Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Reading time 4 min The CPDoS attack that was discovered in October 2019 and the corresponding attention paid to it within the technology sphere brought to light an issue many of us overlook: the boundaries of our web applications have expanded, and that has increased the number of systems and services that must be monitored and secured. Let’s dive into the specifics of the CPDoS attack , explore how it is just a transient example of a more fundamental issue , and discuss how you can protect your

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Using open source tools to stress test video streaming at scale In this post, I want to share something that we have been working on with BlazeMeter for. The post How to Run Video Streaming Performance Tests with the HLS Plugin for JMeter appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Tools and frameworks, just for you! In every web app, the frontend is the face of the application that is visible to users. It includes the graphical user interface, functionality, and usability of the site. If the front-end is not working properly, you will not be able to earn potential users for your website. That’s why performing frontend testing for your web app is very crucial.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

by Artem Shtatnov and Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan Almost a year ago we described our learnings from adopting GraphQL on the Netflix Marketing Tech team. We have a lot more to share since then! There are plenty of existing resources describing how to express a search query in GraphQL and paginate the results. This post looks at the other side of search: how to index data and make it searchable.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dynatrace news. Organizations seeking ways to capitalize on the cloud computing delivery model also look to shorten development cycles without sacrificing superior user experience. In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., SOSP’19. I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Abstract. This article is targeted to the users who wish to know the necessity of doing cross-browser automation testing for the web application. This article explains to us how Protractor works and how it automates for cross-browser testing. I assume you might have a basic knowledge of protractors. You may also like: Skyrocket Your Cross-Browser Testing With Minimal Effort.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Dynatrace news. With the increase in the adoption of cloud technologies, there’s now a huge demand for monitoring cloud-native applications, including monitoring both the cloud platform and the applications themselves. Many cloud providers offer built-in monitoring tools for transparency and easy management of resources, which begs the question “Why do I need add-on monitoring tools?

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song talks about why Bitcoin is a profound invention, the impact it’s already having on society, and its path to monetary relevance. Highlights from the interview include: In the physical world, we have centralized and decentralized scarcity—think numbered prints from artists (centralized) versus gold or salt or glass beads (decentralized).

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., SOSP’19. Ten years of hard-won lessons packed into just 17 pages (13 if you don’t count the references!) makes this paper extremely good value for your time. It’s also a fabulous example of recognising and challenging implicit assumptions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

by Artem Shtatnov and Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan Almost a year ago we described our learnings from adopting GraphQL on the Netflix Marketing Tech team. We have a lot more to share since then! There are plenty of existing resources describing how to express a search query in GraphQL and paginate the results. This post looks at the other side of search: how to index data and make it searchable.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Dynatrace news. Java. Added support for Oracle Hotspot JVM 13 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (x86), Solaris (x86), Windows (x86). Added support for Oracle Hotspot JVM 13 for Solaris (SPARC). Go. Added support for Go 1.13 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (x86), Windows (x86). PHP. Added support for PHP 7.4 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (x86), Windows (x86).

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Experts from across the software architecture world came together in Berlin for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. Cognitive biases in the architect’s life. Birgitta Boeckeler covers some of the cognitive biases that can trip up architects. Watch “ Cognitive biases in the architect’s life “ The three-headed dog: Architecture, process, structure.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We’ve extended our Image Processing service with a new feature: Watermark ! This new option allows to add an image on top of another image. It seamlessly integrates into our existing service. The image overlay process consists of 2 parts: the base image and the overlay image. The base image can still be modified with any image processing command.

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SQL Shack

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In this article, we will study how to recognize and resolve the SQL blocking chain by determining and troubleshooting the root cause. Every SQL Server database connection is represented by a unique Session ID (SPID) and is authenticated and authorized with a SQL login and appropriate access role. A SQL Server session is often called […].

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dynatrace news. Single sign-on (SSO) gives your employees the ability to log in just once with a set of credentials that enable them to access all corporate applications, websites, and data for which they have permission. In this way, SSO solves key problems for enterprises by providing greater security, compliance, as well as improved usability and employee satisfaction.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

People from across the cloud native and distributed systems worlds came together in Berlin for the O’Reilly Velocity Conference. Below you’ll find links to highlights from the event. My love letter to computer science is very short and I also forgot to mail it. James Mickens shares his concerns and frustrations with today’s technology.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Build A Seamless Spreadsheet Import Experience With The Help Of Flatfile.io. Build A Seamless Spreadsheet Import Experience With The Help Of Flatfile.io. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-11-05T12:00:59+02:00. 2019-11-05T12:08:26+00:00. (This is a sponsored post.) If you’ve ever attempted to build a CSV importer before, you know how frustrating it is to dedicate valuable engineering time to this feature, only to watch your customers struggle with it.

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PDC

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In part 1 of this post , we introduced the mpi4py module (MPI for Python) which provides an object-oriented interface for Python resembling the message passing interface (MPI) and enables Python programs to exploit multiple processors on multiple compute nodes. The mpi4py module provides methods for communicating various types of Python objects in different ways.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dynatrace news. Imagine that your critical services have been running for weeks without incident when suddenly your Tomcat cluster is stuck and your service completely fails. This situation represents an Ops team’s worst nightmare. In such a situation, the Ops team must react quickly to find the root cause of the service outage and figure out how best to remediate the problem.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The inflection point hypothesis: a principled debugging approach for locating the root cause of a failure Zhang et al., SOSP’19. It’s been a while since we looked a debugging and troubleshooting on The Morning Paper (here’s a sample of earlier posts on the topic ). Today’s paper introduces a root cause of failure detector for those hard-to-pin-down bugs.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I’ve joined SpeedCurve! I’m thrilled to share this news and have never been more excited about a career change than I am today. I’ve known this cast of characters for a while and am humbled that they have brought me onto the team. As Tammy put it when she joined, if this crew invited you to work with them, “what would you say?

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CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here’s a wonderful reminder from Stephanie Stimac about web performance. She writes about a recent experience of moving to an area with an unreliable network and how this caused problems for her as she tried to figure out what was happening during a power blackout: Assuming all of your customers are living the same life, with the same privilege, with the same access to fast internet and data is the quickest way to ensure you’re excluding some of them and not providing the same level of service t

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dynatrace news. Organizations seeking ways to capitalize on the cloud computing delivery model also look to shorten development cycles without sacrificing superior user experience. In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The CPDoS attack that was discovered in October 2019 and the corresponding attention paid to it within the technology sphere brought to light an issue many of us overlook: the boundaries of our web applications have expanded, and that has increased the number of systems and services that must be. The post CPDoS Attacks: Why Global Monitoring Is Essential for Web Performance Management appeared first on Production.

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Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I’ve written about the paradox of the Big Shift – the forces reshaping our global economy are simultaneously creating exponentially expanding opportunity and mounting performance pressure. Here’s the challenge. In a world of mounting performance pressure, we have a natural human tendency to shrink our horizons. We focus only on the short-term. We focus only on ourselves.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hundreds of computer architects convened in the beautiful city of Columbus, Ohio to celebrate the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Led by general chairs Radu Teodorescu and DK Panda from The Ohio State University, Columbus welcomed visitors from all over the world with lovely weather, friendly volunteers, and two wonderful excursions to world-renowned Center of Science and Industry (COSI) and National Museum of the US Air Force.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Dynatrace news. For full-stack monitoring, you need 360-degree visibility from each customer’s initial interaction with your applications, through the entire request call sequence, down to containers, infrastructure, and cloud. To achieve this, you need an open platform that allows you to seamlessly ingest new sources of data and events. Seamlessly integrate custom metrics and create new value on top of Dynatrace.

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Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The CPDoS attack that was discovered in October 2019 and the corresponding attention paid to it within the technology sphere brought to light an issue many of us overlook: the boundaries of our web applications have expanded, and that has increased the number of systems and services that must be. The post CPDoS Attacks: Why Global Monitoring Is Essential for Web Performance Management appeared first on Production.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It’s been just over a week since this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas came to a close. And while we’re happy to be away from the artificial air that’s continuously pumped out at The Cosmopolitan, we will miss the breath of fresh air that many attendees and speakers brought to the DevOps discussion. . The third and final day of the conference saw our CEO and founder, Dr.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Experts explore new trends, tools, and techniques in software architecture. Continue reading Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace, Pivotal and VMware have been working together since the emergence of modern cloud technologies. In fact, we’ve been establishing a solid framework for deployment in these environments, with Dynatrace full-stack monitoring for Pivotal including our latest immutable BOSH add-on, and Dynatrace’s operator in Kubernetes monitoring. .

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

They always say all good things come to an end, but we’re here to prove that wrong. The beloved TaskTalks podcast is back, and it’s better than ever! This time around we want to show you a bit more about who we are. Across this new series, we’ll be introducing our amazing Tasktopians to you to provide insight into the daily lives of the people behind the products you love.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Dynatrace news. We’ve been marketing AI as a key differentiator for nearly five years at Dynatrace. Problem is, these days everyone else is too – making it even harder to figure out if your message is getting through. And, to make matters worse, the technical audience we market to are skeptical of marketing jargon, which means, no matter what us marketers say – they probably won’t believe it anyway.

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