

Sufficiently Advanced Monitoring is Indistinguishable from Testing

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Accelerate observability with Dynatrace Managed performance improvements

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics Tool

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Causal AI use cases for modern observability that can transform any business

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