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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Top 7 Affiliate Programs for Testers and Developers

DZone

These tech geeks with their supreme knowledge can add more value to their company, and also themselves, through affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are an arrangement through which an online merchant sends traffic to a website and is paid accordingly. Affiliate programs are also called associate programs.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Jaeger and ScyllaDB Integration: High Performance at Scale

DZone

Jaeger has gained significant popularity in the software development community due to its powerful capabilities and ease of integration with various programming languages and frameworks. Use the best-performing Jaeger storage backend that you can find.

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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This process may involve behavioral analytics; real-time monitoring of network traffic, user activity, and system logs; and threat intelligence.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. History of Lisp ( Hacker News).

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

For example, teams can program synthetic test tools to send large volumes of simultaneous resource requests to a new application and evaluate how well it responds. While teams can program them to rage click after a certain point or even randomly, they can never truly replicate the real-user experience. HTTP monitors.

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