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How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. Independent services allow for evolving at different paces and scaling independently. Yet they add complexity for use cases that span multiple services. Rather than exposing 100s of microservices to UI developers, Netflix offers a unified API aggregation layer at the edge.

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Accelerate transformation with automated observability for Google Cloud Platform

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. As a leader in cloud infrastructure and platform services , the Google Cloud Platform is fast becoming an integral part of many enterprises’ cloud strategies. At Dynatrace, we’re seeing this adoption within our customer base, which is driven largely by the increase in Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects. However, as businesses migrate to the Google Cloud Platform, they’re faced with even more complex, distributed environments that are inherently diffic

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6 of the Best API Testing Tools in the Market

DZone

API test is a significant part of a successful Continuous Integration/ DevOps practice. As per Google Trends , the interest in Web/ API services tests has been progressively growing over the few decades. According to SmartBear research over 3,372 software professionals in API test over 2019, 91 percent of participants either presently have, or thinking to have a formal API test procedure in place in the coming future.

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21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon Testing

It's a strange time. We work from home. Political messages have invaded our social media. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.

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Virtual consensus in Delos

The Morning Paper

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. ( Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. Before we dive into this paper, if you click on the link above and then download and open up the paper pdf you might notice the familiar red/orange splash of USENIX, and appreciate the fully open access. USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events.

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Increased focus for your teams with fine-grained access control for your Prometheus, StatsD, and Telegraf metrics

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace is unique amongst its competitors in that it keeps the largest of large-scale enterprise landscapes foremost in mind. Within such large environments, you want to control who sees what information. This is important both for maintaining team focus but also for security and regulatory concerns. This is why we introduced management zones some time ago.

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An In-Depth Explanation of Code Complexity

DZone

It's no secret code is a complicated thing to write, debug, and maintain which is necessary for high software quality. Moreover, high code complexity brings with it a higher level of code defects, making the code costlier to maintain. So, by reducing code complexity, we can reduce the number of bugs and defects, along with its lifetime cost. What exactly is complex code?

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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 8 – CTEs, optimization considerations continued

SQL Performance

This article is the eighth part in a series about table expressions. So far I provided a background to table expressions, covered both the logical and optimization aspects of derived tables, the logical aspects of CTEs, and some of the optimization aspects of CTEs. This month I continue the coverage of optimization aspects of CTEs, specifically addressing how multiple CTE references are handled.

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Further improved handling and reliability of OneAgent deployments

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. OneAgents can be deployed via a single command execution or a double-click. Deployment performs the whole rollout, instrumentation, configuration, connection, and automatic detection of monitored entities in your environment.

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Contract Testing Strategy: Producer-Driven or Consumer-Driven

DZone

In a previous post , we saw how new needs arise in the field of testing derived from the evolution of application architectures. We talked about how over the years we have gone from developing applications based on a monolithic architecture to applications based on (micro) services. Where before we had centralized tests in a single application, we now have them divided between several, so we have to ensure that each of them is tested independently and securely.

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Top 10 Twilio Alternatives: A Guide to Choose Communication APIs for your Project

Simform

Twilio is a market leader in the communication space, but it is not perfect and has issues around technicalities. Here, we explore the ten top Twilio alternatives for the communication needs of your business. The post Top 10 Twilio Alternatives: A Guide to Choose Communication APIs for your Project appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Custom policies for AG dashboards of SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 35th article in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we will implement a custom policy for monitoring AG groups. Introduction The previous article, The Hub and Spoke model of Policy-based Management for SQL Server Always On Availability Group explores the following topics: Policy-Based Management (PBM) components AG replica health model Explore PBM policy […].

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Code-level observability for Flutter apps drives great user experience

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. If you want to use the Google UI toolkit to build natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase?, Flutter offers a mobile development model that allows you to do just that. Today, the production apps of many big companies use Flutter, which has a steadily growing community of developers. However, with the ever-expanding number of device types, device resolutions, and third-party resources, it’s challenging to ensure that your app works p

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Quality Sense Podcast: Julio de Lima – Machine Learning to Understand Performance Testing Results

Abstracta

Júlio explains a machine learning algorithm to reduce the scope of load testing and get meaningful analysis from your data faster In this Quality Sense episode, Fede has. The post Quality Sense Podcast: Julio de Lima – Machine Learning to Understand Performance Testing Results appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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Top 7 Test Automation Challenges To Look Out For

Testsigma

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Automation works great, especially in case of smoke and regression tests and helps the QA teams to easily create and execute test cases that are complex in nature. Though automation can act as a power booster for your product pipeline of development projects, there are certain pitfalls in automation which slow down the automation pipelines if not tackled upfront.

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The Hub and Spoke model of policy-based management for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 34th article on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we will explore policy-based management features for the AG’s. Introduction to policy-based management Policy-Based Management feature allows database professional in defining the best practices, standards for SQL Server and database related configurations. It is available from SQL Server 2008 onwards.

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OneAgent release notes version 1.205

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Rollout start 10 November 2020. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. 1.187. 1.181. Java. Added support for OkHttp 4.4.x, 4.5.x, 4.6.x, 4.7.x, 4.8.x, 4.9.x. Current support changes. Current OneAgent support changes. OneAgent 1.205 will be the last OneAgent version that supports the following technologies.

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Incremental Migrations

Addy Osmani

Incremental migrations are excellent for updating large legacy projects. Migrate a small piece at a time with lower risk then gradually do the rest.

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Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)

Sutter's Mill

On Monday, the ISO C++ committee completed its final full-committee (plenary) meeting of 2020 and adopted the first changes to the C++23 working draft, including a few new features. This was a first in several ways: It was our first-ever virtual plenary, held online via Zoom. It was also our first-ever plenary meeting that wasn’t held at the end of a long around-the-clock week of intensive subgroup meetings; instead, it was held at the end of nearly nine months of virtual subgroup meetings.

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Organising Large Miro Boards For Remote Workshops

Strategic Tech

Back in the summer I shared some of the techniques I’d been using to reimagine my in-person architecture workshops as remote digital offerings with Miro. I’ve learned a few more tricks since then which I think are worth sharing. My typical workshops usually range from 2 half days to 6 half days in duration spread over the course of 1–2 weeks. They’re a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises.

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Interacting with Open Source for HammerDB Code and Documentation

HammerDB

So the HammerDB project is open source. That shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. When you install it you accept the license agreement and once installed there is a file called LICENSE headed GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 – so you know that the code is open source under GPLv3. It is rare these days for people downloading and using open source not to have awareness of open source etiquette and responsibilities.

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Monitoring Serverless Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Serverless. It’s likely you’ve already come across this term somewhere, but what exactly does it mean? Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others.

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Automatic Call Distribution System: How to Leverage it for a Contact Center?

Simform

Businesses in the U.S. lose an estimated $62 billion every year due to bad customer experiences. The primary reason being, customers abandon brands after negative experiences. In fact, research shows that about 33% of Americans switch companies after a single instance of poor service. This constant shift of customers affects sales and brand value as a whole.

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New Product Release: Tasktop Hub 20.4 – Artifact Unions, Micro Focus/Octane Use Case, Configuration History, Daimler AG Connector

Tasktop

Tasktop’s latest product release from its Value Stream Management platform —Tasktop Hub 20.4—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: Artifact unions. Test Management use case between Micro Focus ALM and ALM Octane. Configuration history. New connector for Daimler/Mercedes-Benz AG’s new defect and test management system.

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Svelte vs Vue- A Comparison Defining two Modern Frameworks

Simform

You must have familiarity with Svelte and Vue if you often get to work with frontend developers for client-side web app development. Though Svelte is a new to the tribe, it eliminates the need to virtually represent Javascript objects and then display it in the user interface. It generates an intelligent code that interprets Javascript in the runtime and saves the extra time of loading.

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On-premise vs Cloud-based call Centers Comparison 2020

Simform

When any business decides to address their huge customer base, their first action of agenda is to establish a call center. With the changing nature of information and technology, this decision divides business owners into two alternatives – (i) a physical call center, i.e., an on-premise call center, and (ii) a cloud-based call center. It may seem difficult for startups to incorporate modern concepts such as chatbots, cloud software, API integrations in call centers, but that’s really not the ca

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Ember vs Vue Comparison: Which is Better?

Simform

Progress web applications (PWAs) and Single Page Applications (SPAs) are on-demand today when it comes to web apps. Amongst the framework that can be used for web app development, Ember and Vue have been growing faster than before. In this article, we will explore every crucial detail of the comparison between both the frameworks. The post Ember vs Vue Comparison: Which is Better?

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23k Listens and Counting – Celebrating 20 Episodes of the Project to Product Podcast: Mik + One

Tasktop

09This time last year, in November 2019, and a year after the official publication of Project to Product , the best-selling book by Tasktop founder & CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten, internal conversations began within Tasktop about launching a new podcast featuring Mik and industry leaders. With no one on the marketing team with previous podcast experience and expertise, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a podcast producer, and spearheading this new project.

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Ember vs Vue: Which is Better? (Comparison)

Simform

Progress web applications (PWAs) and Single Page Applications (SPAs) are on-demand today when it comes to web apps. Amongst the framework that can be used for web app development, Ember and Vue have been growing faster than before. In this article, we will explore every crucial detail of the comparison between both the frameworks. The post Ember vs Vue: Which is Better?

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On-premise vs Cloud-based call Centers Comparison 2020

Simform

The post On-premise vs Cloud-based call Centers Comparison 2020 appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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