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What Is a Performance Engineer and How to Become One: Part 1

DZone

A performance engineer is actually a professional performance testing and engineering expert with in-depth knowledge of many load-testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Neoload, Gatling, K6, etc., and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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Washed Up

Alex Russell

The politics of blockchain proponents have led them to explicitly reject the foundational protocols and technical underpinnings of the web. "web3" One could imagine blockchain-based solutions to some of these problems, but this isn't the focus of "web3" boosters today. Blockchain protocols. Cryptocurrencies.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines. Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. This comes in the form of micropayments. Periods (e.g.

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Storage Autoscaling With Percona Operator for MongoDB

Percona

In the cloud era, however, developers and operation engineers started fully embracing automation tools making their job significantly easier. ViewBlock , a blockchain explorer, uses the Percona Operator for MongoDB to store critical data.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

It’s really engineered to absorb failure really naturally, make sure everyone is taken care of, and go on to something productive next. David Gerard : Companies are shocked to realise that blockchain — an expensive and useless idea that has soaked up millions of dollars for zero return — may not be a good technology.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

Blockchain is a solution in search of problems. Valeriy Kravchuk : Partitioning bugs do not get proper attention from Oracle engineers. Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented.

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Ensuring Performance, Efficiency, and Scalability of Digital Transformation

Alex Podelko

And we still have a lot of great sessions covering other hot topics: digital transformation, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, etc. – Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider. Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering. a Panel Discussion.