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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For Sep 18th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! I can't wait for the duel. Just don't shoot into the air. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? Of course you do. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 167 mostly 5 star reviews.

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What is Prometheus and Why Should You Use It?

DZone

Prometheus is one of many open-source projects managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is monitoring software that integrates with a wide range of systems natively or through the use of plugins. It is considered the default monitoring solution for the popular Kubernetes container orchestration engine, another CNCF hosted project.

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Gain enterprise-level security with easy LDAP authentication in Dynatrace Managed

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. With role-based access control for large global teams, automatic enterprise-wide deployment and full-stack coverage across infrastructure, cloud platforms, and applications, Dynatrace is built for the most demanding enterprise environments. Our largest customers have hundreds of Dynatrace users working together from around the world.

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MongoDB SSL with self-signed certificates in C#

Scalegrid

When deploying MongoDB in production, it is strongly recommended that you use an SSL-enabled geo-distributed replica-set configuration for maximum security and availability. ScaleGrid provides you two options for setting up SSL. One option is purchasing your own CA-signed SSL certificates and configuring them on the MongoDB server. If your application connects to the production database over a public network, do reach out to support@scalegrid.io to learn more about this.

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Moving HPC to the Cloud: A Guide for 2020

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Limor Maayan-Wainstein , a senior technical writer with 10 years of experience writing about cybersecurity, big data, cloud computing, web development, and more. High performance computing (HPC) enables you to solve complex problems which cannot be solved by regular computing. Traditionally, HPC solutions provided mainly supercomputers.

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Analytics at Netflix: Who we are and what we do

The Netflix TechBlog

Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do An Introduction to Analytics and Visualization Engineering at Netflix by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy Explained: Season 1 (Photo Credit: Netflix) Across nearly every industry, there is recognition that data analytics is key to driving informed business decision-making. But there is far less agreement on what that term “data analytics” actually means?

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Dynatrace achieves AWS Outposts Ready designation

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner, Dynatrace easily integrates with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. In addition to automatic full-stack monitoring, Dynatrace provides comprehensive support for all AWS services that publish metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing advanced observability for dynamic hybrid clouds.

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Website or Mobile User Experience Design – Why It Matters

DZone

When designing a digital presence, whether it is a website or a mobile app, attractive graphics and engaging content are not the only things that matter. One aspect of the web and app design that many designers still overlook is the need for good user experience design. But, what exactly is user experience design (UX Design), and why does it matter so much?

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley. Photo from a team curling offsite?

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A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Configuration options of the tech stack continue to increase in scope and complexity, with dependencies that have become unpredictable.

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content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance

CSS - Tricks

Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin: […] you can use another CSS property called content-visibility to apply the needed containment automatically. content-visibility ensures that you get the largest performance gains the browser can provide with minimal effort from you as a developer. The content-visibility property accepts several values, but auto is the one that provides immediate performance improvements.

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Parallel Testing With Robot Framework

DZone

Did you ever encounter the problem that your regression test execution time has become so large, that you needed to wait for hours in order to get the results? This is where Pabot comes to the rescue! Pabot enables parallel test execution for your Robot Framework tests. Let’s see how this works! 1. Introduction. This post is the last in a series about Robot Framework, an automation test framework.

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Sponsored Post: IP2Location, Ipdata, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna

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. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart.

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Who will watch the watchers? Extended infrastructure observability for WSO2 API Manager

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. The technology race never stops. Those who lead it gain business advantage and market share. As in any race, sustainable advantage requires extensive preparation and attention to what’s under the hood. It’s cliched to say that cloud adoption has changed everything in this race, but a full understanding of the intricacies of cloud-native applications is still rare.

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Visualize Data Structures in VSCode

Addy Osmani

VSCode Debug Visualizer is a VSCode extension that allows you to visualize data structures in your editor

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Testing PowerShell Code With Pester — Octopus Deploy

DZone

When you're working with any code, whether it's automation or software code, it should be treated the same way. After-all, functions are still functions and variables are still variables. One of the many things that don't come up as often when you're automating vs when you're building application code is testing. Unit testing and mock testing are extremely important in scripting and automation.

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Backup compression in TDE enabled databases in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In the previous article, Transparent Data Encryption for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we discussed enabling TDE for the existing database in AG. In this article, we will explore options for a compressed backup of a TDE database. Introduction TDE protects the physical database, log, backup files using the IO encryptions. It uses the […].

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Dynatrace joins ServiceNow Service Graph Connector Program

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Managing highly dynamic, microservices-based environments with a CMDB database can be challenging. IT operations teams can struggle just to get full visibility into what’s happening, let alone to pinpoint the root causes of problems. This is why we are excited to announce that Dynatrace has joined ServiceNow’s Service Graph Connector Program.

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Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

All Things Distributed

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. The disadvantage of this is that there is no “how to” guide for us—a lot is unknown. However, the advantage is that when we solve a new problem, it’s an opportunity to reinvent our services and create new benefits for our customers.

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Better Tests Names Using JUnit's Display Name Generators

DZone

Writing unit tests can be challenging, but there is one thing that can get you on the right track — the test name. If you manage to give your test a good name — you will write a good test.

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The dangers of inadequate localization testing

TechBeacon Testing

Today, many companies aim to succeed globally, so they can achieve wider brand recognition, increased ROI, and exponential growth.

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Impact of dropping a login in the active directory tied to SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

This article explores the impact of dropping a login in the active directory if that owns a HADR endpoint and SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. It is the 23rd article in the SQL Server Always On Availability Group. Introduction Database security is a critical aspect, and it protects you from compromising integrity, availability, and […].

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Aligning superhuman AI with human behaviour: chess as a model system

The Morning Paper

Aligning superhuman AI with human behavior: chess as a model system , McIlroy-Young et al., KDD’20. It’s been a while, but it’s time to start reading CS papers again! We’ll ease back into it with one or two papers a week for a few weeks, building back up to something like 3 papers a week at steady state. How human-like is superhuman AI?

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Finding and Fixing Django N+1 Problems

DZone

The Django Python framework allows people to build websites extremely fast. One of its best features is the Object-relational mapper (ORM), which allows you to make queries to the database without having to write any SQL. Django will allow you to write your queries in Python and then it will try to turn those statements into efficient SQL. Most of the time the ORM creates the SQL flawlessly, but sometimes the results are less than ideal.

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Optimizing CSS for faster page loads

CSS - Tricks

A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It’s a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge reason: Any time [the browser] encounters any external resource (CSS, JS, images, etc.) it will assign it a download priority and initiate its download. Priorities are important because some resources are critical to render a page (eg. main stylesheet and JS files) while others may be less important (like images or stylesheets for othe

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Manticore search: a continuation of the Sphinx search engine

SQL Shack

In this article, we will be talking about Manticore Search, which is an open-source search engine first released in 2017 as a fork of the Sphinx search engine. We will try to describe this search engine briefly, mention some of its differences from the Sphinx search engine, and we will provide a step-by-step guide on […].

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Modern Codeless Test Automation: Myths And Facts

Testsigma

With the advancement in technology together with the advent of Agile and DevOps, the software industry is witnessing many changes. Testing, being the part of the software arena, is also advancing to great new heights. From manual testing to record-and-playback tools, then to automation testing and now to codeless test automation, we have traversed a long path.

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Accept Text Input from Users in a Phaser Game

The Polyglot Developer

When you create a game, you may find yourself needing to accept keyboard input from the user. I’m not talking about using the keyboard to control your player, but instead to accept text from the keyboard to be used as a username or for the in-game chat. If you’ve been keeping up with the Phaser content releasing on the blog, you might remember the tutorial titled, Creating a Multiplayer Drawing Game with Phaser and MongoDB.

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Enhancements in NServiceBus Hosting

Particular Software

The.NET Generic Host has become the de facto method of hosting applications built on.NET Core. To support the generic host, we released the NServiceBus.Extensions.Hosting package to make it simple to host NServiceBus within a.NET Core process or ASP. NET Core web application using the.UseNServiceBus(…) extension method. While a massive improvement for easily hosting NServiceBus in a.NET Core process, a few rough edges remained.

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How It Works: Bulk Insert (BCP.exe) – Injecting a Sort Operation

SQL Server According to Bob

How It Works: Bulk Insert (BCP.exe) ​​ – Injecting a Sort Operation I ran across an interesting issue this week related to the use of Bulk Insert/BCP and sorting. The customer reported that they could not BCP into a table using “keepidentity” and after more debugging I found that “keepidentity” was not the ​​ issue but ​​ the issue ​​ was the addition of a ​​ clustered ​​ index.

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