DZone
MARCH 19, 2021
If you are in the world of software development, you must be aware of Node.js. From Amazon to LinkedIn, a plethora of major websites use Node.js. Powered by JavaScript, Node.js can run on a server, and a majority of devs use it for enterprise applications. As they consider it a very respectable language due to the power it provides them to work with.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 8, 2021
By Michelle Brenner Netflix is poised to become the world’s most prolific producer of visual effects and original animated content. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent. Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need.
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Dynatrace
MARCH 5, 2021
Dynatrace news. In today’s complex IT environments, the sheer volume of data created makes it impossible for humans to monitor, comprehend, or troubleshoot problems before they impact the experience of your end users. Dynatrace Davis® AI has proven over the past four years that a fully automated approach to problem analysis is the only valid approach—especially in highly dynamic, web-scale cloud environments where manual root cause analysis is impossible.
High Scalability
MARCH 17, 2021
Hey, HighScalability is here again! Reverse engineering an ancient analog computer is a detective story worth reading. A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. Do you love this Stuff? Without your encouragement on Patreon this Stuff won't stuffin’ stuff. Know someone who needs to know the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.
Scalegrid
MARCH 2, 2021
When considering a new cloud provider, the big names come to mind - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. If you’re a developer, you might even be considering a dev-friendly cloud like DigitalOcean or Linode. But, did you know there’s a (relatively) new player in the cloud game? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cloud computing […].
All Things Distributed
MARCH 1, 2021
I am pleased to share that the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region has transitioned from a Local Region into a standard region with three Availability Zones (AZs), a broader (and growing) service portfolio, free tier option, and new pricing options. The region joins the existing 25 AZs in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
DZone
MARCH 11, 2021
We can plausibly say the enterprise development market turned the tide on cloud-native development in 2020, as most net-new software and serious overhaul projects started moving toward microservices architectures, with Kubernetes as the preferred platform. According to the 2020 DevOps Pulse survey of more than a thousand DevOps practitioners from mostly mid-to-large sized development and IT Ops shops, 56% of respondents store more than half their infrastructure in the cloud, while 42% store 75%
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Dynatrace
MARCH 11, 2021
Dynatrace news. It’s been a while since my last blog article on managing Dynatrace Managed at scale. Sorry for the readers who kept waiting for the next part – thanks for all the feedback and questions I received! In the fourth part of the series, I’ll show you how I used Dynatrace’s raw problem and event data to find the best fit for optimized anomaly detection settings.
Smashing Magazine
MARCH 2, 2021
The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. Kelvin Omereshone. 2021-03-02T16:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-14T15:55:39+00:00. Things have changed quite a bit over the last decade when we just started exploring what we could do on a tiny, shiny mobile screen. These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a
Scalegrid
MARCH 30, 2021
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 30, 2021 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) through their fully managed database hosting plans. In addition to their AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) and DigitalOcean hosting solutions, ScaleGrid now offers OCI hosting for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 23, 2021
15 years is a long time in the world of technology. Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support.
DZone
MARCH 11, 2021
Kubernetes is one of the most popular choices for container management and automation today. A highly efficient Kubernetes setup generates innumerable new metrics every day, making monitoring cluster health quite challenging. You might find yourself sifting through several different metrics without being entirely sure which ones are the most insightful and warrant utmost attention.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 1, 2021
Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive algorithms coordinated via complex, hierarchical workflows that last anywhere from minutes to years.
Dynatrace
MARCH 18, 2021
Dynatrace news. It’s no secret nearly every organization on the planet is undergoing a digital transformation right now. DevOps metrics and digital experience data are critical to this. Today’s consumers are increasingly connected, meaning organizations must reimagine their customer journeys to keep up with their needs. Yet for the hospitality sector, the adoption of digital strategies has not been so obvious.
TechBeacon Testing
MARCH 2, 2021
For DevOps teams, quality assurance isn’t enough: You need to up your game to quality engineering if you expect to increase velocity and improve quality through continuous integration.
SQL Performance
MARCH 10, 2021
This is the third part in a series about solutions to the number series generator challenge. In Part 1 I covered solutions that generate the rows on the fly. In Part 2 I covered solutions that query a physical base table that you prepopulate with rows. This month I’m going to focus on a fascinating technique that can be used to handle our challenge, but that also has interesting applications well beyond it.
Alex Russell
MARCH 6, 2021
TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two.
DZone
MARCH 17, 2021
You might have seen many articles on the internet regarding Nginx and how we can use Nginx for load balancing and reverse proxy. In this article, I would like to share my experience of setting up Nginx for load balancing and reverse proxy with SSL termination in Nginx. Are Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer Similar? Though both terminologies sound similar, a reverse proxy accepts requests from clients and forwards the request to servers for the actual processing.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 2, 2021
Stephanie Lane , Wenjing Zheng , Mihir Tendulkar Source credit: Netflix Within the rapid expansion of data-related roles in the last decade, the title Data Scientist has emerged as an umbrella term for myriad skills and areas of business focus. What does this title mean within a given company, or even within a given industry? It can be hard to know from the outside.
Dynatrace
MARCH 16, 2021
Dynatrace news. According to Gartner , “the long-term impact of AIOps on IT operations will be transformative.” AIOps will have a long-term and transformative impact on IT operations. The research firm predicts a significant uptick in AIOps investments over the next two years as organizations look for ways to improve IT outcomes, without breaking budgets or overworking technology staff.
TechBeacon Testing
MARCH 29, 2021
In a 1970s commercial, a boy asked a wise owl, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The owl, who was obviously a tester, decided to see how many licks it would take; in a humorous twist, he concluded that the answer was three. But on the third "lick," he crunched down on the pop and ate the candy.
KeyCDN
MARCH 10, 2021
We're excited about the newly launched points of presence (POPs) in 2021! So far, we've launched 5 new points of presence on 4 different continents and more will follow this year! Namely Dubai, Tel Aviv, Brisbane, Athens, and Lagos have been added. It's our mission to continuously improve web performance and each POP contributes to it. The new POPs are in production and have been automatically added to all existing Zones.
High Scalability
MARCH 18, 2021
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times.
DZone
MARCH 18, 2021
What is CORS. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a security mechanism built-in most modern browsers to restrict accessing resources from a server hosted on a different domain. Using CORS techniques, servers can limit the sharing of data to only trusted domains. Assume you have a frontend website hosted on [link] Some JavaScript code from your website is trying to access an API hosted on [link] This is an example of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing because the requesting domain and the resource
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 12, 2021
Written by Anton Margoline , Avinash Dathathri , Devang Shah and Murthy Parthasarathi. Credit to Netflix Studio’s Product, Design, Content Hub Engineering teams along with all of the supporting partner and platform teams. In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers technology and infrastructure to help production crews create and exchange media during production and post production stages.
Dynatrace
MARCH 22, 2021
Dynatrace news. While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. Such on-premises environments are usually large, typically consisting of thousands of hosts that are organized in physical data centers.
TechBeacon Testing
MARCH 17, 2021
Imagine you work for a company that has hundreds of developers pushing new code to production at any time, on any given day. The developers get there because every person on the dev team has a role in quality and testing.
CSS - Tricks
MARCH 29, 2021
Google has said that Web Core Vitals ( WCV ) are going to be an SEO factor, and the date is nigh: May 2021. So, I’m seeing some scrambling to make sure those metrics are good. Ya know, the acronym soup: CLS , LCP , and FID. There is starting to be more and more tooling to measure and diagnose problems. Hopefully, once diagnosed, you have some idea how to fix them.
High Scalability
MARCH 18, 2021
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times.
DZone
MARCH 12, 2021
On January 27, 2021, Angie Jones of Applitools hosted Brian Douglas , aka "bdougie", a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub, for a webinar to help you jump into GitHub Actions. You can watch the entire webinar on YouTube. This article goes through the highlights for you. Introduction. Angie Jones serves as Senior Director of Test Automation University and as Principal Developer Advocate at Applitools.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 22, 2021
Written by Nick Tomlin , Michael Possumato , and Rahul Pilani. This post shares how the Revenue & Growth Tools (RGT) team approaches creating full-stack tools for the teams that are the financial backbone of Netflix. Our primary partners are the teams of Revenue and Growth Engineering (RGE): Growth, Membership, Billing, Payments, and Partner Subscription.
Dynatrace
MARCH 16, 2021
Dynatrace news. We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers. HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.
TechBeacon Testing
MARCH 30, 2021
To realize the benefits of test automation, organizations have to take full advantage of smarter tools, according to the The World Quality Report 2020–2021.
SQL Performance
MARCH 30, 2021
This five-part series takes a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up. This first part covers the role of the parent task (coordinator) in preparing the plan for parallel execution. It includes initializing each operator, and adding hidden profilers to collect runtime performance data like actual row count and elapsed time.
High Scalability
MARCH 18, 2021
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times.
DZone
MARCH 31, 2021
It’s been some time since we published our last expert roundup , so we wanted to ask around in our community how leaders in testing are feeling these days about work (as we enter the second year of the pandemic), new trends they’re seeing on the horizon and advice for upping one’s testing game in 2021!
Particular Software
MARCH 1, 2021
Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost. Companies today have, for the most part, accepted this as just another cost of doing business in the modern world.
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