April, 2021

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4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

DZone

Introduction. Today, the demand for software is higher than ever. Lines of code govern almost everything we do in our day-to-day activities. The way we buy, the way we sell, even the way we communicate. In 2019, according to Evans Data Corporation, there were 23.9 million developers worldwide. In an attempt to hold their place within the market, developers are having to speed their process up whilst delivering products of ever-increasing quality.

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Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD): How it enhances DevOps and continuous deployment

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. The surge in demand for digital services since 2020 is a trend that is here to stay and only expected to accelerate. To compete, organizations have to achieve both speed and reliability when bringing new products and services to market. To meet this demand, organizations are adopting DevOps practices , such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, and the related practice of continuous deployment, referred to collectively as CI/CD.

DevOps 279
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mysqldump Best Practices: Part 2 – Migrations Guide

Scalegrid

In the second and final part of our mysqldump best practices we will talk about how to handle the migration and import for stored program objects and views from your MySQL database. To read more about the prerequisites for a successful dump and restore operation for large MySQL databases, check out the first part of […].

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021

High Scalability

Hey, HighScalability is back! This channel is the perfect blend of programming, hardware, engineering, and crazy. After watching you’ll feel inadequate, but in an entertained sort of way. Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Do employees at your company need to know about the cloud? My book will teach them all they need to know.

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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites. Our top design priorities at the time were security, elasticity, reliability, durability, performance and cost because that’s what customers told us was most important to them for these types of applicat

Internet 217
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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. It quite could be that some other companies have something interesting too – but they are not sharing that. [Another interesting project in that area is keptn , but that is about it. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.] MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it.

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Core Web Vitals Optimization Techniques

DZone

Web Vitals is an initiative by Google that helps webmasters improve user experience on their website. The importance of UX can’t be ignored. Good user experience is a key to obtain high rankings on Google. From May 2021 onwards, Google will be launching a new update called the Page Experience that will promote websites offering an exceptional user experience.

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Redis vs. Memcached – 2021 Comparison

Scalegrid

Redis stands for REmote DIctionary Server, created in 2009 by Salvatore Sanfilippo. Memcached, on the other hand, was created in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick. Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL in-memory data structures Written in C Open source Used to speed up applications Support sub-millisecond latency In 2014, Salvatore wrote an excellent StackOverflow post on […].

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Three facts. Apple bars web apps from the only App Store allowed on iOS. [1]. Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. Apple claims that browsers on iOS are platforms sufficient to support developers who object to the App Store's terms.and a proposition: Apple's iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered.

Media 145
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A new era of DevOps, powered by machine learning

All Things Distributed

AWS is on a journey to revolutionize DevOps using the latest technologies. We are starting to treat DevOps, and the toolchains around it, as a data science problem – And when we think of it this way, code, logs, and application metrics are all data that we can optimize with machine learning (ML).

DevOps 216
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Flipr: Making Changes Quickly and Safely at Scale

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Uber’s many software systems require a high volume of changes every day. Because of our systems’ size and complexity, it is a significant challenge to implement these changes without unintended consequences, ultimately slowing down developer productivity. Flipr is a … The post Flipr: Making Changes Quickly and Safely at Scale appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Perl Test Coverage When You Don't Have a Makefile

DZone

Yesterday's pair programming session had Gábor Szabó and I thrashing around for a bit trying to figure out how to get test coverage statistics for the application. The Devel::Cover documentation lists how to run the module several ways , but it doesn't exactly describe how to run prove by itself rather than running a Makefile 's tests. I worked out how to do it today, and with the Baughs' help on Twitter I worked out a few more methods.

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Business Insights extends support for optimizing Core Web Vitals

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. This is good news if you’ve been tasked with leading a Core Web Vitals SEO project. But you may be wondering, “how do I get started?”. Not everyone has expertise in performance optimization and how it can impact SEO.

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals. Barry Pollard. 2021-04-19T08:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-19T08:35:54+00:00. Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. That date is approaching quickly and I’m sure lots of us are being asked to ensure we are passing our Core Web Vitals, but how can you know if you are?

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10 experts advise aspiring test automation engineers

TechBeacon Testing

Talk to 10 test automation experts on how to get started (or get better at your job), and you're likely to get 12 different answers. We know, because we tried, asking not for general, vague advice such as "Learn to code," but for specific websites, books, videos, and other resources to study.

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Sponsored Post: Failover Conf!, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

High Scalability

Fun and Interesting Events. Since we’re all feeling the fatigue of staring at screens all year, we’re switching things up at this year’s Failover Conf ! This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. You’ll also hear from a variety of industry experts in our two panel discussions.

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Number series generator challenge solutions – Part 4

SQL Performance

This is the fourth part in a series about solutions to the number series generator challenge. Many thanks to Alan Burstein, Joe Obbish, Adam Machanic, Christopher Ford, Jeff Moden, Charlie, NoamGr, Kamil Kosno, Dave Mason, John Nelson #2, Ed Wagner, Michael Burbea and Paul White for sharing your ideas and comments. I love Paul White ’s work. I keep being shocked by his discoveries, and wonder how the heck he figures out what he does.

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Control Flow: try-catch or if-else?

DZone

Introduction. Lately, while working on a new project, I had a chance to think about the proper way to handle control flow. As all developers might know well, the most common approaches used are try-catch and if-else. So far, I haven't thought deeply about the difference between these two. From time to time, I think I mainly adopted a more concise way of writing code.

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Showcasing engineering excellence at Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Whilst our traditional Dynatrace website predominantly showcases Dynatrace content and product information for visitors, the idea behind the creation of our new Engineering website – engineering.dynatrace.com – was to set up a space to feature the results of our research and innovation efforts and aims to be a site made by engineers for engineers.

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Signing Image Processing

KeyCDN

Signing Image Processing requests is an efficient way to ensure that no unwanted image operation can be executed. Every request needs a valid token in order to be delivered. Secure Token and Image Processing is a powerful setup to transform and deliver images in a secure way. If watermark images are signed correctly, the original base image cannot be accessed anymore.

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10 great podcasts for software test engineers

TechBeacon Testing

Software development practices change fast. Development teams use an endless stream of new tools, frameworks, and practices, and it’s your job as a test engineer to make sure that no matter what your development teams use or create, everything runs and works reliably.

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How to Improve CSS Performance

CSS - Tricks

There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why: When there is CSS available for a page, whether it’s inline or an external stylesheet, the browser delays rendering until the CSS is parsed. This is because pages without CSS are often unusable. The browser has to wait until the CSS is both downloaded and parsed to show us that first rendering of the page, otherwise browsing the web would be a terribly visually jerky to browse.

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Bootstrap vs Polymer: Let’s Put an End to the Debate!

Simform

With the ongoing debate and comparisons between popular front-end frameworks, I have come across this interesting idea of taking an unconventional framework and pitting it against a widely used one - Bootstrap vs. Polymer. You must be wondering, Why Bootstrap and Polymer? Read more to know about the differences. The post Bootstrap vs Polymer: Let’s Put an End to the Debate!

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Cisco Network Monitoring: 6 Best Practices

DZone

Introduction. It's often said that your network is the backbone of your IT infrastructure, underlying every other part of your enterprise IT. If your Cisco network infrastructure goes down or is experiencing performance issues, it's crucial that you have a real-time solution to identify and resolve the problem as soon as possible. But what does such a solution look like when it comes to Cisco networks?

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Lower total cost of ownership with improved OneAgent and ActiveGate update process

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. If you’re a Dynatrace administrator who’s responsible for installing and updating OneAgent or ActiveGate instances or you’re simply interested in learning how to get new functionality from Dynatrace as soon as possible, this blog post is for you. The OneAgent advantage. One of the reasons that Dynatrace stands out from the crowd is our OneAgent.

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How Parallel Plans Start Up – Part 3

SQL Performance

This is the third in a five-part series taking a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start executing. Part 1 initialized execution context zero for the parent task, and part 2 created the query scan tree. We are now ready to start the query scan, perform some early phase processing, and start the first additional parallel tasks.

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Email Infrastructure Monitoring Checklist

Dotcom-Montior

A lot of time and resources are invested in making sure your customers get your emails. This is where email infrastructure comes in handy. While you have limited control over user interaction with your emails, monitoring email infrastructure is in your hands. Email infrastructure usually consists of your server and domain configuration, server performance, IP address, mail agents, and more.

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Query Optimization in SQL Server for beginners

SQL Shack

This article intends to give some details about the query optimization process in SQL Server. Introduction The query optimization is very grinding work for the database professionals who desire to overcome performance issues of the queries. The reason for this problem is query optimization processes are a bit complicated and puzzling. In this context, understanding […].

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 billion if the site slowed down by just one secon

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Nightwatch vs. Protractor: Which Testing Framework Is Right For You?

DZone

Do you know the test automation market is all set to hit $35 billion by 2026 ? And when it comes to cross browser testing, JavaScript leads from the front? Javascript is probably the best alternative for Selenium automation, considering its protocol transformation to the W3C standard. In order to make the most of it, the first step is to choose the best test automation frameworks.

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Dynatrace expands strategic partnership with Atlassian to accelerate DevOps initiatives with observability and AIOps across the full software development lifecycle

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. We are pleased to announce Atlassian has selected Dynatrace as a launch partner for its Open DevOps initiative, which combines Atlassian products and best-in-class solutions from key partners to deliver full lifecycle value to customers. As part of this, Dynatrace is leading in the observability category, offering six integrations with Atlassian to ensure our shared DevOps customers can use the Dynatrace observability platform along with Jira Software as well as Bitbucket , Bambo

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How Parallel Plans Start Up – Part 2

SQL Performance

This is the second part of a five-part series taking a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up. By the end of the first part, we had created execution context zero for the parent task. This context contains the entire tree of executable operators, but they are not yet ready for the iterative execution model of the query processing engine.

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Configuration Testing – An Introduction

Testlodge

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws.

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Understanding Execution Plans of the SQL Server Insert statement

SQL Shack

In this article, we will learn how to interpret an execution plan of a SQL Server insert statement. Introduction When we execute an insert statement, the database engine performs tons of work in the background. Query execution operations, an internal data page, memory, and logging activities are performed by the SQL Server database engine. Consequently, […].

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How to Monitor Core Web Vitals and Take Action with Raygun

CSS - Tricks

Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your site, which takes 2 seconds, and now you’ve got monitoring in place. Why? Well now you can watch the performance of your site, not just in a single report of one test, but historical dashboards, tracking that performance over time.

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Test Orchestration and Its Need For Successful Automation

DZone

Introduction. We all know that the biggest challenge for any organization is the changing needs of the customers and finding a way to address these quickly without any compromise on quality. Agile Software Development methodology followed by most organizations plays a crucial role in handling this competitive situation. The Agile approach demands integrating the product component, deploying the product in a pre-production environment, and test it quite frequently.

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Dynatrace observability for e-commerce helps SAP deliver a record holiday shopping season

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. As e-commerce experiences become more sophisticated and we all rely on them more and more, observability for e-commerce applications and the clouds they run on has become more critical than ever to retailers’ success. Martin Auer, Senior Director of Observability at SAP, has been dealing with the pressures of the pandemic and surge in demand for digital experiences.

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