November, 2021

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Evaluating JS in The Browser for A Low Code Product

DZone

I work at Appsmith , an open-source low code platform for developers to build internal tools and workflows. At Appsmith, our developer users define business logic by writing any JS code in between {{ }} dynamic bindings almost anywhere in the app. They can use this while creating SQL queries, APIs, or triggering actions. This functionality lets you control how your app behaves with the least amount of configuration.

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Business observability and customer experience: A competitive edge for financial services

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the financial services industry had to adapt quickly, as long-anticipated shifts in customer preferences—from branch offices and bankers to websites and apps – suddenly became the new normal. At the same time, deregulation fuels massive investments in fintech startups and opens doors for tech giants to point their data-centric innovation engines towards financial services.

FinTech 272
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How to Migrate Redis™ Data Using Redis-Shake

Scalegrid

Migrating ScaleGrid for Redis™ data from one server to another is a common requirement that we hear from our customers. Two of the main reasons we hear are often due to migration of hardware, or the need to split data between servers. Typically, you want to migrate with minimal downtime while using the standard Redis […].

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Netflix is proud to be a founding member of AOMedia and a key contributor to the development of AV1.

Media 246
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Architecture of Max reHIT Workout

High Scalability

Today I have the pleasure of announcing my new app— Max reHIT Workout —on Product Hunt. Max reHIT Workout is an exercise app that guides you through interval workouts. I won’t pitch the app here. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. I know I haven’t been writing much lately.

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Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – Where speed meets consistency

All Things Distributed

We dive into the design of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a strongly-consistent, Redis-compatible, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance.

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Test Plan vs. Test Strategy: What's the Difference?

DZone

In the process of testing a software application, test plans and test strategies are quite crucial. A strong test plan and strategy will always prevent errors in the application. As software testers, we should be aware of these 2 phrases, as they are critical in testing software applications. We will learn about Test Plans and Test Strategies in this article.

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How to Deploy PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

PostgreSQL is a widely-used, enterprise-grade, and open-source relational database management system and is the fourth most popular database in the world according to DB-Engines. It is an RDBMS that is rapidly growing within the developer community. DigitalOcean, a fast-growing cloud provider that’s increasing in popularity amongst developers and companies, is a great host to consider […].

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Building confidence in a decision

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , Michael Lindon , and Colin McFarland This is the fifth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Part 3 (False positives and statistical significance), and Part 4 (False negatives and power).

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A Guide To Modern CSS Colors

Smashing Magazine

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. Michelle Barker. 2021-11-17T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-17T16:37:20+00:00. There’s more to color on the web than meets the eye, and it’s about to get a lot more interesting! Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.

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Announcing the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator: It’s still Day One for robotics

All Things Distributed

The AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator aims to help robotics startups adopt and use AWS to boost their robotics development.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Benefits of Hyperautomation

DZone

Automation wasn’t well-received when it was first introduced among the different industry verticals. Most companies were hesitant in employing this new technology simply because they feared what they didn't fully understand. As time went on, automation technology slowly became accepted until it turned into the norm. New trend, especially such as hyperautomation is being pushed forward with a growing number of businesses changing their ways to a more “people-centric” approach.

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AWS Re:Invent 2021 guide: Multicloud modernization and digital transformation

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Digital transformation with AWS: Making it real with AIOps. When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. Serverless architecture enables organizations to deliver applications more efficiently without the overhead of on-premises infrastructure, which has revolutionized software development.

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Interview Performance Does Not Equal Job Performance

Professor Beekums

This is a conversation I had when I was interviewing a few years ago: Interviewer: “Yeah, a lot of candidates actually have trouble with this problem because it never shows up in the software we write.” Me: “…so why is it part of the interview?” Silence There is so much content out there right now about what candidates can do to “stand out” and “perform” well on interviews.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

by Christos G. Bampis , Chao Chen , Anush K. Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application

Smashing Magazine

How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application. How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application. Nirmalya Ghosh. 2021-11-26T12:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-26T14:19:22+00:00. Maintaining a large application is always a difficult task. It might have outdated dependencies which can cause maintainability issues. It can also have tests that are flaky and don’t inspire any confidence.

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Our investment in Canada – a new Region coming soon!

All Things Distributed

AWS plans to open a new infrastructure region in Canada - AWS Canada West (Calgary).

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Incident Review: Google Cloud Outage

DZone

Outages on the Internet always catch you by surprise, whether you are the end user or the Head of Site Reliability trying to keep a clear mind while you execute your incident playbook. As people in charge of ensuring reliable services for our customers, our normal experience of outages involves surfing a deluge of fire alarms and crisis calls as we work to solve the problem as quickly as we can.

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Automatic connection of logs and traces accelerates AI-driven cloud analytics

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Customers expect enterprises to deliver increasingly better, faster, and more reliable digital experiences. Cloud-native observability is a prerequisite for companies that need to meet these expectations. Observability enables a holistic approach to automation and BizDevOps collaboration for the optimization of applications and business outcomes.

Analytics 234
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How Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Each day, Uber moves millions of people around the world and delivers tens of millions of food and grocery orders. This generates a large number of financial transactions that need to be stored with provable completeness, consistency, and compliance. … The post How Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Why software testing needs explainable AI

TechBeacon Testing

Applications that use artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques present unique challenges to testers. These systems are largely black boxes that use multiple algorithms—sometimes hundreds of them—to process data in a series of layers and return a result.

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Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

Smashing Magazine

Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce. Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce. Ilya Grigorik. 2021-11-08T14:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-08T19:34:34+00:00. As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank.

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Announcing Cryostat 2.0: JDK Flight Recorder for Containers

InfoQ

Cryostat, a container-native JVM application developed by Red Hat, provides an API for monitoring and profiling Java containers using Java Flight Recorder (JFR). Cryostat brings JFR to container age allowing analysis and profiling of multiple JVMs directly from a central hub. By Andrea Messetti.

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Reverse Debugging - What You Should Know

DZone

Reverse debugging is a debugging system that makes it possible to stop code execution and move backward (and forward) in the code’s history to discover the cause of failure in a program. Reverse debugging involves remote debugging, debugging on the same machine, or debugging on a simulator. Not all debuggers are capable of reverse debugging it is a vital tool to have in your arsenal.

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Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? It’s essential to understand when something goes wrong along the application delivery chain so you can identify the root cause and correct it before it impacts your business.

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Fundamentals of Table Expressions, Part 13 – Inline Table-Valued Functions, Continued

SQL Performance

This is the thirteenth and last installment in a series about table expressions. This month I continue the discussion I started last month about inline table-valued functions (iTVFs). Last month I explained when SQL Server inlines iTVFs, it applies parameter embedding optimization by default. Parameter embedding means SQL Server replaces parameter references in the query with the literal constant values from the current execution, and then the code with the constants gets optimized.

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Latest Web Development Trends to Follow in 2022 & Beyond

Simform

The web development industry is growing rapidly and revolutionizing the way businesses interact. Hence, it’s become crucial for businesses to keep an eye on the latest technology trends in web development to stay ahead in this competitive market. Here, we will walk you through the list of the latest web development trends that can help businesses increase revenue and customer satisfaction.

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Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website

Smashing Magazine

Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website. John C Barstow. 2021-11-23T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-23T13:06:37+00:00. Dyslexia is perhaps the most common learning disorder in the world, affecting somewhere between 10–20% of the world’s population. It can cause difficulties with reading, writing, and spelling, though the degree of impairment varies widely — some people are barely affected while others require a great deal of extra support.

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KeyCDN Launches New POP in Mexico

KeyCDN

Hola Mexico! We've launched our new point of presence (POP) in Mexico City. The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. KeyCDN is always on the lookout for ways to minimize latency and accelerate asset delivery worldwide. With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience.

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All Hail Bug Reports: How We Reduced the Analysis Time of the User’s Project From 80 to 4 Hours

DZone

People often see work in support as something negative. Today we'll look at it from a different perspective. This article is about a real communication of 100+ messages, exceptions, the analysis that didn't complete in three days. Actually, bug reports are great If a bug report is adequately handled from both sides, it means that both the user and the software developer are interested in solving the problem.

Software 264
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Amplify PowerUP: From APM to Observability

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Amplify PowerUP, our half-yearly global event to update our partner community, covered a lot of ground including key Partner Program announcements, Q2 earnings and partner contribution, market growth and momentum, Dynatrace platform capabilities, and the partner services offering the platform powers. The theme for the event focused on ‘APM to Observability’, which we’ll recap shortly within this blog.

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SQL TOP statement performance tips

SQL Shack

In this article, we will discuss the performance details of the SQL TOP statement, and we will also work on a performance case study. Pre-requirement In this article, we will use the Adventureworks2019 sample database. At the same time, we will use the Create Enlarged AdventureWorks Tables script to obtain an enlarged version of this […].

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Top 50 Tech Startups in Austin to Watch Out For in 2022

Simform

Austin is recognized as one of the best top cities for tech in the world. It also contributes to a great entrepreneurial startup ecosystem. With this blog post, let's walk you through the top 50 attractive & emerging tech startups in 2022. Let's have a look! The post Top 50 Tech Startups in Austin to Watch Out For in 2022 appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%.

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Quality Engineering Discussions: 5 Questions with George Ukkuru

Testsigma

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. Over the course of two decades, he has helped Fortune 500 companies implement Agile testing practices. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. In this QnA, Ukkuru lays out the scope and depth of his experience without even trying.

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C# Errors by Example: Checking the DotNetNuke CMS

DZone

Today, we discuss C# code quality and a variety of errors by the example of CMS DotNetNuke. We're going to dig into its source code. You're going to need a cup of coffee. DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke is an open-source content management system (CMS) written mainly in C#. The source code is available on GitHub. The project is part of the.NET Foundation.

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What is digital experience?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. The experiences users have with your digital touchpoints create a lasting impression. In an increasingly online world, these digital experiences are often the most important interaction users have with your brand. Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders.

Mobile 229