April, 2020

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One Team at Uber is Moving from Microservices to Macroservices

High Scalability

There may be an undiscovered tribe deep in some jungle somewhere that hasn’t made up their mind on microservices, but I doubt it. People love microservices or love to hate microservices. There’s not much in between. So it means something when even a team at a company like Uber announces a change away from microservices to something else.

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today’s world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting.

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Mutation Testing With SonarQube

DZone

In a previous post , we explored the PIT Mutation Testing Maven plugin. This time, we will take a look at how we can integrate the results with SonarQube, our favorite software analysis tool. Introduction. Before reading this post, it is advised to revise our previous post about Mutation Testing. In short, with Mutation Testing faults (or mutants) are introduced into your code and consequently, your tests are run again.

Testing 340
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Java memory optimizations: 3x Jenkins performance improvement with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In my last blog I covered how our Engineering Productivity (EP) and Infrastructure & Services (IAS) Teams are ensuring that our DevOps tool chain is running as expected, even while workloads have shifted as our global engineering teams are now working from home. Right after posting the blog another related story was brought to my attention which I am happy to share in this blog.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. The de facto text-compression of the web is Gzip, with around 80% of compressed responses favouring that algorithm, and the remaining 20% use the much newer Brotli. Of course, this total of 100% only measures compressible responses that actually were compressed—there are still many millions of resources that could

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 By Sekwon Choi At Netflix, we are obsessed with the best streaming experiences. We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. We are also committed to protecting users’ privacy and service security without sacrificing any part of the playback experience.

Network 243
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The DynamoDB Book: An Interview With Alex DeBrie On His New Book

High Scalability

You know nothing about DynamoDB. At least that’s what I realized the first time I heard Rick Houlihan give his now infamous talk at AWS re:Invent 2018 on Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB. In that talk Rick revealed for the first time the inner arcana of single-table design. Minds were blown. Weaknesses were revealed.

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Penetration Testing: What Is the Future Technology?

DZone

Cyberattacks are rising decade per decade, and this decade is no different. It is no surprise that web attacks rose by 56% in the last year alone, reports Norton's 2019 Internet Security Threat Report. It provides an insightful example: " Cybercriminals load malicious code onto retailers' websites to steal shoppers' credit card details, with 4,800+ unique websites compromised on average every month.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is a move towards digital services at an unprecedented scale. Some businesses are attempting to replace lost revenue streams through a shift to online activity. Other organizations are scrambling to support significant growth in online users. All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications.

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Reaffirming our commitment to Italy: Introducing the AWS Europe (Milan) Region

All Things Distributed

The global healthcare pandemic has been like nothing many of us in Europe have ever known. During this time, many organizations have been contemplating their role in the COVID-19 crisis, and how they can best serve their communities. I can tell you it has been no different for us at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are focused on where we can make the biggest difference, to help the global communities in which we all live and work.

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Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante

The Netflix TechBlog

By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

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Free Google Book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

High Scalability

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. It's free to download, so don't be shy. It's not short: 557 pages and 21 chapters! So what's it about? In short it's about "reliability through the lens of security.". In long, Ana Oprea, one of the authors, gave a good overview. anaoprea : There are multiple questions about what this book is about, who it's for and what might be relevant for me.

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The Cost of Javascript Frameworks

Tim Kadlec

There is no faster (pun intended) way to slow down a site than to use a bunch of JavaScript. The thing about JavaScript is you end up paying a performance tax no less than four times: The cost of downloading the file on the network. The cost of parsing and compiling the uncompressed file once downloaded. The cost of executing the JavaScript. The memory cost.

Mobile 145
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Site Optimization Framework To Boost Your Website Performance Using AEM

DZone

I often found that there are issues observed post-implementation due to not following the best practices recommended by Adobe. What Causes Performance Issues. Thread contention — long-running requests such as slow searches, write-heavy background jobs, moving of whole branches of site content, etc. High CPU utilization. Expensive requests such as expensive searches or inefficient application code, components, etc.

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Helping your digital services run optimally for your customers and employees during COVID-19

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Coronavirus continues to disrupt our personal and professional lives in ways many of us could never have imagined just a few short weeks ago. Amidst the uncertainty, we’re all working diligently to maintain continuity for our businesses, keep employees productive, and maintain customer satisfaction and experience through digital services.

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When scaling your workload is a matter of saving lives

All Things Distributed

On March 16, 2020, at 9:26 PM, I received an urgent email from my friend DJ Patil, former White House Chief Data Scientist, Head of Technology for Devoted Health, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Advisor to Venrock Partners. You don’t get that many titles after your name unless you’re pretty good at something. For DJ, that “something” is math and computer science.

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Profiling React.js Performance

Addy Osmani

This guide looks at measuring React component render performance with the React Profiler API, measuring interactions with React's new experimental scheduler and measuring custom metrics using the User Timing API.

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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 1

SQL Performance

This article is the first in a series about the fundamentals of table expressions in T-SQL. I will mainly focus on four types of named table expressions, which are known in T-SQL as derived tables, common table expressions (CTEs), views, and inline table-valued functions (inline TVFs). I was inspired to write this series by my good friend, Grant Fritchey , whom I have known for many years.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Andrew Clarke. 2020-04-13T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-04-13T12:35:21+00:00. While good use of type helps people to read, great typography can do so much more.

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3 Performance Testing Metrics Every Tester Should Know

DZone

Making sense of the average, standard deviation and percentiles in performance testing reports. There are certain performance testing metrics that are essential to understand properly in order to draw the right conclusions from your tests. These metrics require some basic understanding of math and statistics, but nothing too complicated. The issue is that if you don’t understand well what each one means or what they represent, you’ll come to some very wrong conclusions.

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Dynatrace named a Leader in 2020 Gartner?Magic Quadrant for APM – positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision; scored highest in 5 of 6 Critical Capabilities use cases

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Gartner just released its latest Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) , and a separate Critical Capabilities for APM report. We are thrilled to share Dynatrace has been named a Leader for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute for the 10th consecutive time. F or the third time in a row, we are positioned furthest in the quadrant for Completeness of Vision.

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Continuing our investment in Africa: Introducing the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region

All Things Distributed

As COVID-19 has disrupted life as we know it, I have been inspired by the stories of organizations around the world using AWS in very important ways to help combat the virus and its impact. Whether it is supporting the medical relief effort, advancing scientific research, spinning up remote learning programs, or standing-up remote working platforms, we have seen how providing access to scalable, dependable, and highly secure computing power is vital to keep organizations moving forward.

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HubSpot Migrating ZooKeeper into Kubernetes

High Scalability

We recently migrated hundreds of ZooKeeper instances from individual server instances to Kubernetes without downtime. Our approach used powerful Kubernetes features like endpoints to ease the process, so we’re sharing the high level outline of the approach for anyone who wants to follow in our footsteps. See the end for important networking prerequisites.

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An approach to index tuning – Part 2

SQL Performance

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. Up to this point we've identified the problematic query, the index I need, what indexes currently exist on the table, and whether or not those indexes are being used. Once we have that data, we can move on to the next steps in the process.

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Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React

Smashing Magazine

Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React. Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React. Blessing Krofegha. 2020-04-01T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-04-01T14:46:06+00:00. In this tutorial, you’ll learn what Headless CMS is, and the pros and cons of Headless CMS. In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system).

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Chaos Mesh — A Solution for System Resiliency on Kubernetes

DZone

Why Chaos Mesh? In the world of distributed computing, faults can happen to your clusters any time, anywhere. Traditionally we use unit tests and integration tests that guarantee a system is production-ready. However, these tests can’t cover everything as clusters scale, complexities mount, and data volumes increase by petabyte levels. To better identify system vulnerabilities and improve resilience, Netflix invented Chaos Monkey , which injects various types of faults into the infrastructure an

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Ensure that sensitive customer data is protected while monitoring mobile apps

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Whether you run a small food delivery company, a mid-sized movie-streaming business, or a multinational hotel group, Dynatrace Real User Monitoring provides gapless insight into all the user journeys of the customers of your app, from the frontend to the backend. Thus, you can proactively resolve issues and ensure that your applications meet your business goals.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

The pandemic affects everyone. Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery.

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3 test design principles to get you to continuous integration

TechBeacon Testing

If your test case is causing more harm than good, is it truly useful? In the days of legacy software delivery, with long lead times and great difficulty changing the product once shipped, nearly all test cases (automated or not) were good test cases.

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How do QA and Development Teams Work Together?

Kovair

When testers and developers cooperate, do consultation and coordinate on a specific project, the result is beyond expectations. With this kind of interaction, developers can.

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Post: InterviewCamp.io, Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a developm

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What Is Your Test Quality?

DZone

You have consistently written unit tests and you have a line coverage of, let us say, 80% and all of your tests pass. Pretty good, isn’t it? But then you change your code and still all of your tests pass although you have changed code which is covered by your unit tests. In this post, we will take a look at mutation testing which will test the quality of your unit tests.

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LATAM COVID-19 readiness

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Just like all other regions of the world, Dynatrace customers in Latin American (LATAM) are confronting new challenges as the global pandemic of COVID-19 forces companies to adapt to application and software demands. With the increasing consumption of infrastructure and core applications coupled with sustaining a fast and error-free user experience, Dynatrace is helping customers meet expectations of their customers.

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Web Performance Recipes With Puppeteer

Addy Osmani

This guide has recipes for automating Web Performance measurement with Puppeteer.

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Angular Performance Tuning: 15 Ways to Build Sophisticated Web Apps

Simform

Angular is, by default, a powerful and high performing front-end framework. Yet, unexpected challenges are bound to happen when you’re building mission-critical apps, apps that are content-heavy and complex on the architectural side. The post Angular Performance Tuning: 15 Ways to Build Sophisticated Web Apps appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Software Testing Strategies to Boost Business Growth

Kovair

This article explores software testing strategies that can improve business performance. In this article, you will get tips on how to establish long-term cooperation, create.

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Post: InterviewCamp.io, Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a developm

Education 102