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Testing Perl: To Plan or Not to Plan

DZone

Let's assume for the moment that you're writing a Perl module or application. You'd like to maintain some level of software quality (or kwalitee ), so you're writing a suite of test scripts. Whether you're writing them first (good for you for practicing test-driven development !) or the application code is already there, you'll probably be reaching for Test::Simple , Test::More , or one of the Test2::Suite bundles.

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Session Replay improved for continuously deployed apps: CSS file capture

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In modern software development, continuous deployment is a standard practice that features, among other things, quick end-user feedback and short development cycles that result in improvements to your software. If you’re using continuous deployment in combination with a session replay tool, you’ve likely faced issues when playing back user sessions: styling and positioning of some elements on playback may differ significantly from what the user experienced at the time

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Achieving observability in async workflows

The Netflix TechBlog

Written by Colby Callahan , Megha Manohara , and Mike Azar. Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. Imagine getting paged outside normal work hours?—?users are having trouble with the application you’re responsible for, and you start diving into logs.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. What's good for one user may be bad for another. There are also cases where I can't tell either: The tools only provide clues for further analysis. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference.

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Code Quality Metrics

DZone

"Employing these Metrics to excel the performance of code directly impacts the profitability of the business. Achieving high-quality standards ultimately increases the ROI of the software. Consider it as a matter of choosing between investing excess time as well as resources initially or wasting the same later in fixing issues". For the developers, practicing to write a good quality code in the initial phase of the coding job not only prevents the efforts and hours spent in précising the errors

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How to maximize Kubernetes monitoring with AI-driven automation

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. With containers now the common framework for deploying microservices-based applications at scale, the need for robust management tools is also on the rise. Kubernetes (K8s) is the platform of choice for many organizations, providing a portable, extensible, open-source solution designed to streamline containerized workload oversight. But who watches the watchers?

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Impact of SQL Variables on Performance

SQL Shack

In this article, we are going to learn how SQL variables negatively affect query performance and also examine the causes of this issue. Introduction SQL variables are used to store a single data value during the execution period of a query and they are widely used in the design of the queries. The local variables […].

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Test Azure Service Bus Performance by Generating a Million Test Messages

DZone

For the people using Azure Service Bus namespaces, we often have the need to ensure the Azure Service Bus Performance by testing our system integration by generating some test messages on the Azure Service Bus resources. You might need this for QA/Development for performance testing, load testing, etc.

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Automatic and intelligent end-to-end observability for OpenTelemetry Java

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Establishing end-to-end observability insights for today’s highly dynamic and exceedingly complex cloud-native production environments represents an enormous challenge to IT operations and SRE teams who are responsible for ensuring that hundreds, or even thousands, of running services meet with agreed upon SLOs. To avoid blind spots that get in the way of efficient root cause analysis and increase resolution times, such teams need an enterprise-scale platform that provides a holi

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SQL Server Performance Tuning tips for beginners

SQL Shack

This article intends is to give helpful SQL Server performance tuning advice to those who want to learn performance tuning. Introduction One day a rooky database administrator has said to me: Understanding and solving SQL performance issues require an enormous amount of work. Me: There is no doubt, SQL Server performance tuning issues are very […].

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Cloud-Based Testing – A tester’s perspective

Testsigma

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The main reason is – it is faster, inexpensive, flexible, and requires no maintenance. The best part is that we do not own it, can easily lease it from a service provider, can easily scale up and scale down according to requirements and only have to pay for the amount of time we use the cloud resources.

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How to put AI to work on your performance engineering right now

TechBeacon Testing

If you've attended a webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) lately, you've likely heard that they are sweeping the globe, and perhaps you've heard that we'll be able to simply point software at a website, click "go," and get performance test results, all thanks to the magic of AI.

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How We Delivered More Features and Solved Incidents Faster By Using Our Own Product

Tasktop

The Tasty Dog Food Series: 1. “Eating your own dog food,” “ice creaming,” “drinking your own champagne” — whatever you want to call it — refers to a company using its own product, either to test drive it or to show confidence in it. Well, here at Tasktop we have another reason for using our own products: We actually really like them and what they do for our business.

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Express vs. Django: 10 Indicators to Choose the True Backend King

Simform

While choosing the best backend technology for web app development, two prominent frameworks are on everyone's priority lists- Express and Django. But, selecting one of them is not easy, so here are ten differentials to decide the true backend king! The post Express vs. Django: 10 Indicators to Choose the True Backend King appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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HammerDB v4.1 New Features Pt3: Step Workloads

HammerDB

HammerDB Variable or Step Workloads are an advanced testing feature that enables you to automatically vary the load on the database over a period of time. When taking this approach you would not focus on the test result but instead monitor the databases ability to cope with the variation in demand and transaction response times. Step Workloads. To implement Step Workloads, HammerDB v4.1 introduces a CLI only command called steprun combined with a new XML configuration file called steps.xml.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. What's good for one user may be bad for another. There are also cases where I can't tell either: The tools only provide clues for further analysis. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference.

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Springing into the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021

Tasktop

Ah spring… the flowers start to bloom, the sun finally starts to make an appearance, people come out of hibernation, and patio brunches become the regular. Oh, and it just so happens that one of our favourite events of the year takes place too, providing the perfect opportunity for the DevOps community to come together: The virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe (18-20 May 2021). .

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Number series generator challenge solutions – Part 5

SQL Performance

This is the fifth and last part in the series covering solutions to the number series generator challenge. In Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 I covered pure T-SQL solutions. Early on when I posted the puzzle, several people commented that the best performing solution would likely be a CLR-based one. In this article we’ll put this intuitive assumption to the test.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. What's good for one user may be bad for another. There are also cases where I can't tell either: The tools only provide clues for further analysis. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference.

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Ramadan: A Time to Reset, Slow Down and Contemplate

Tasktop

Tasktop’s Mission : We are driving toward an inclusive company culture. We are building a come-as-you-are community of mutual respect and trust. We believe that diverse teams perform better and foster an environment of belonging and inclusion. We aim to continually learn, evolve and be better versions of ourselves. Everyone relates to and approaches festivals differently.

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