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9 Best Free Brainstorming Tools For Entrepreneurs

DZone

Brainstorming is essential to almost every other individual these days. Especially, when it comes to harnessing productivity in entrepreneurs these days, the importance of brainstorming can never be over-emphasized. Therefore, having great brainstorming tools at your disposal is vital.

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Easy SLA and SLO reporting for all your API endpoints with public synthetic HTTP monitors

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes.

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affordable, flexible and easy to use cloud platform for developers to work with. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Line noise? Perl? Still uncertain? It's how you program a quantum computer. Silq. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who could benefit from understanding the cloud? Of course you do.

Internet 213
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MSTest Tutorial: Environment Setup For Selenium Testing

DZone

MSTest is a popular open-source test framework that is shipped along with the Visual Studio IDE. It is also referred to as Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework; however, MSTest is more synonymous within the developer community. As the MSTest framework comes pre-bundled with Visual Studio, many developers prefer MSTest over other C# frameworks such as NUnit, xUnit.net, etc. for Selenium test automation.

Testing 246
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Dynatrace Managed turnkey Premium High Availability for globally distributed data centers (Early Adopter)

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. This means that Dynatrace continues full operation when a majority of nodes are up and a maximum of two nodes are down at a time. For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down.

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Popular Vim Commands - Comprehensive Vim Cheat Sheet

KeyCDN

Vim was made available in 1991 and is a free, open source software. Available both as a command line interface and as a standalone program with a GUI, Vim is a text editor that is a modal version of the vi editor created for Unix in the 1970s; Vim stands for vi improved. While it was designed with Unix in mind, versions of it are available for most operating systems and Vim is also available for Android and iOS smartphones.

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All You Need to Know About Selenium Web Driver

DZone

Testing is a crucial need for today’s digital enterprises to compete with the present business market and user-requirement. Automation testing is one of the software testing methods that has made testing simpler and easier for the testing teams with test automation tools. Selenium is one of the most popular web automation frameworks with several effective features.

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Stability requires virtual gardening!

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Guest blog from Dynatrace customer Mark Forrester, Digital Readiness Manager at Mitchells & Butlers. Working in a digital delivery environment I’m hearing a lot of people talking about “stability of the platform” to which I respond, define your interpretation of stability. stability (noun). the state of being stable.

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Remote Workshops Using Miro: What I’ve Learned So Far

Strategic Tech

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. This was necessitated by Covid. All my private and public trainings until March this year had been in-person. I knew that I didn’t want the online workshop to be a poor version of the in-person training. I wanted it to take advantage of everything digital tools can provide.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Andrew Clarke. 2020-06-26T14:00:00+00:00. 2020-06-26T14:19:08+00:00. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. A few of these projects lasted a year, some several months, but the majority for no more than a few weeks.

Design 98
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How to Stop Test Suite After N Test Failures In Pytest

DZone

An exhaustive test-suite comprises many test cases that test different features on various combinations of browsers, platforms, and devices. Though it is recommended not to skip tests, there are cases where you may want to stop test suite after n test failures, (n is the failure threshold value) number of the test fails while performing Selenium test automation.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China.

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The Analytics That Matter

CSS - Tricks

I’ve long been skeptical of quoting global browser usage percentages to justify their usage of browser features. It doesn’t matter what global usage of a browser is, other than nerdy cocktail party fodder. The usage that matters is what users on your site are using, and that can be wildly different from site to site. That idea of tracking real usage of your actual site concept has bounced around my head the last few days.

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Dirty Reads and the Read Uncommitted Isolation Level

SQL Shack

In this article, we will discuss the Dirty Read concurrency issue and also learn the details of the Read Uncommitted Isolation Level. A transaction is the smallest working unit that performs the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) actions in the relational database systems. Relevant to this matter, database transactions must have some characteristics to […].

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Using DTrace on Oracle Linux

DZone

Have you ever want to know the following application information on the production system? Call stack when the function is called. The elapsed time used by the functions. The values of parameters passed to the functions. The return values of the functions. The functions’ call trace. OS behaviors. Typically, this information can be retrieved by enabling debug logging or attaching a debugger to the application.

Systems 233
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DNS Blacklist Monitoring: Protect Your Company’s Reputation

Dotcom-Montior

Did you know that around 306 billion emails have been sent globally every day in 2020 and about 45 percent of all emails received are spam. Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Email servers tend to blacklist certain IDs as spam based on their content. And for companies marketing their business via emails, 36 percent of the total spam messages across the globe are attributed to advertising content.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Django websites involve a lot of files. It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons.

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Real-Time Location Changes with MongoDB Realm, Change Streams, and Mapbox

The Polyglot Developer

When it comes to modern web applications, interactions often need to be done in real-time. This means that instead of periodically checking in for changes, watching or listening for changes often makes more sense. Take the example of tracking something on a map. When it comes to package shipments, device tracking, or anything else where you need to know the real-time location, watching for those changes in location is great.

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How To Debug Protractor Tests for Selenium Test Automation?

DZone

End to end testing of web applications is pivotal to ensure it’s quality. This is why you need to make sure that all the issues and bugs are addressed. When you encounter issues while testing, the best approach is step by step debugging the code. Debugging can be a great way to ensure that your Selenium automation tests run as intended and there are no false positives or negatives.

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The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates

Dotcom-Montior

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a global security standard technology that is being adopted by a number of different organizations across the globe. Essentially, SSLs are small data files containing a cryptographic key. This key carries important information about the organization using it. Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security.

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Platform Adjacency Theory

Alex Russell

TL;DR: Does it matter if the web platform adds new capabilities? And if it should, which ones? The web is a meta-platform. Like other meta-platforms the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do. Adjacency to the current set of capabilities provides a disciplined way to think about where to invest next when working to stave off irrelevance.

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MariaDB Server Fest: Call for Papers

Percona Community

In the week of 14-20 September 2020, MariaDB Foundation will host the MariaDB Server Fest Online Conference. We welcome the Percona Community not just to participate, but also to submit papers for the event. We already have Peter Zaitsev joining as keynoter; we hope for more to come. Our target audience are the users of MariaDB Server – current and future ones.

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Eliminating Communication Issues With Your Testing Team

DZone

Success of a software project strongly depends on efficient teamwork. The latter, in its turn, requires a proper level of communication within the team. The bigger the project team is, the more focus is needed on the processes of interaction and knowledge sharing within it. And even more – if it is an offshore team. While it is usually a PM’s responsibility to engage the teammates and to resolve any issues they come across, there are certain areas where customer’s impact is decisive.

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L’Chaim! Tasktop’s Bar Mitzvah Year Is Monumental

Tasktop

One of the small reliefs afforded by working from home during COVID-19 is that I no longer have to race home from the office to drive my son all around Austin for his extra-curricular activities. Just like the rest of us, his trumpet and piano lessons are now held over FaceTime or Zoom, and we’ve canceled swimming and an Orangetheory membership in favor of 5k runs around the neighborhood. .

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Top 8 eCommerce UX Strategies to Improve Conversion Rates

Simform

User experience is often the differentiating factor between eCommerce businesses. While everyone is aware of the benefits of a pleasant eCommerce UX, most find it difficult to introduce the same on their online store. There are multiple facets to an awesome shopping experience and this blog is going to take through all of them. Continue reading to find out how you can improve customer satisfaction, and therefore sales, by improving the user experience.

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Cassandra Where and How by John Schulz

Percona Community

If Percona Live ONLINE had graded its talks by skill level this year, John Schulz’s talk would have been essential viewing in the Beginners track. (You can watch all the event’s presentations now on Percona’s YouTube channel.) This talk was a good overview and meant for anyone who had heard of the Apache Cassandra distributed database but wasn’t sure whether it would be suitable for their project or not.

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Improve Mobile App Performance to Enhance the User Experience

DZone

Poor Mobile App Performance: A Horror Story. I can vividly remember one of the horrors I faced due to poor mobile app performance, which occurred while traveling across Europe with nothing but two friends, a backpack, and my iPhone in tow. All summer long, I relied on mobile apps for getting from one place to the next. Naturally, they needed to work properly for my trip to go smoothly.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

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AMA @cpp_russia on July 2

Sutter's Mill

C++ Russia is an online event this year, and I’m happy to be one of many C++ folks to be invited to participate. On July 2 I’ll be doing a Q&A session, which is the first time I’m doing an “AMA” — no talk, just Q&A and discussion. I’m looking forward to it, and to see what kinds of questions are on people’s minds.

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Percona Live ONLINE Talk: Optimize and Troubleshoot MySQL using Percona Monitoring and Management by Peter Zaitsev

Percona Community

Incorporating a database in an organization is a complicated task that involves a lot of people besides the DBAs. This is something that Peter Zaitsev, co-founder and CEO of Percona, understands very well. In the build-up to his hands-on presentation with the open source Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) platform, Peter spoke about how inducting a database in an organization is a constant tussle between the developers, the management and the DBAs.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.