Rigor

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Reading time 4 min People all over the world consume data on a daily basis across a variety of networks, geographies, and devices. From a technical perspective, an API is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a web-based software application or service. APIs are the unsung heroes of the modern web.

Programming 82

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

Speed and Accuracy. It also lets you perform mobile website testing on throttling network conditions – a scenario that is so real in today’s world where the usage of mobile internet is rising at an alarming rate! Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

“In this leader’s guide to digital transformation, you’ll get practical, actionable information on building an employee and customer-obsessed culture that drives speed and efficiency while leveraging technology to sell better products and services.”. For more information, visit: [link]. Author: Eric Ries.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Continuous integration ("CI") is a stepping stone on the journey to streamlined software delivery. Here's a short (and definitely not exhaustive) list of things that you may want to consider when running performance tests on an integration environment: Caches may need to be warmed up beforehand. Break the build! I know, I know.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required.

Engineering 110

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure. SQL Server Management Studio: This software includes backup and recovery tools for use with Microsoft SQL Server.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

When testing the speed of XtraBackup streaming, we can see a limitation of around 1.8 This architecture works fine when uploading data via WAN (we mostly will not have this speed over WAN). However, needing to stream backups over the LAN has become more popular, and 10Gbps or more is the standard setup.

Storage 77

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Definitely writing the automation code covering all of these differences is quite challenging.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Establishing software root of trust unconditionally Gligor & Woo, NDSS’19. By definition, a solution to a security or cryptography problem is unconditional if it depends only on the existence of physical randomness and the ability to harvest it… We know of no other protocols that establish RoT provably and unconditionally.

Software 40

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Part Two of the Humanizing Software Quality Series from Intellyx, for Apica. In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. Putting the user at the center instead of the software. You can almost think of it as software documentation in reverse. The result?

Testing 52

Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. They’d say that the job involves writing some software, sure. But deep down it’s about the purpose of software. Pretty simple.

Tuning 133

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. A Primer on Speed. Congestion Control.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Records backup progress logging.

Best Practices 52

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. These definitions are usually broke down by behaviors. There are a number of programmers who swear by the speed and performance of Scala. Guest Post by Wendy Dessler. Source- Pixabay.

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Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

We love it so much that we devise new ways all the time to incorporate automation in each and every field of software development. What could be the best choice to cut down the costs and gain speed to move the pipeline faster than test automation? Test automation in conventional software is straightforward.

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users are definitely facing these problems: 7% report that data quality has hindered further adoption, and 4% cite the difficulty of training a model on their data. They will simply be part of the environment in which software developers work. Few nonusers (2%) report that lack of data or data quality is an issue, and only 1.3%

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

Many use cases within your software development and delivery pipelines depend on the real-time metrics that your Dynatrace environment collects. Use an asterisk ( * ) as a wildcard character to query for all host and disk related metric definitions, as shown below: Efficient query strings for selecting one or more metrics.

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Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

Let’s briefly describe the basic definitions of each of them first and then describe in detail the underlying differences that make them fall apart in certifying the quality of each of them. Any network-related latencies result in performance hindrances in these types of applications.

Testing 63

Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

“Coping with complexity” is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. Remember that ‘agent’ here could be a human – trying to form a sufficient mental model to triage an incident for example – or a software agent.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Definitions. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Static Files. Media Files.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

Systems 40

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. There are workarounds: I can use the perf_events cgroup ID, provided the container software is configuring it (they do). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. As events are immutable we were caching them in Memcache for 12 hours but even them downloading the same events so many times from Memcache was causing network issues.

Architecture 52

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