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What Is Load Testing? Ensuring Robust System Performance Under Pressure

DZone

While load testing may sound like an esoteric domain exclusive to software engineers or network administrators, it is, in fact, a silent superhero in our increasingly digital world. It's the silent force keeping the digital infrastructure wheel rotating smoothly, even during peak usage times.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging. The volume of travel spending booked online is expected to reach nearly $1.5 availability.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Extend the AI and automation core of Dynatrace with host extensions to resolve infrastructure problems

Dynatrace

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. One of our software engineers, Tomasz Gajger, has been involved in a research project related to GPU performance analysis.