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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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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Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Transparency and scalability. The purpose of infrastructure as code is to enable developers or operations teams to automatically manage, monitor, and provision resources, rather than manually configure discrete hardware devices and operating systems. Lower MTTR. Infrastructure-as-code. Register now!

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Not because MySQL wasn’t performant but because the out-of-the-box defaults weren’t adequate for heavy traffic. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. As a platform operator, you want to identify problems quickly and learn from them to prevent future outages.

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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. Scalability comes at a price. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your environment is important. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

Even though most of the web browsers adhere to the Open Web Standards and render HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it does not guarantee constant performance throughout browsers. If an app ill-performs due to browser or viewport – the user experience is severely hampered. What Is Covered Under Cross Browser Compatibility Testing?

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests. Since there is no need to write any piece of code — testers can write test cases that are often aided by AI, therefore enhancing both performance and the speed of testing. Besides, it’s not scalable.

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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. RUM gathers data from real life users to analyze application performance. What is application performance monitoring (APM)?

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Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

To ensure the features run uniformly across various browsers and OS versions that our users have, we should perform multi-browser testing. Plus, there are multiple versions of operating systems and screen resolutions that our users browse content on. . with Safari at 8.87%. Picture Credit: Kinsta. Offers 24*7 support.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such solutions also incorporate features like disaster recovery and built-in safeguards that ensure data integrity across diverse operating systems.

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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. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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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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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. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Why HammerDB was developed. Derived Workloads.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Here, we’ll look at a few of these benefits in detail, exploring how Docker’s containerization can significantly boost the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of PostgreSQL deployments. However, for production environments, it’s important to consider factors like performance, data persistence, and security.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Kubernetes was architected to allow for additional technologies and services to assist in speed, scalability and reducing the overall complexity which can arise from a Microservices environment. In fact, once containerized, many of these services and the source code itself is virtually invisible in a standalone Kubernetes environment.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. Dynatrace offers Custom Service Entry Points , which virtually breaks the monolith and provides valuable information about whether organizations should break out certain pieces of the monolith. Systems monitoring and alerting.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Kubernetes has taken over the container management world and beyond , to become what some say the operating system or the new Linux of the cloud. But the re’s a price to pay ; an increasing complexity and burden for the operations teams in charge of managing the platform. Dynatrace news.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. About 20 percent would return a set of rows, but still operate on only a single table.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. Virtual Users. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads.

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Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

The primary purpose of React is to simplify the process of web development that is fast, scalable, and simple. More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Reactjs can help your business in web and mobile application development by bringing fast speed using the virtual DOM. The Performance hence depends upon third-party libraries.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Virtual DOM It means Document Object Model. ReactJS utilizes virtual DOM to improve the updating efficiency of actual DOM. ReactJS generates a virtual document object model instead of manipulating changes directly. It helps improve performance and provides a smoother user experience. V8 JavaScript runtime operates NodeJS.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Kubernetes was architected to allow for additional technologies and services to assist in speed, scalability and reducing the overall complexity which can arise from a Microservices environment. In fact, once containerized, many of these services and the source code itself is virtually invisible in a standalone Kubernetes environment.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. To do this, we needed to build management APIs that control the key functionality of our operations.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

If there are people who can lend you extraordinary infrastructures, tools, and high-performance servers, you should take advantage of them for the project. Automation testing on the cloud makes scalability testing an easier part. Cloud-based tools also provide detailed metrics with graphs to understand and analyze the performance.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Web apps allow you to break the traditional constraints of the desktop and mobile operating systems and provide freedom to experiment with different varieties of software. React got popular due to the virtual document object model (DOM) which enables it to enhance performance of web apps and PWA significantly.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. URL bar and virtual keyboard), and will not change its value even as the browser chrome changes. Currently, the fix is to update to 100% if you can. Cumulative Layout Shift.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

Here’s the set-up as relayed to me by Pat (with permission): At work, I am part of a good sized team working on a large system implementation. One of the very senior engineers with 25+ years experience mentioned a problem with the system. The system just crawled forever and never seemed to get out of this state.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

Owing to the abundance of apps and websites in the market, an average user has several choices, and to ensure the user consumes your product, you’ll have to craft products that are compatible with their devices that run on various operating systems. So, that can be expensive if you’re looking for scalability.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Scalability. So if you have compared the results of your own application and it is repeatable and scalable then why not use that for all of your benchmarking going forward? That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2. Shareability.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This complexity is “hidden” to the end user, like how an API (Application Programming Interface) operates, whether that is an actual user or another computer. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Scalability.

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