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Don't rely on end-to-end tests: design for failure instead.

DZone

We typically understand software testing by the everyday definition of the word: making sure a piece of software performs the way it is supposed to in a production-like environment. For a complex distributed application with several external dependencies there is nothing that can beat a full end-to-end test. Or is there?

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

A contributor develops software and makes it available under an open source license for others to contribute to, improve, and expand. The scope of OSS ranges from small components, such as a Java class library, to complete systems, such as the Apache HTTP Server Project and the Kubernetes container management system.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient.

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

A contributor develops software and makes it available under an open source license for others to contribute to, improve, and expand. The scope of OSS ranges from small components, such as a Java class library, to complete systems, such as the Apache HTTP Server Project and the Kubernetes container management system.

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

A contributor develops software and makes it available under an open source license for others to contribute to, improve, and expand. The scope of OSS ranges from small components, such as a Java class library, to complete systems, such as the Apache HTTP Server Project and the Kubernetes container management system.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources. The key is knowing what is the root cause of the performance issue. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized method to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysts to understand software performance and behavior.

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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

Smashing Magazine

Caching is a great means of improving software performance — it could save the costs of database usage, third-party API calls, and server-to-server requests. With WeakMap() , the cached result will be automatically removed from memory as soon as the object is garbage-collected. Additional Data.

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