DZone
AUGUST 14, 2024
When building ETL data pipelines using Azure Data Factory (ADF) to process huge amounts of data from different sources, you may often run into performance and design-related challenges. This article will serve as a guide in building high-performance ETL pipelines that are both efficient and scalable.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) adopted by the EU addresses the digital and cybersecurity resilience of financial institutions. Although DORA helps banking and financial institutions prevent, respond to, and recover from critical cybersecurity incidents, DORA compliance could present many hurdles for financial institutions. Applying the DORA framework is especially challenging as organizations move more workloads to the cloud and manage sprawling hybrid and multi-cloud environments
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CSS Wizardry
AUGUST 14, 2024
WebKit have recently announced their intent to implement the blocking=render attribute for and elements, bringing them in line with support already available in Blink and generally positive sentiment in Firefox. The blocking=render attribute allows developers to explicitly mark a resource as render blocking, but… why on earth would you want to do that?!
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 22, 2024
Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs of our customers.
Scalegrid
AUGUST 30, 2024
Follow fundamental procedures in authentication, encryption, and commitment to RabbitMQ security protocols to protect your RabbitMQ system and secure messages. This article provides instructions on how to fortify your RabbitMQ setup. Key Takeaways Securing RabbitMQ involves implementing strong authentication and authorization mechanisms, such as username/password pairs, X.509 certificates, and OAuth 2.0, to prevent unauthorized access and ensure data protection.
InfoQ
AUGUST 20, 2024
James Munro discusses ArcticDB and the practicalities of building a performant time-series datastore and why transactions, particularly the Isolation in ACID is just not worth it.
DZone
AUGUST 19, 2024
CI/CD and Its Importance We all know what CI/CD is and how it fosters a sense of collaboration among teams and enables them to deliver high-quality software efficiently and reliably. By automating the integration, testing , and deployment processes, CI/CD helps maintain code quality, reduce manual effort, and provide continuous feedback, ultimately leading to faster and more reliable software delivery.
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CSS Wizardry
AUGUST 19, 2024
For the longest time now, I have been obsessed with caching. I think every developer of any discipline would agree that caching is important, but I do tend to find that, particularly with web developers, gaps in knowledge leave a lot of opportunities for optimisation on the table. How does it affect you? Want to know everything (and more) about HTTP cache?
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 29, 2024
Builders are at the heart of AWS. Most recently, I visited Malaysia, the location of the newest AWS Region, our 34th globally, and home to a rapidly evolving technology sector, where businesses of all sizes are proving that solving hard human problems can be a profitable business model.
Scalegrid
AUGUST 27, 2024
Wondering where RabbitMQ fits into your architecture? This article expands on the most commonly used RabbitMQ use cases, from microservices to real-time notifications and IoT. Learn how RabbitMQ can boost your system’s efficiency and reliability in these practical scenarios. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ is a versatile message broker that improves communication across various applications, including microservices, background jobs, and IoT devices.
Percona
AUGUST 8, 2024
The usage of MySQL Router as a Middleware/Proxy/Router has increased along with the rise in MySQL InnoDB Cluster usage. While it is still relatively easy to use in production, monitoring it to stay informed about its current status is essential.
DZone
AUGUST 26, 2024
Today, machine learning-based fraud prediction has become a mainstay in most organizations. The two common types of machine learning are supervised and unsupervised machine learning. Out of the two, supervised learning is the most desired choice for fraud prediction for apparent reasons. Supervised learning that learns the patterns from known fraud cases yields more accurate predictions.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 8, 2024
As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. From business operations to personal communication, the reliance on software and cloud infrastructure is only increasing. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations. Understanding the causes of these outages is crucial for preventing them and ensuring smoother, more reliable tech operations.
The Agile Manager
AUGUST 31, 2024
In the years immediately following the dot-com meltdown, there was more tech labor than there were tech jobs. That didn’t last long. By 2005, the tech economy had bounced back on its own. After that, the emergence of mobile (a new and lucrative category of tech) plus low interest rate policy by central banks fueled demand for tech. Before the first decade of the century was out, “tech labor scarcity” became an accepted norm.
InfoQ
AUGUST 7, 2024
Canva evaluated different data massaging solutions for its Product Analytics Platform, including the combination of AWS SNS and SQS, MKS, and Amazon KDS, and eventually chose the latter, primarily based on its much lower costs. The company compared many aspects of these solutions, like performance, maintenance effort, and cost.
Sutter's Mill
AUGUST 7, 2024
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Jens Maurer, Richard Smith, Krystian Stasiowski, and Ville Voutilainen, who are all ISO C++ committee core language experts, for helping make my answer below correct and precise. I recently got this question in email from Sam Johnson. Sam wrote, lightly edited: Given this code, at function local scope: int a; a = 5; So many people think initialization happens on line 1, because websites like cppreference defines initialization as “Initialization of a variable pro
Percona
AUGUST 13, 2024
Character collations determine the sort order and classification of characters. When creating a database with initdb, PostgreSQL normally sets the collation based on the operating system’s locale settings, but other special collations, such as “C,” “POSIX,” and “ucs_basic,” are available as alternatives. On Linux systems, updates to glibc can bring changes to collation rules.
DZone
AUGUST 4, 2024
Unit testing is the first line of defense against bugs. This level of protection is essential as it lays the foundation for the following testing processes: integration tests, acceptance testing, and finally manual testing, including exploratory testing. In this article, I will shed some light on what differentiates unit testing from other methods and will bring examples of when we can or cannot do without unit testing.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 12, 2024
Performance and error optimization is complicated, and the approach to driving improvement has long relied on static recommendations disconnected from a site’s end users and their experiences. While traditional methods can help you understand when your users face poor performance or errors, understanding if and how much these problems impact your business remains largely guesswork.
O'Reilly
AUGUST 13, 2024
Over the years, many of us have become accustomed to letting computers do our thinking for us. “That’s what the computer says” is a refrain in many bad customer service interactions. “That’s what the data says” is a variation—“the data” doesn’t say much if you don’t know how it was collected and how the data analysis was performed. “That’s what GPS says”—well, GPS is usually right, but I have seen GPS systems tell me to go the wrong way down a one-way street.
InfoQ
AUGUST 21, 2024
The insightful piece featured on InfoQ delves into the intricacies of Azure Functions’ Cold Starts, illuminating a topic frequently stirring debate within the serverless computing sphere. With the growing embrace of serverless architectures, discussions around Azure Functions’ cold starts have ignited a firestorm of controversy and given rise to numerous misconceptions.
Speed Curve
AUGUST 6, 2024
TL;DR; We're making improvements to how we collect RUM data. Most customers won't see significant changes to Core Web Vitals or other metrics but for a small number of customers some metrics will increase. This post will cover: What the changes are How the changes can affect Core Web Vitals and other metrics Why we are making the changes now What's Changing?
Percona
AUGUST 6, 2024
The ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command allows us to set the privileges that will be applied to objects created in the future. It’s important to note that this does not affect privileges assigned to existing objects; default privileges can be set globally for objects created in the current database or in specified schemas.
DZone
AUGUST 28, 2024
Teams often consider external caches when the existing database cannot meet the required service-level agreement (SLA). This is a clear performance-oriented decision. Putting an external cache in front of the database is commonly used to compensate for subpar latency stemming from various factors, such as inefficient database internals, driver usage, infrastructure choices, traffic spikes, and so on.
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. This level of access enables advanced capabilities such as runtime instrumentation and detailed diagnostics. While these techniques are powerful, they can pose risks if not managed properly, as demonstrated in the recent incident.
VoltDB
AUGUST 27, 2024
Volt Active Data (Volt) is a sophisticated real-time data platform intricately designed with multiple critical components, including high-speed data processing, in-memory storage, and ACID-compliant transactions. Volt’s outbound streaming data (also known as Export) functionality, a key aspect of its distributed database system, has multiple components crucial for efficient data movement.
Abstracta
AUGUST 22, 2024
Find our Top 10 Performance Testing Tools in this article, including a balanced mix of open-source platforms and proprietary testing tools. The post Performance Testing Tools: Top 10 Picks for 2024 appeared first on Blog about Software Development, Testing, and AI | Abstracta.
Speed Curve
AUGUST 20, 2024
Making newer RUM metrics more actionable has been a significant priority for standards bodies. RUM has always been incredibly important for any organization focused on performance, but it’s only in the last few years that it has started to become more actionable. A big part of this shift has been better attribution so we can tell what's actually going on.
Percona
AUGUST 12, 2024
While the well-established ways of building PostgreSQL from source still work, there are many new options on Linux as well. Postgres has adopted Meson as a build system, and there are more—and more granular—git commands.
DZone
AUGUST 22, 2024
I recently compared three OpenTelemetry approaches on the JVM: Java Agent v1, v2, and Micrometer. I used Kotlin and coroutines without overthinking. I received interesting feedback on the usage of @WithSpan with coroutines: Indeed, the @WithSpan annotation has worked flawlessly in conjunction with coroutines for some time already. However, it made me think about the underlying workings of OpenTelemetry.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 27, 2024
Following Tenable Research’s disclosure of a critical SQL injection vulnerability in FileCatalyst Workflow in May 2024, further investigation by Dynatrace revealed another SQL injection vulnerability. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-6632, allows the abuse of a form submission during the setup process to make unauthorized modifications of the database.
VoltDB
AUGUST 8, 2024
In a world where 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated each day, enterprises have more data under their control than ever before. Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. Just like you can’t finish a puzzle without all of the pieces, organizations can’t make the best decisions without being able to leverage all of the data they have at any given time.
n0derunner
AUGUST 22, 2024
Example timings forreading a file sequentially 8k per request – after invalidating/dropping Linux filesystem caches. (echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) An absolutely massive difference… What fadvise_sequential basically instructs the filesystem to read-ahead asynchronously, whereas fadvise_random does neither (similar behavior/speed was observed for ext2 and ext4 filesystems) From iostat we see this POSIX_FADV_RANDOM The iosize in iostat … The post Effect of POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIA
Speed Curve
AUGUST 18, 2024
Paper cut: (literal) A wound caused by a piece of paper or any thin, sharp material that can slice through skin. (figurative) A trivial-seeming problem that causes a surprising amount of pain. We all love big showy features, and this year we've released our share of those. But sometimes it's the small stuff that can make a big difference. We recently took a look at our backlog of smaller requests from our customers – which we labelled "paper cuts" – and decided to dedicate time to ta
Percona
AUGUST 14, 2024
Group replication is a fault-tolerant/highly available replication topology that ensures if the primary node goes down, one of the other candidates or secondary members takes over so write and read operations can continue without any interruptions.
DZone
AUGUST 13, 2024
Are you ready to start your journey on the road to collecting telemetry data from your applications? Great observability begins with great instrumentation! In this series, you'll explore how to adopt OpenTelemetry (OTel) and how to instrument an application to collect tracing telemetry. You'll learn how to leverage out-of-the-box automatic instrumentation tools and understand when it's necessary to explore more advanced manual instrumentation for your applications.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 21, 2024
The Dynatrace third-party vulnerabilities feature provides insights into vulnerable software packages by matching detected package identifiers and version numbers with known vulnerable software packages and related common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). The risk of impact from an existing known vulnerability also depends on whether certain processes are using the vulnerable parts of a software component.
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