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Real Devices vs Emulators: Where Do You Test App Performance?

DZone

When testing the performance of a native Android or iOS app, choosing the right set of devices is critical for maximizing your chances of success. Differences in OS, screen size, screen density, and hardware can all affect how an app behaves and impact the user experience. In order to ship new updates of your app with confidence, you should efficiently analyze app performance during development to identify issues before they reach the end-users.

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. While these serverless services provide strong business benefits due to their flexible on-demand usage and pricing model, they also introduce new complexities for observability. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, a

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Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the third 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) and Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?). Subsequent posts will go into more details on experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the i

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 4th, 2021

High Scalability

Hey, HighScalability is here again! The circulatory system of the internet. @tylermorganwall. Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Sorry for the long gap in posting, but I’ve been building a new app. I’m looking for testers for my new iOS fitness app: Max reHIT Workout. It guides you through proven ??

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Modernizing Computer Vision With Deep Neural Networks

DZone

As studied earlier, computer networks are one of the most popular and well-researched automation topics over the last many years. But along with advantages and uses, computer vision has its challenges in the department of modern applications, which deep neural networks can address quickly and efficiently. 1. Network Compression. With the soaring demand for computing power and storage, it is challenging to deploy deep neural network applications.

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Dynatrace and ServiceNow integration transforms how teams work

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. This past year, we’ve seen organizations rapidly transform and the digital future shows no sign of slowing down. Both Dynatrace and ServiceNow are committed to supporting organizations during this time of transformation. With the explosion of digital services across every industry, ServiceNow and Dynatrace see three big challenges IT teams are facing as they continue to transform business.

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Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

By Minal Mishra Quality of a client application is of paramount importance to global digital products, as it is the primary way customers interact with a brand. At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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DZone Live: The Resilience Episode

DZone

The Resilience Episode of DZone Live. Join us for our first-ever Resilience edition. Our featured leaders include Kolton Andrus from Gremlin, Zac Morris from Kintaba, and Ted Young from Lightstep. Have a question or topic you want us to address? Then, be sure to leave a comment! DZone Live is broadcast across all DZone social media channels.

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What is API monitoring?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Modern applications—enterprise and consumer—increasingly depend on third-party services to create a fast, seamless, and highly available experience for the end-user. Due to this growing complexity, it has become absolutely critical — and somewhat difficult — for IT staff to make sure these services are running and communicating as intended.

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Why I support the IATSE strike

Adrian Cockcroft

Discussing university with Rae went something like: “I’d like to go to film school”, “That’s a tough business to get into, but if you ever get invited to an award ceremony, we get to come, OK?”. Many years later, as you can see in the photo, we got to be proud parents and visit the red carpet at the Creative Arts Emmy awards, as Rae was nominated as Set Decorator for the Comedy Central TV show Drunk History.

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Freebie: COVID-19 Icon Set (56 Icons, AI, EPS, SVG, PNG)

Smashing Magazine

Freebie: COVID-19 Icon Set (56 Icons, AI, EPS, SVG, PNG). Freebie: COVID-19 Icon Set (56 Icons, AI, EPS, SVG, PNG). Anton Tyschenko. 2021-10-07T09:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-07T12:38:32+00:00. In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are tirelessly working on vaccines and medicine against COVID-19 in laboratories. In the meantime, the entire world is waiting for good news while people worldwide are hardly waiting to unite and return to a peaceful life.

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How Visual Studio 2022 Ate Up 100 GB of Memory and What XML Bombs Had To Do With It

DZone

In April 2021 Microsoft announced a new version of its IDE – Visual Studio 2022 – while also announcing that the IDE would be 64-bit. We've been waiting for this for so long – no more 4 GB memory limitations! However, as it turned out, it's not all that simple. By the way, if you missed it, here's a link to the announcement post.

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MSDB SQL Database Maintenance and Cleanup

SQL Shack

This article explores the MSDB SQL Database maintenance and cleanup process essential for every DBA. Introduction SQL Server system database – MSDB stores SQL Server agent jobs, History, schedules, database mail, service broker, backup, and restore History. In many databases, we run routine jobs, backups, maintenance plans, and due to these things, MSDB size might […].

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What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Dotcom-Montior

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. It also encompasses a strategy and set of practices and principles across service offerings and is closely tied to DevOps and operations. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created.

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Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda)

Smashing Magazine

Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). Tom Hudson. 2021-10-05T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-05T14:09:21+00:00. This article is for anyone struggling with testing cloud services locally, and specifically for people wanting to locally test an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS.

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A Themeable React Data Grid With Great UX-Focused Features

CSS - Tricks

(This is a sponsored post.). KendoReact can save you boatloads of time because it offers pre-built componentry you can use in your app right away. They look nice, but more importantly, they are easily themeable, so they look however you need them to look. And I’d say the looks aren’t even the important part. There are lots of component libraries out there that focus on the visuals.

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Min and Max memory configurations in SQL Server Database instances

SQL Shack

This article gives an insight into the configuration of Min and Max memory for SQL Server Database instances. Introduction The server performance depends on various factors such as CPU, Memory, and Storage configurations. SQL Server works on top of the operating system and works closely with these resources. Usually, if you RDP to SQL Server, […].

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8 Functional Testing Types Explained With Detail

Enprowess

8 Functional Testing types. Quick Summary: In the most straightforward and simple words, functional testing tests various aspects of an application, website, or system to guarantee that it is correctly doing what it should be. This blog will explain each functional testing type and when it should be performed during the software development life cycle.

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Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions

Smashing Magazine

Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions. Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions. Bryan Robinson. 2021-10-08T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-08T14:08:15+00:00. Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools.

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What is Regression Testing? Explained with Test Cases, Tools, and Methods

Simform

Regression testing is one of the types of testing that organizations conduct to verify that the core functionalities of the products are working well whenever there's an update or addition of a new element. Here, we discuss regression testing, its types, test cases, tools, techniques, and everything that is of utmost value. The post What is Regression Testing?

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The ghost cleanup task for SQL Server Databases

SQL Shack

This article explains the internals of the Ghost cleanup task for SQL Server Databases. Introduction Each relational database consists of the background process and user processes.Similarly, SQL Server has many internal processes such as Checkpoint, Lazy Writer, Lock Monitor, System_Health_Monitor, Trace Queue Task and Ghost CleanUp. Broadly, we can divide these system processes into the […].

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New and improved Support Hub!

Speed Curve

One of the things I love about SpeedCurve is our commitment to writing help documents that actually help. Every time we release a new feature, we make sure to give you an accompanying support doc – often written by the same team member who led the feature development. Luckily, we have great writers on our team, so our docs are exceptionally clear, concise, and easy to follow (if I do say so).

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How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery

Smashing Magazine

How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery. How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery. Silvestar Bistrovi?. 2021-10-04T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-04T14:10:33+00:00. One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. We could, for example, add a click effect to enlarge the image without affecting the grid to make it a little bit more fun.

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How Much Does Software Testing Cost? 9 Proven Ways to Optimize it.

Simform

This blog begins with understanding the importance of software testing, followed by an insight into cost-effective testing solutions and strategies to reduce software testing cost. We've tried to make this guide as practical as possible for you to find exact solutions to reduce software testing costs. . The post How Much Does Software Testing Cost? 9 Proven Ways to Optimize it. appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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A SQL Interview Question: Define Deadlocks with an example

SQL Shack

In this article, we will try to find out an answer to the “Could you Define Deadlocks with a Simple Example” question that might be asked for the database administrator interviews. Define Deadlock with a Simple Example Deadlock is a very complicated issue and sometimes it can be laborious to understand this concept. So let’s […].

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New: Bookmarks dashboard now including RUM Sessions

Speed Curve

We have released new functionality for bookmarking in SpeedCurve. This update includes two important new capabilities: 1.) Access your bookmarks from the main navigation -> Bookmarks. 2.) Ability to bookmark RUM sessions. Check out the support article for more information about using bookmarks.

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ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

CSS - Tricks

This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your <head> element. First, it’s possible to make a <style> block visible like any other element by changing the display away from the default of none. It’s a nice little trick. You can even do that for things in the <head> , for example… head, head style, head script { display: block; }.

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ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

CSS - Tricks

This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your <head> element. First, it’s possible to make a <style> block visible like any other element by changing the display away from the default of none. It’s a nice little trick. You can even do that for things in the <head> , for example… head, head style, head script { display: block; }.