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Socratic vs. Euclidean Forms of API Documentation

High Scalability

I was emailing a service about their documentation and while their doc was good, about one particularly tricky concept they told me that once you use it for a while, that’s when you’ll understand it. In other words: you’ll only understand it after you understand it. I didn’t like that response. I want documentation that takes me from an unproductive newbie to a somewhat functioning journeyperson.

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Dynatrace Managed is now certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux software

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. We’re very excited about this week’s a nnouncement from? Red Hat , one of our? technology alliance partners , that Dynatrace Managed is certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x distributions. For details, see the listing in the Red Hat Customer Portal. Dynatrace Managed thus joins? OneAgent ?and? OneAgent Operator ?in Red Hat certification. .

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Exploratory Testing: A Detailed Guide

DZone

What Is Exploratory Testing? In exploratory testing, testers check a system without a plan in mind to discover bugs that users may face when navigating a website or app. It tries to mimic the personal freedom and choices of individual end-users. It is a simultaneous process in which testers go through the software of their own accord to understand the quality of the user experience it provides.

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Meaningful availability

The Morning Paper

Meaningful availability , Hauer et al., NSDI’20. With thanks to Damien Mathieu for the recommendation. This very clearly written paper describes the Google G Suite team’s search for a meaningful availability metric: one that accurately reflected what their end users experienced, and that could be used by engineers to pinpoint issues and guide improvements. > A good availability metric should be meaningful, proportional, and actionable.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 28th, 2020

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: The Smithsonian has million of pieces of delicious open access content. I ate up this 3D representation of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. That's how important you are to the fate of the world. Need to understand the cloud? Know someone who does?

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Digital Business Analytics: Let’s get started!

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. We introduced Digital Business Analytics in part one as a way for our customers to tie business metrics to application performance and user experience, delivering unified insights into how these metrics influence business milestones and KPIs. Traditional APM-only solutions care about performance and errors, capturing only the metadata relevant to IT-centric analyses; transaction IDs, error codes, geography, and usernames are examples.

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SQL Server Always On Availability Groups Interview Questions & Answers

SQL Shack

In this article, we will discuss a number of interview questions that you could be asked about the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups feature when attending an interview for the SQL Server database administrator role. Being interviewed for a SQL Server Database Administrator position, and now interviewing candidates for that role, questions related to […].

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3 Key Performance Testing Metrics Every Tester Should Know

Abstracta

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. The post 3 Key Performance Testing Metrics Every Tester Should Know appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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Querying a GraphQL API in a React Web Application

The Polyglot Developer

GraphQL is becoming all the rage, what with being able to query an API like you can query a database. There are two aspects when it comes to GraphQL development, the first being around creating GraphQL APIs and the other around creating applications that can query those APIs. If you’ve been keeping up, you’re probably already familiar with my courses, Web Services for the Go Developer , and Web Services for the JavaScript Developer.

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. We’ve covered PageSpeed Insights in-depth , but there are some key differences between the two.

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Your technology architecture and engineering organization should coevolve as your startup grows

Abhishek Tiwari

The evolution of your technology architecture should depend on the size, culture, and skill set of your engineering organization. In fact, they should coevolve. There are no hard-and-fast rules to figure out interdependency between technology architecture and engineering organization but below is what I think can really work well for product startup. 1-10 Engineers Focus: Rapid product delivery to find mythical product market fit Architecture: a well designed 12-factor MVC app running securely o

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BlocklyJMX Review

Abstracta

Reviewing JMeter’s new online editor BlocklyJMX is a web-based alternative to JMeter for viewing and editing test plan files. If you aren’t familiar with JMeter, it’s an open. The post BlocklyJMX Review appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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Why use React? A case-by-case manual for your next application project.

Simform

Choosing the best front-end technology nowadays is a big deal. Today's web development era has witnessed quite a few technologies in the market, each designed to meet different needs. React is one such technology that has been utilized by almost each and every company. But why is that? What is Reactjs used for? What kind of projects can be built with React?

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Highlights from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020

O'Reilly

People from across the software architecture world came together in New York for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. The elephant in the architecture. Martin Fowler reveals, discusses, and vents about a very common and widely neglected architectural attribute. Watch “ The elephant in the architecture “ Where do great architectures come from?

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References, simply

Sutter's Mill

References are for parameter passing, including range- for. Sometimes they’re useful as local variables, but pointers or structured bindings are usually better. Any other use of references typically leads to endless design debates. This post is an attempt to shed light on this situation, and perhaps reduce some of the time spent on unresolved ongoing design debates in the C++ community.

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Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure

The Morning Paper

Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure , Li et al., NSDI’20. Modern software systems at scale are incredibly complex ever changing environments. Despite all the pre-deployment testing you might employ, this makes it really tough to change them with confidence. Thus it’s common to use some form of phased rollout, monitoring progress as you go, with the idea of rolling back a change if it looks like it’s causing pro

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Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance Considerations

SQL Performance

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Since then, many organizations have started migrating to Managed Instance for the benefits of a managed environment. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system.

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Nodejs vs React: Comparing Learning curve, Performance, Use-case

Simform

“What is better, Node js or React js? Which one should I prefer to build my web app development?” These are some commonly asked questions by many. This is why we’ve come up with this new post that’ll help you understand the in-depth comparison between these two powerful technologies. It also covers diverse parameters like learning curve, microservices, community support, app size & performance, and use cases to give you a clear standpoint.

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The elephant in the architecture

O'Reilly

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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How To Decide The Entry and Exit Criteria For Regression Testing

Testsigma

What is Regression Testing? Regression testing is the process of verifying that if a change is made in one component of the product, the other components of the product continue to behave like it was before. It is a means to ensure that change in one functionality of the product doesn’t result in unintentional changes in other functionalities of the product.

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A Day in the Life of a… Solution Consultant

Tasktop

Meet Matt Tilney, a Solution Consultant at Tasktop, and our only employee located in Australia! We spoke to Matt about his favourite Tasktop memory, which includes Rock Band, and what it’s like to work in a completely different timezone. . How do you start your day before work? The first thing to consider is that I not only work remotely geographically, but also in relation to time zones, which means my day starts after or at the end of most others.

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Introducing Axioms

Abhishek Tiwari

I am thrilled to announce the early availability of Axioms - a financial-grade identity and trust management platform. Axioms enables organizations to protect their apps, devices, and APIs against unauthorized and untrusted access using our fully-managed SaaS offering. We believe that identity and trust are two major blind spots in cybersecurity and we are on the mission to fix it using our standard-based platform assisted with the powerful built-in automation and machine learning smarts.

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Where do great architectures come from?

O'Reilly

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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Mobile App Usage Behavior Statistics 2020 (Updated)

Simform

The post Mobile App Usage Behavior Statistics 2020 (Updated) appeared first on Insights on Latest Software Technologies - Simform Blog.

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The #1 ServiceNow Integration Use Case for Enterprise Software Delivery Efficiency

Tasktop

Organizations rely heavily on ServiceNow for their IT operations and software delivery activities. But on its own, a single tool is never enough. Today’s enterprises need ServiceNow integrated tightly with the rest of their software delivery toolchain to eliminate the manual overhead that may be slowing down cross-functional collaboration and business value delivery. .

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Intellectual control

O'Reilly

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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Architecture.Next: Invalidating old axioms

O'Reilly

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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From the trenches: Rachel Laycock

O'Reilly

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.

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Sometimes I draw

O'Reilly

This is a keynote highlight from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2020. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event.