Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

Design 246

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. We finish by testing for len > 255. Thought Experiment.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Configuration testing plays a critical part in the development life cycle by specifying the quality and portability of software. It helps to understand whether a program can be used on any operating system other than the one for which it was designed.

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Software Software Testing Operating System 244

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start.

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Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 69

DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As organizations increasingly embrace the microservices approach, the need for a resilient testing framework becomes important for the reliability, scalability , and security of these distributed systems. What Is MRTF? In embracing a holistic and collaborative approach, let’s start by explaining the cornerstones of MRTF.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Software Development goes through many phases like requirement gathering & analysis, communication, design, code building, testing, and release. Testing is an indispensable part of the SDLC and can be achieved either manually or automatically. What is Unit Testing?

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Testing Mobile Design Software 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

White box testing The nicest thing about deploying UI changes to production is that you can immediately see the changes in action. You can see when a new version is deployed, test it to ensure everything works as expected, and youre done. Test data collection Accurate test data can mean life or death. Figure 3.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent. ' # settings.configuration.EXP_01.yaml

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira. Evaluate.

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DZone

JULY 26, 2022

Development and designing are crucial, yet equally significant is making sure that you have developed the software product as per the necessities. This non-functional testing can be conducted either through automation tools or can be performed manually. What Is the Compatibility Test?

Testing 246

Testing Hardware Mobile Operating System 246

O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray modelwhere business logic lives entirely in promptscreates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems 119

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

We often undertake testing of failover characteristics of various MongoDB drivers to qualify them for production use cases, or when our customers ask us for advice. Testing Failover Behavior. With MongoDB deployments, failovers aren’t considered major events as they were with traditional database management systems.

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DZone

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Selenium Grid has been an integral part of automation testing, as it lets you perform test case execution on different combinations of browsers, operating systems (or platforms), and machines. It also enables you to perform parallel execution to expedite the cross-browser testing process.

Testing 203

Testing Operating System Performance Testing Architecture 203

DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This makes cross-browser testing extremely important as it lets you compare the functionalities and design of a website on multiple browsers, devices, and platforms (operating systems). To fast-track the process of browser compatibility testing , developers should use automated browser testing.

Testing 203

Testing Website Operating System Design 203

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. The new version of the application is deployed in the green environment and tested for functionality and performance. Step 6 — Flow Designer rolls back through keptn.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

For instance, Dynatrace has developed the Cost and Carbon Optimization app, a tool designed to measure, understand, and act on the energy consumption and carbon emissions generated by hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. Collect metrics on energy consumption or derive them from existing signals.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 147

DZone

MAY 3, 2023

System testing, also known as system-level testing, involves evaluating how the various components of an application interact in a fully integrated system. It is carried out on the entire system under either functional or design requirements.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Systems Testing Design 130

DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What comes to your mind when you hear the term Black box, specifically concerning testing? Well, it is something that is not very common to listen to but remains an essential form of software testing. It is a software testing technique to examine the functioning of software from an external outlook without digging deeper into its code.

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Testing Software Software Code 235

DZone

APRIL 21, 2023

Test tools are software or hardware designed to test a system or application. Various test tools are available for different types of testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and more.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Testing Hardware 196

DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

How to start Kafka performance testing with JMeter + Pepper-Box plugin ? Is it possible to write samplers for JMeter on your own to provide Kafka performance testing? That is why it is a great opportunity to know what approach to choose for performance test design for this system component. Agenda for This Article.

Performance Testing 223

Performance Testing Testing Performance Open Source 223

Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. Changes are introduced on a controlled schedule, typically once a week, to reduce the risk of affecting customer systems.

Monitoring 279

Monitoring Open Source Testing Software 279

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Integration with existing systems and processes : Integration with existing IT infrastructure, observability solutions, and workflows often requires significant investment and customization. Thermal design power (TDP) values are derived from AMD and Intel to calculate CPU power consumption.

Energy 223

Energy Analytics Traffic Cloud 223

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model. Ideally, we would have causal estimates from an A/B test to use for validation, but since that is not available, we use another causal inference design as one of our ensemble of validation approaches.

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Analytics Engineering Games Entertainment 190

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Need to catch up?

Testing 211

Testing Latency Metrics Design 211

DZone

MAY 18, 2020

The most popular design pattern used in web UI test codebases is the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern. This pattern suggests modeling a class to represent a single page of your system under test. Given this is the Login Page of our application, let’s discuss tips for building a class using POM.

Design 246

Design Testing Systems Development 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Building the dream package Observability for Developers, the newly introduced offering from Dynatrace, is designed to cater to developers’ specific needs and challenges. In a single view, developers get an instant overview of application performance, system health, logs, problems, deployment status, user interactions, and much more.

Development 235

Development Analytics Code Architecture 235

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

Software 245

Software Software Code Design 245

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

These issues can arise from errors in the code, insufficient testing, or unforeseen interactions among software components. A poorly tested feature release leads to incompatibility issues, resulting in downtime for users. A poorly tested feature release leads to incompatibility issues, resulting in downtime for users.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

We had an interesting challenge on our hands: we needed to build the core of our app from scratch, but we also needed data that existed in many different systems. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design. We treat it as an input for our system.

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Architecture Transportation Java Strategy 346

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

Open Source 147

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System 147

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

Engineering 165

Engineering Systems Availability Scalability 165

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 285

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

Design 145

Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2024

The FedRAMP Moderate baseline is designed to protect sensitive data that, if compromised, could seriously adversely affect operations, assets, or individuals. System Backup now requires the backup of privacy-related system documentation. Understanding FedRAMP Moderate and transition to Rev.5 state and federal agencies.

Government 279

Government Programming Cloud Innovation 279

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Each has its own role to play in successfully implementing this tactical trifecta at scale.

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