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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. Acting behind the scenes, load testing ensures the apps and websites we use daily are capable of withstanding the demands of their users without stumbling.

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How to Trace Linux System Calls in Production (Without Breaking Performance)

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If you need to dynamically trace Linux process system calls, you might first consider strace. strace is simple to use and works well for issues such as "Why can't the software run on this machine?" So are there any tools that excel at tracing system calls in a production environment? The answer is YES.

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Revolutionizing Observability: How AI-Driven Observability Unlocks a New Era of Efficiency

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Observability is the ability to measure the state of a service or software system with the help of tools such as logs, metrics, and traces. In this article, we will discuss the importance of observability in distributed systems, the different tools used for monitoring, and the future of observability and Generative AI.

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Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

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These are the goals of AI observability and data observability, a key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , the observability provider’s annual conference, which takes place in Las Vegas from January 29 to February 1, 2024. Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Site Reliability Engineering

DZone

In the dynamic world of online services, the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) has risen as a pivotal discipline, ensuring that large-scale systems maintain their performance and reliability.

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Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

The Morning Paper

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.