DZone
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Performance engineering at its finest. As the world becomes more decidedly digital, the demand for apps has skyrocketed like never before. " There's an app for that " is not just a popular saying. It is an accurate depiction of how people live their lives.
CSS - Tricks
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Because we know that all people with battery-powered devices are constantly concerned about their battery levels, and that websites are significant consumers of that battery power, we should probably think about this stuff a lot more than we do. I'd expect the browser itself to be our main ally here, doing smart things to reduce power consumption without us developers needing to think too much about it.
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SQL Performance
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download.
Scalegrid
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. In this post, we discuss the top 5 GUI tools for administering your PostgreSQL deployments. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Dynatrace news. The path to Autonomous Cloud Management (ACM) and NoOps is a transformational journey that reaches all parts of an organization. It fundamentally changes how teams and tools work together with a common goal: deliver software faster, more frequently and with a higher degree of quality. If you want to read more about what ACM is and how it came to be, please check my other blog post where I talk about the concepts and Dynatrace’s own journey.
DZone
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
There are many types of software testing that you can use to improve your products. How Much of a Company's Budget Is Spent on Quality Assurance and Testing? A whopping 39% globally this year. That means software testing spending is up 13% from 2017. More and more companies are realizing that it’s not enough to build good software, it needs to be rigorously examined, benchmarked, and verified.
Simform
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
How do you build Scalable Web Apps that users not only love but come over & over again? We’ve pulled together tips from 25+ experts all over the web so that you can make sure they’re using the best of Web Scalability tips without failure. Here's what some of them had to say. The post 25 Experts Share Their Tips for building Scalable Web Application appeared first on Insights on Latest Software Technologies - Simform Blog.
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Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Dynatrace news. Reporting deltas (i.e, comparing differences) between sets of timeframes or other logical units, is a valuable practice for evaluating business success. To do this effectively, it’s essential that you be able to look at all cohorts at once so that you can fully understand the complete picture. With the release of Dynatrace 1.177, you can now do exactly this—our most recent dashboarding update provides a powerful comparison feature for all available dashboard tiles.
DZone
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Soon your automation will be running at top speed! When it comes to automated website testing, one extremely important parameter is the intellect gathered from the output of your automation test execution i.e. the number of bugs reported, percentage of pass/failed test cases, test coverage, etc. If there are frequent releases in your project, the throughput achieved via testing can be adversely affected if the tests are performed frequently.
CSS - Tricks
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Scott Jehl has written this wonderful piece about how 5G is on the horizon and how it could cause problems for users. But first, he starts by talking about the overwhelming positive news about it: [.] as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average.
The Polyglot Developer
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
I’m pleased to announce that the 31st episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, featuring Adrienne Tacke and Alex Ziskind , has published to all of the popular podcast networks. This episode, titled Developer Education through Books, Video Courses, and Conferences , shares the personal stories of three developers when it comes to how they learn and expand their skill arsenal, as well as how they use their knowledge to produce content for other developers to consume in the format of books
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Dynatrace news. Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights. But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self
DZone
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Another activity that requires strategy. Regression Testing. Regression testing is a process that continues throughout the life cycle of an application. When we talk about regression testing, our vision should ideally be focused on the long term goals that take into account the various aspects of software application sustenance. Each time a new feature is developed, existing feature improved or any UI updates made, there is a need to perform a regression test to ensure that the changes do not im
SQL Shack
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
In this article, we will discuss a few very common questions that you may be asked during a SQL Server administrator or developer technical job interview. Q1: What is a SQL Server Execution Plan? SQL Server Execution Plan is a binary representation of the steps that are followed by the SQL Server Engine to execute the query. […].
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Updating graph databases with Cypher Green et al., VLDB’19. This is the story of a great collaboration between academia, industry, and users of the Cypher graph querying language as created by Neo4j. Beyond Neo4j, Cypher is also supported in SAP HANA Graph, RedisGraph, Agnes Graph, and Memgraph. Cypher for Apache Spark , and Cypher over Gremlin projects are also both available in open source.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Dynatrace news. The Dynatrace LATAM team were delighted to host the third successful Partner Summit in Medellín, Colombia for more than 80 partners from 7 different countries. At the Partner Awards dinner, we recognized and celebrated the contribution and success of all our LATAM partners. It was quite the celebration! In keeping with the theme of Autonomous Cloud, we awarded special recognition to a select group of partners who are building practices and services offerings to help enterprises a
DZone
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
How does this Peak Perform? Running a PHP application offers a wholly unique experience compared to running applications in other programming languages like Java or Golang. In most languages, you have to start your application in order to respond to a client request; whereas, with PHP, you have a simple “.php” file that sits quietly until it is invoked by a top-level web server like Nginx+PHP-FPM or Apache mod_php.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. These insightful videos will provide you with information from industry.
SQL Shack
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
In the previous article, I gave an overview of Execute SQL Task in SSIS and we illustrated some of the differences between writing an expression to evaluate SqlStatementSource property and writing this expression within a variable and change the Execute SQL Task Source Type to variable. In this article, I will describe the difference between […].
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Dynatrace news. As you probably know, Dynatrace is the leading Software Intelligence Platform, focused on web-scale cloud monitoring. But did you know that Dynatrace offers multiple deployment models to fulfill your requirements? As a Sr. Federal Sales Engineer, I often find myself explaining to government customers that Dynatrace provides Software Intelligence in your data center or on-prem cloud environment, monitoring all your mission-critical systems and bringing automatic, context-aware AI
DZone
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Time is money , especially in the age of the Internet. In fact, users decide within 8 seconds if they're going to continue using your service. Frequent lags can destroy your reputation. If you have a serverless architecture , cold starts can cause these lags.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. These insightful videos will provide you with information from industry insiders that you can use to plan for upcoming events, start conversations, and make an impact in your own organi
Percona Community
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
It’s all about MongoDB® 4.2 this time. MongoDB 4.2 released like a month ago (still newborn) and I am going to cover what’s new in three different areas: sharding, indexing, and the aggregation framework. I can promise you this, there are a lot of new features and improvements in MongoDB 4.2 and I am thrilled to present those to you. Join me at Percona Live Europe, and discover how distributed transactions, wildcard indexes and materialized views (plus many other new features) actual
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., VLDB’19. We haven’t covered a blockchain paper on The Morning Paper for a while, and today’s choice won the best paper award at VLDB’19. The goal here is to enable smart contracts to be written in which the contract logic depends on the history, or provenance of its inputs.
Tasktop
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
The Bifurcation of Security. In recent years, we’re seeing a clear split within the security community. There’s the “traditional” enterprise security focused on auditable controls, segregation of duties, approvals, change management, etc. These traditional controls are well-aligned with the waterfall model, but when applied to Agile software delivery organizations, a disaster inevitably occurs.
TechBeacon Testing
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Arranging the playing cards in a deck to be in one's favor is called "stacking the deck." Outside of card playing, people use the term more generally to mean arranging a situation to increase your chances of a favorable outcome.
Percona Community
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
In the last few years there have been several examples of major service problems affecting businesses data: outages causing data inconsistencies; unavailability or data loss, and worldwide cyberattacks encrypting your files and asking for a ransom. Database-related incidents are a very common industry issue- even if the root cause is not the database system itself.
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. There were so many interesting papers at the conference this year though that I haven’t been able to cover nearly as many as I would like. So today’s post is a short summary of things that caught my eye that I haven’t covered so far.
Tasktop
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Digital transformations typically demand major shifts in thinking, processes and behavior across the organization. It’s rarely, if ever, easy – especially when it comes to scaling and sustaining the transformation. Inevitably there will be a cultural shift, especially when you consider all the moving parts: the software delivery teams, the product owners, the multiple business lines.
TechBeacon Testing
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Regression testing should be shared, either within the delivery team as a whole or between development and QA. But in too many companies, this testing is still seen as primarily QA’s problem.
Simform
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Choosing whether Angular, Vue or React is a popular debate between project owners and tech CTOs. However, the choice of a framework largely depends on timeline, project size and team size. Project owners should ask themselves few questions before deciding on a particular tech stack. The post React vs Vue – The CTOs and Project Managers guide to choose the right framework appeared first on Insights on Latest Software Technologies - Simform Blog.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. These insightful videos will provide you with information from industry.
Particular Software
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Multi-tenant systems are a popular way to use the same codebase to provide services to different customers while minimizing the effect they have on each other. In a distributed message-based system you need to partition customer information and segregate messages from different customers as well. Additionally, you have to make sure different system components are tenant-aware.
TechBeacon Testing
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Serverless technologies can go a long way toward helping organizations with certain application needs avoid the complexity of infrastructure management. You can just throw code at the cloud and have an application. But implementing serverless apps has consequences.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. Here’s what we discussed so far: In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization. In Part 2 we looked at how you can set up an automated response to full disk errors and thereby prevent your services from going down.
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: What could be simpler? ( duckbillgroup ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd love your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 54 mostly 5 star reviews (125 on Goodreads ). They'll learn a lot and likely add you to their will.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Dynatrace news. Over the last few weeks, the Dynatrace team from across the Asia-Pacific region has been on the road as part of the exhilarating Dynatrace PerformGo! World Tour. For the first time this year, we proudly hosted Partner Summit across the Australia & New Zealand, ASEAN and Greater China regions, and welcomed our very own Michael Allen, VP, Worldwide Partners, to the region.
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