Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. If we speak about open source tools, we definitely see some improvement – but in many areas they are still behind the best commercial tools (yes, many may not need these adv

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’m working on a client project at the moment and, as they’re an ecommerce site, there are a lot of facets of performance I’m keen to look into for them: load times are a good start, start render is key for customers who want to see information quickly (hint: that’s all of them), and client-specific metrics like how quickly did the key product image load?

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High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

This post was written by Wendy Dessler of The Blog Frog. Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is quickly gaining in popularity across the tech world. These software platform solutions helps users easily manage their database operations without having to really understand any of the abstractions. This allows developers, DBA’s and DevOps engineers to quickly automate their backups, create new SQL and NoSQL clusters, and monitor the performance of their databases for their application without requir

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. Maybe you’ve done this before and have an old script lying around. If it’s new, it’s probably going to take some time to set up, right? Not at Netflix. ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the s

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DZone

JULY 26, 2019

Before we get into the tutorial hands-on, I would like to mention that this topic is not new. It has been covered in various helpful articles like the ones from TestAutomationGuru. The content which I am about to present has its custom favors and solves specific issues that I have encountered while working with this setup.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 16, 2019

Microservices, serverless, AI, ML, and Kubernetes are among the most notable topics in our analysis of proposals from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. The speaker proposals we receive for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference are valuable because they come from speakers who are often the leading names in their fields. These go-to experts and practitioners operate on the front lines of technology.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Scott Jehl has written this wonderful piece about how 5G is on the horizon and how it could cause problems for users. But first, he starts by talking about the overwhelming positive news about it: [.] as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019.

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Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Not all instructions on modern processors cost the same. Additions and subtractions are cheaper than multiplications which are themselves cheaper than divisions. For this reason, compilers frequently replace division instructions by multiplications. Roughly speaking, it works in this manner. Suppose that you want to divide a variable n by a constant d.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , I decided to answer multiple comments here separately. First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.

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High Scalability

MARCH 4, 2019

How is software developed at Amazon? Get a couple of prime pizzas delivered and watch this excellent interview with Ken Exner, GM of AWS Developer Tools. It's notable Ken is from the tools group, because progress in an industry is almost always made possible by the development of better tools. The key themes from the talk: decomposition, automation, and organize around the customer.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

By Pythonistas at Netflix, coordinated by Amjith Ramanujam and edited by Ellen Livengood As many of us prepare to go to PyCon, we wanted to share a sampling of how Python is used at Netflix. We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members.

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DZone

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Which language do you use for test automation? There is always a lot of uncertainty around which programming language to use when starting a new test automation project. Should you go with the same language that the development team is using? Or should you choose a language that has an abundance of community support so that you can easily get help when stuck?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dynatrace news. Organizations seeking ways to capitalize on the cloud computing delivery model also look to shorten development cycles without sacrificing superior user experience. In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Have you ever received a call from your bank because they suspected fraudulent activity? Most banks can automatically identify when spending patterns or locations have deviated from the norm and then act immediately. Many times, this happens before victims even noticed that something was off. As a result, the impact of identity theft on a person's bank account and life can be managed before it's even an issue.

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Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Every day around the world, millions of trips take place across the Uber network, giving users more reliable transportation through ridesharing, bikes, and scooters, drivers and truckers additional opportunities to earn, employees and employers more convenient business travel, and hungry … The post Uber Infrastructure in 2019: Improving Reliability, Driving Customer Satisfaction appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

NULL handling is one of the trickier aspects of data modeling and data manipulation with SQL. Let's start with the fact that an attempt to explain exactly what a NULL is is not trivial in and of itself. Even among people who do have a good grasp of relational theory and SQL, you will hear very strong opinions both in favor and against using NULLs in your database.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. In this short and hopefully very straightforward post, I want to outline the disadvantages of hosting your static assets ‘off-site’, and the overwhelming benefits of hosting them on your own origin.

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TechBeacon Testing

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When it comes to QA, I am often asked, "What should my testing strategy be?" The answer, unfortunately, isn't clear-cut because it depends on your product's level of maturity.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

TLA+ model checking made symbolic Konnov et al., OOPSLA’19. TLA+ is a formal specification language ( T emporal L ogic of A ctions) particularly well suited to reasoning about distributed algorithms. In addition to the specification language, the TLA+ toolset includes a model checker (TLC) and a theorem prover (TLAPS). Given the huge state spaces involved in many real-world settings, the TLC model checker can take a long time / a lot of resources to run.

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High Scalability

MARCH 6, 2019

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019 ? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. In this post, we discuss the top 5 GUI tools for administering your PostgreSQL deployments. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? The thrill of that car chase through Pittsburgh not only introduced a whole new set of mysteries, but it returned us to a beloved and dangerous world alongside Dustin, Lucas, Mike, Will and Eleven.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It's time to automate you testing process! What Is Automated Testing? DZone Refcard: Automated Testing: Improving Application Speed and Quality — Learn more about mobile testing in Kotlin, go beyond what Selenium provides for web application testing, and take a deep dive into trends such as Behavioral-Driven Development and Visual Regression. Getting Started With Automated Testing by Jason Simon — A breakdown of all the information about Automated Testing into more digestible pieces to make it e

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

Dynatrace news. At Dynatrace, we’re constantly striving to come up with solutions that can help modernize your performance and user experience monitoring strategies. Session Replay is one such feature, allowing you to capture and visually replay your users’ experiences with your application, just like you’re watching a movie. Session Replay can significantly improve the way your team performs tasks such as: Resolving customer complaints by watching visual replays so that you know exactly w

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 24, 2019

Today, I am happy to introduce the new AWS Asia Pacific ( Hong Kong ) Region. AWS customers can now use this Region to serve their end users in Hong Kong SAR at a lower latency, and to comply with any data locality requirements. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

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Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Uber’s busy 2019 included our billionth delivery of an Uber Eats order, 24 million miles covered by bike and scooter riders on our platform, and trips to top destinations such as the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, and the … The post Uber’s Data Platform in 2019: Transforming Information to Intelligence appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. Source: ThinkWithGoogle. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant ou

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues. I disclosed all of the below to Cloud.typography and gave them ample opportunity to work together to solve the issues at the root of the problem. There was no appetite from them to do so, so I decided to make it all available for free anyway—a faster web benefits everyone.

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TechBeacon Testing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If you're thinking about building your own test automation framework, think again. In most cases, you'd do better to consider one or more of the open-source options available.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. The book includes over 150 BPF observability tools that you can run to find performance wins and troubleshoot software, and also shows you how to write your own.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 28, 2019

div align="center">. This is a guest post from Ryan Averill at FraudGuard.io. At FraudGuard.io we are a team of just a few developers; all working with our customers to try to make their applications as safe as possible. We have been working on FraudGuard for about 3 years and we’ve had paying customers for more than 2 years now. The main idea behind FraudGuard is for us to get attacked so you don’t have to.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2019

MySQL Server generates several logs that can help you monitor the activities of the server. However, once these logs are enabled, they can grow in size and start taking up too much disk space. This is why it’s important to have an automated way of archiving and preserving MySQL log files for a certain duration, as well as deleting the old ones. In this blog post, we describe some best practices for setting up and managing MySQL error logs, general logs and slow query logs for your MySQL deployme

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

By Benoit Rostykus, Gabriel Hartmann Noisy Neighbors We’ve all had noisy neighbors at one point in our life. Whether it’s at a cafe or through a wall of an apartment, it is always disruptive. The need for good manners in shared spaces turns out to be important not just for people, but for your Docker containers too. When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance.

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