Sat.Nov 13, 2021 - Fri.Nov 19, 2021

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Business observability and customer experience: A competitive edge for financial services

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the financial services industry had to adapt quickly, as long-anticipated shifts in customer preferences—from branch offices and bankers to websites and apps – suddenly became the new normal. At the same time, deregulation fuels massive investments in fintech startups and opens doors for tech giants to point their data-centric innovation engines towards financial services.

FinTech 272
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Reverse Debugging - What You Should Know

DZone

Reverse debugging is a debugging system that makes it possible to stop code execution and move backward (and forward) in the code’s history to discover the cause of failure in a program. Reverse debugging involves remote debugging, debugging on the same machine, or debugging on a simulator. Not all debuggers are capable of reverse debugging it is a vital tool to have in your arsenal.

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Building confidence in a decision

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , Michael Lindon , and Colin McFarland This is the fifth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Part 3 (False positives and statistical significance), and Part 4 (False negatives and power).

Metrics 209
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Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – Where speed meets consistency

All Things Distributed

We dive into the design of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a strongly-consistent, Redis-compatible, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance.

Speed 173
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Automatic connection of logs and traces accelerates AI-driven cloud analytics

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Customers expect enterprises to deliver increasingly better, faster, and more reliable digital experiences. Cloud-native observability is a prerequisite for companies that need to meet these expectations. Observability enables a holistic approach to automation and BizDevOps collaboration for the optimization of applications and business outcomes.

Analytics 234
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All Hail Bug Reports: How We Reduced the Analysis Time of the User’s Project From 80 to 4 Hours

DZone

People often see work in support as something negative. Today we'll look at it from a different perspective. This article is about a real communication of 100+ messages, exceptions, the analysis that didn't complete in three days. Actually, bug reports are great If a bug report is adequately handled from both sides, it means that both the user and the software developer are interested in solving the problem.

Software 264
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A Guide To Modern CSS Colors

Smashing Magazine

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. Michelle Barker. 2021-11-17T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-17T16:37:20+00:00. There’s more to color on the web than meets the eye, and it’s about to get a lot more interesting! Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.

Energy 145

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What is digital experience?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. The experiences users have with your digital touchpoints create a lasting impression. In an increasingly online world, these digital experiences are often the most important interaction users have with your brand. Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders.

Mobile 229
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11 Core Reasons Why Software Testing Has a Better Future than Development

DZone

Even though there is a long-running debate on which one amongst these two holds a better future, it seems that tests hold great possibilities. There has been always been a conflict between the two prevailing roads in software science – software tests and software development. Persons. are time and again left confused while choosing either of them for their profession.

Software 246
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Quality Engineering Discussions: 5 Questions with George Ukkuru

Testsigma

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. Over the course of two decades, he has helped Fortune 500 companies implement Agile testing practices. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. In this QnA, Ukkuru lays out the scope and depth of his experience without even trying.

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Top Startups to Watch in LA Shaping the Next Wave of Innovation in 2022

Simform

Los Angeles is the fourth-best startup ecosystem globally and is home to many thriving, young startups that have made an impact on the city’s tech scene and various industries. This blog introduces you to 50 exciting startups in LA that are poised for a promising future. The post Top Startups to Watch in LA Shaping the Next Wave of Innovation in 2022 appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Why log monitoring and log analytics matter in a hyperscale world

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. In fact, the global log management market is expected to grow from 1.9 billion in 2020 to $4.1 billion by 2026 according to numerous market research reports.

Analytics 222
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Test Case Vs. Test Scenario

DZone

Test Case. A test case is a set of activities that are carried out to verify the functionality of a certain component or feature of your product application. A test case is a set of test steps, test information, preconditions, and postconditions built for specific test cases to ensure that all prerequisites are met. It's a collection of circumstances or elements.

Testing 246
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Testing to Improve Flow Means Happier Teams

Tasktop

There are many ways to assess the perceived viability or potential effectiveness of a proposed experiment. Teams can determine the options to improve flow, but it may not be clear what aspects of their work to address. While it’s best to start and get feedback as quickly as possible, a lightweight test may shine a light on one or more options to start with.

Testing 98
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SRE Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

Dotcom-Montior

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.230

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. General. Reduce Elasticsearch backup snapshots retention to 5 days. Old snapshots will be automatically removed after the upgrade. Problems API v2 now includes event evidence data as part of the event details. With this release, svchost.exe is excluded from injection. This eliminates certain timeout issues with Windows Server 2019 at boot.

Metrics 218
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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-11-16T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-16T21:05:00+00:00. Mobile and touch are the new normal for computing, but there remain a lot of myths, rumors, errors, bias, and out-of-date information on how portable touchscreens are used.

Mobile 90
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Starting your Project to Product Journey: Find a Compelling Reason to Change

Tasktop

Functioning in silos instead of cross-functional value streams, funding scope/projects instead of capacity, leadership collecting metrics on utilization instead of value delivered – many organizations are realizing that their current ways of organizing aren’t enough to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world. While they know they need to change, there’s not a lot of practical advice readily available that explains how to start that change from within. .

Metrics 97
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SQL Server Extended Events tips

SQL Shack

This article aims to provide some beneficial tips about SQL Server extended events that make it easier to create and use event sessions. Introduction SQL Server extended events is a performance monitoring tool that has the ability to collect various event data of the SQL Server. So that, it allows diagnosing the performance and other […].

Servers 89
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How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them. The dashboard was built during my recent Performance Clinic on k8s monitoring at Scale with Prometheus and Dynatrace.

Metrics 214
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Next.js Wildcard Subdomains

Smashing Magazine

Next.js Wildcard Subdomains. Next.js Wildcard Subdomains. Sam Poder. 2021-11-19T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-19T12:16:24+00:00. A “wildcard”? What in the world? Great question, these types of domain stem from Wildcard DNS Records which look like this: *.example. 3600 TXT "Wild! You have found a wildcard.". When used, this DNS record will cause any subdomain that matches with the wildcard to hold a TXT value of: “Wild!

Servers 87
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How to cut your Selenium test run time by 70%

TechBeacon Testing

Deep inside the implementation of every automated UI test lies the potential to turn something simple into something slow and unreliable—simply by adding extra Selenium commands. The reason: Longer tests are less likely to pass.

Testing 84
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Why is GTmetrix Seeing a File I Have Deleted From My Website?

Gtmetrix

We discuss why GTmetrix may be seeing a file on your website that you think shouldn’t be there. Overview GTmetrix analyzes your page’s performance by loading it in our browser, and using Lighthouse (and our own custom audits) to evaluate its performance. In some situations, what GTmetrix sees on your page may be different […].

Website 80
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Extend flexible and granular access management for team enablement and autonomy at scale

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Observability is gaining more and more attention these days, with multiple teams across organizations leveraging the insights. Access requirements for users are typically dependent on the organizational structure of a company and how its roles and department structures evolve. It’s therefore necessary to make access management configurable at scale so that it can be easily adapted to changing requirements and enable a self-service culture.

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Boost Software Testing Productivity with Test Data Management

Kovair

Views: 28 When Elon Musk stressed how self-driving cars would dominate the market in years to come in Dubai during the World Government Summit, it.

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Map Camp 2021?—?links to my maps from the Green Economy session with Carlota Perez and Andra Sonea

Adrian Cockcroft

Map Camp 2021?—?links to my maps from the Green Economy session with Carlota Perez and Andra Sonea Red sky sunset?—?photo taken by Adrian in Monterey County, California This year at Map Camp , I was happy to have my Amazon Sustainability team sponsor the Sustainability track, sharing the support with Liam Maxwell of AWS UK Public Sector, and to share the online stage with two awesome speakers, the famous economist Carlota Perez?

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How should enterprises execute cross-browser testing?

Testsigma

As a small business or a startup, we often make decisions that can change the whole structure of our working processes. Honestly, this is not a bane that can bring the businesses down. Such businesses thrive on these decisions as they let them clearly decide what suits them best and why. What’s better than finding it on their own by trying a mix of things?

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Writing from 2021

Addy Osmani

A quick recap of books and articles I wrote this year

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Interview Performance Does Not Equal Job Performance

Professor Beekums

This is a conversation I had when I was interviewing a few years ago: Interviewer: “Yeah, a lot of candidates actually have trouble with this problem because it never shows up in the software we write.” Me: “…so why is it part of the interview?” Silence There is so much content out there right now about what candidates can do to “stand out” and “perform” well on interviews.

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Powerful Terminal And Command-Line (CLI) Tools For Modern Web Development

Smashing Magazine

Powerful Terminal And Command-Line (CLI) Tools For Modern Web Development. Powerful Terminal And Command-Line (CLI) Tools For Modern Web Development. Louis Lazaris. 2021-11-15T13:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-15T16:34:44+00:00. Many modern programmers, including front-end and full-stack developers, work daily with the command line. Even those who are relatively new to web development are picking up command-line skills early and finding practical tools and utilities to enhance their productivity in the te