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Dynatrace again named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM, received highest scores in 4 of 5 use cases in 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. I am delighted to share, Dynatrace has been named a Leader for the 11 th consecutive time in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report. Once again, Gartner has positioned Dynatrace highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. Also, Gartner released its 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM report, which evaluated solutions from 15 vendors.

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Redis vs. Memcached – 2021 Comparison

Scalegrid

Redis stands for REmote DIctionary Server, created in 2009 by Salvatore Sanfilippo. Memcached, on the other hand, was created in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick. Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL in-memory data structures Written in C Open source Used to speed up applications Support sub-millisecond latency In 2014, Salvatore wrote an excellent StackOverflow post on […].

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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites. Our top design priorities at the time were security, elasticity, reliability, durability, performance and cost because that’s what customers told us was most important to them for these types of applicat

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How to Compare Core Dumps for Simple Time Travel Debugging

DZone

How can the difference between two Linux core dumps be identified and why would this even come up? This is going to be lengthy, but will hopefully give you your answer to both of those questions. The Case for Comparing Core Dumps. Comparing two core dumps is only meaningful if they represent the same process at different points in time. If that's the case, they could be thought of as process snapshots.

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Business Insights extends support for optimizing Core Web Vitals

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. This is good news if you’ve been tasked with leading a Core Web Vitals SEO project. But you may be wondering, “how do I get started?”. Not everyone has expertise in performance optimization and how it can impact SEO.

Traffic 264
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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. It quite could be that some other companies have something interesting too – but they are not sharing that. [Another interesting project in that area is keptn , but that is about it. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.] MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it.

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A new era of DevOps, powered by machine learning

All Things Distributed

AWS is on a journey to revolutionize DevOps using the latest technologies. We are starting to treat DevOps, and the toolchains around it, as a data science problem – And when we think of it this way, code, logs, and application metrics are all data that we can optimize with machine learning (ML).

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What is DevOps? Gene Kim offers an expert view and explains how to maximize success

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Today, every organization is a software company, driven by demands for better, more connected digital experiences. To keep up, we’ve seen growing interest in DevOps and continuous delivery , as organizations aim to deliver new digital services and experiences faster. However, it isn’t as simple as just implementing a DevOps toolset, analyzing DevOps metrics, or investing in DevOps monitoring capabilities.

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10 great podcasts for software test engineers

TechBeacon Testing

Software development practices change fast. Development teams use an endless stream of new tools, frameworks, and practices, and it’s your job as a test engineer to make sure that no matter what your development teams use or create, everything runs and works reliably.

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How to Improve CSS Performance

CSS - Tricks

There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why: When there is CSS available for a page, whether it’s inline or an external stylesheet, the browser delays rendering until the CSS is parsed. This is because pages without CSS are often unusable. The browser has to wait until the CSS is both downloaded and parsed to show us that first rendering of the page, otherwise browsing the web would be a terribly visually jerky to browse.

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How Parallel Plans Start Up – Part 3

SQL Performance

This is the third in a five-part series taking a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start executing. Part 1 initialized execution context zero for the parent task, and part 2 created the query scan tree. We are now ready to start the query scan, perform some early phase processing, and start the first additional parallel tasks.

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Dynatrace again named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM, received highest scores in 4 of 5 use cases in 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. I am delighted to share, Dynatrace has been named a Leader for the 11 th consecutive time in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report. Once again, Gartner has positioned Dynatrace highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. Also, Gartner released its 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM report, which evaluated solutions from 15 vendors.

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Email Infrastructure Monitoring Checklist

Dotcom-Montior

A lot of time and resources are invested in making sure your customers get your emails. This is where email infrastructure comes in handy. While you have limited control over user interaction with your emails, monitoring email infrastructure is in your hands. Email infrastructure usually consists of your server and domain configuration, server performance, IP address, mail agents, and more.

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Mobile app automation testing Tools: An exhaustive list

Testsigma

It’s 2021 and we now have a mobile app for everything. Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. Simform (as of 2019) stated that an average user has at least 40 apps installed on their phones while millennials have around 67 apps. So, there’s a solid reason why mobile app testing is a crucial step in any app development process.

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Hidden secrets of SQL Server Foreign Keys

SQL Shack

This article will describe the effect of SQL Server foreign keys on query plans which are created by the query optimizer. Introduction Foreign keys are used to enforce the referential integrity between the data of the two tables and are frequently used in relational database designs. You can see the article, What is a foreign key in […].

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The state of digital transformation in Banking in the UK: Four Questions with Forrester Analyst

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Is the digital banking experience limited? You still have to rely on physical interactions for some services, alluding to the question: are banks ready for complete mobile and digital approach? Talk about moving online experience and online banking experience, but is it the same level of experience that you get within a branch to online?

FinTech 142
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Analyze first, test later: How to approach your next software project

TechBeacon Testing

As testers, our job is to develop a deeper understanding of systems, products, ideas, and situations. That requires experiencing, exploring, and experimenting with the products we're testing—and applying analysis to them.

Testing 64
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Automated mobile app testing – do you really need real mobile devices?

Testsigma

Mobile apps are not just the next (or current) big thing. They have become a part of our lives — in a way, steering our choices and decisions. By merely sitting on our couch, we apply for jobs, manage our projects, talk to our friends, the order in essentials, and even pay our bills. The convenience is unsurpassable, and thanks to the user-friendly functionalities, even our grandparents seamlessly book cabs, play games, and video call us. .

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SQL Server Performance Tuning made simple

SQL Shack

In this article, we’ll show a process for SQL Server performance tuning, and several tools, tips and techniques you can use to monitor performance and take the necessary steps to improve it. SQL Server is a common platform for enterprise-grade database workloads. As your SQL Server database grows in size and supports increasing application usage, […].

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Core Web Vitals: Practical metrics for optimal user experiences

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. User experience now defines website success. Ben Rushlo, Dynatrace Vice President of DEM Services, puts it this way: “As performance degrades, user experience degrades, engagement degrades, and business outcomes degrade.” The solution? Metrics that offer measurable, repeatable insight into the user experience from the moment they arrive on a website from a mobile or desktop device.

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Bootstrap vs React: A Comparison of 12 Principal Components

Simform

Bootstrap is often referred to as an open-source frontend toolkit, while Reactjs is a JavaScript library for building UI. With the building popularity and an emerging market share of Bootstrap, it has proved to be a good competition against React. With distinct qualities, characteristics, and features in each of these frameworks, the question that comes to our mind is, “Which one is the optimal framework for our project?”.

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Mobile Web Testing: Testsigma vs Appium

Testsigma

With the increased usage of smartphones in recent years, enterprises and the software industry now have to cater their applications to mobile devices for web testing in addition to desktops. Usually, there are three types of applications that are meant to be used in mobile phones. These are – i. Native Apps : Apps that are written and built using SDKs and native APIs.

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New Product Release: Tasktop Hub 21.2 – Design Facelift, Enhanced Support for Jira, GitLab, BMC Remedy

Tasktop

The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management (VSM) platform —Tasktop Hub 21.2—is out today. The latest updates and optimizes make end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. Our customers— Fortune 500 companies and other large-scale organizations across major industries such as manufacturing, finance, healthcare and government—can further boost their business agility as they continue to automate, trace and accelerate the flow of value-creating an

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How to drop tables for HammerDB TPC-C on SQL Server

n0derunner

From the SQL Window of SQL*Server. Issue these commands to drop the tables and procedures created by HammerDB. This will allow you (for instance) to re-create the database, or create a new database with more warehouses (larger size) while retaining the same name/DB layout. USE [TPCC] DROP TABLE [dbo]. [CUSTOMER] DROP TABLE [dbo]. [DISTRICT] DROP … The post How to drop tables for HammerDB TPC-C on SQL Server appeared first on n0derunner.

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Bootstrap vs Vue: Which Framework Would Win the Tug of War?

Simform

The modern website and application interfaces are constantly changing to offer the best user experience. However, modern application interfaces demand modern development tools. This comprehensive guide gives a detailed comparison of Bootstrap and Vue as a UI framework and provides various criteria you should look out for. The post Bootstrap vs Vue: Which Framework Would Win the Tug of War?

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How to Improve CSS Performance

CSS - Tricks

There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why: When there is CSS available for a page, whether it’s inline or an external stylesheet, the browser delays rendering until the CSS is parsed. This is because pages without CSS are often unusable. The browser has to wait until the CSS is both downloaded and parsed to show us that first rendering of the page, otherwise browsing the web would be a terribly visually jerky to browse.

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Leadership Insights to Track Your Project to Product Journey, Step By Step

Tasktop

The recent success of TUI Group’s migration to the cloud is a powerful example of what is possible by adopting a project to product mindset. With planes grounded and hotels closed due to the pandemic, the global travel company took proactive steps to refine the digital experience for employees and customers. Recognizing that the customer experience has dramatically changed, and will continue to change, the company’s Group CTO, Pieter Jordaan—with the support of his business counterparts—sp

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How to drop tables for HammerDB TPC-C on SQL Server

n0derunner

From the SQL Window of SQL*Server. Issue these commands to drop the tables and procedures created by HammerDB. This will allow you (for instance) to re-create the database, or create a new database with more warehouses (larger size) while retaining the same name/DB layout. USE [TPCC] DROP TABLE [dbo]. [CUSTOMER] DROP TABLE [dbo]. [DISTRICT] DROP … The post How to drop tables for HammerDB TPC-C on SQL Server appeared first on n0derunner.

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Five questions with Forrester Analyst: The state of the UK Retail landscape

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. What is going to happen to those companies that don’t invest [in digital transformation] and is the demand still going to be there in five years’ time for brick-and-mortar organizations? Businesses that have not already embraced ongoing transformation or have delayed it all together will suffer the most. For retail, in particular, the crisis has forced many to accelerate the execution of strategic plans for digital customer experience and operational excellence.

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