Dynatrace
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Dynatrace news. As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. As a result, IT operations, DevOps , and SRE teams are all looking for greater observability into these increasingly diverse and complex computing environments.
High Scalability
AUGUST 2, 2021
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine , Co-founder & CTO of Algolia , to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the first article in a series. Search engines, and more generally, information retrieval systems, play a central role in almost all of today’s technical stacks.
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DZone
JUNE 28, 2021
Introduction. In today’s highly competitive world, software development and automation play a significant role in creating robust software applications for businesses. Additionally, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain have given a competitive edge to enterprises. For gaining maximum benefits out of automation testing , testers require hands-on experience in a minimum of one automation programming language.
The Netflix TechBlog
JUNE 7, 2021
By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight.
Scalegrid
JANUARY 15, 2021
Auditing in information technology (IT) is a process of examining an organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure compliance with the requirements imposed by recognized standards or established policies. Data protection rules, such as the new GDPR regulations, are becoming increasingly stringent to protect user data, so it’s important that your database audits are set up properly […].
All Things Distributed
JUNE 9, 2021
The goal of AWS Proton is simple: customers should be able to adopt, customize and evolve best practices and technologies for delivering their modern applications to the cloud, and not worry about how they roll this out – potentially to thousands of developers – across their organization.
Smashing Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. Michelle Barker. 2021-11-17T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-17T16:37:20+00:00. There’s more to color on the web than meets the eye, and it’s about to get a lot more interesting! Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.
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Allen Holub
JULY 24, 2021
Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. Process exists in service of people; the people come first. The best ways to work are collaborative. Negotiation is not collaboration. Isolated individuals making heroic efforts are never as effective as collaborative groups. We get the best results when customers, business people, and… The post Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list.* appeared first on Allen Holub.
InfoQ
AUGUST 9, 2021
While numerous libraries exist to abstract away the complexities of asynchronous and concurrent programming, developers still need to drop down to lower thread-handling logic from time to time. Continuing our API changes for.NET 6 series, we look at some new tricks for multi-threading. By Jonathan Allen.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 5, 2021
Uber delivers efficient and reliable transportation across the global marketplace, which is powered by hundreds of services, machine learning models, and tens of thousands of datasets. While growing rapidly, we’re also committed to maintaining data quality, as it can greatly … The post How Uber Achieves Operational Excellence in the Data Quality Experience appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Dynatrace news. Companies are evolving to become customer-centric by adopting service level objectives (SLOs) to understand customer needs better. Teams are using concepts from site reliability engineering to create SLO metrics that measure the impact to their customers and leverage error budgets to balance innovation and reliability. It can be challenging to cut through the massive volume of telemetry data and quickly understand the impact on your business and customers.
High Scalability
OCTOBER 11, 2021
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine , Co-founder & CTO of Algolia , to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the second article in a series. Here's Part 1. Search engines need to support fast scaling for both Read and Write operations. Rapid scaling is essential in most use cases.
DZone
DECEMBER 24, 2021
However long you work in software, you always feel late to the party. You encounter some seemingly cutting-edge new tool only to learn it has been around for decades, sometimes inspired by research papers from 1970. Still, you can’t keep up with everything and have a life. Property-based testing (PBT) is such an established technology and it deserves more attention.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 8, 2021
By Michelle Brenner Netflix is poised to become the world’s most prolific producer of visual effects and original animated content. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent. Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need.
Scalegrid
AUGUST 16, 2021
Guest post by Ben Hagan from PolyScale.ai Data-driven applications span a wide breadth of complexity, from simple microservices to real-time event-driven systems under significant load. However, as any development and/or DevOps team tasked with performance improvements will attest, making data-driven apps fast globally is “non-trivial”. Modern application architectures such as the JAMstack enforce the separation […].
All Things Distributed
JUNE 10, 2021
We launched our AWS Space Accelerator to catalyze space innovation and support some of the most innovative startups that are helping shape the future of aerospace. Meet the 10 startups to take part in the first cohort of the AWS Space Accelerator.
Smashing Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers. Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers. Louis Lazaris. 2021-09-02T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-02T15:09:03+00:00. Because this industry moves so quickly, learning new skills is a regular thing for most of us. Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development.
Abstracta
MAY 21, 2021
From planning to analysis and reporting, here’s what to know before you run your first load test If you have a public-facing web application, the odds are you. The post An End-to-End Guide of Load Testing appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
Alex Russell
APRIL 29, 2021
Three facts. Apple bars web apps from the only App Store allowed on iOS. [1]. Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. Apple claims that browsers on iOS are platforms sufficient to support developers who object to the App Store's terms.and a proposition: Apple's iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered.
Brendan Gregg
JUNE 14, 2021
For USENIX LISA2021 I gave a 40 minute deep dive talk on BPF internals for Linux, focusing on observability tracing tools. Since there are already BPF internals references online (listed in this post) I used the opportunity to create some new content, showing how bpftrace instrumentation works from user space down to machine code. I break it down to all the small components involved, where you'll find it's actually quite easy.
Uber Engineering
MAY 19, 2021
API gateways are an integral part of microservices architecture in recent years. An API gateway provides a single point of entry for all our apps and provides an interface to access data, logic, or functionality from back-end microservices. It also … The post The Architecture of Uber’s API gateway appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Dynatrace news. If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. In a nutshell, they are complementary and, in part, overlapping technologies to create, manage, and operate containers. Here are the main differences between Kubernetes vs.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
This is guest post by Sachin Sinha who is passionate about data, analytics and machine learning at scale. Author & founder of BangDB. This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. I have used latest versions for each NoSQL DB and have followed the recommendations to run all the databases in optimized conditions.
DZone
AUGUST 8, 2021
As companies develop, they provide services at greater capacities. To achieve new heights, a company needs to improve the quality of the platform behind its success. Several software tests can improve your digital products. Software scalability tests are imperative for any company operating in the digital market. Scalability testing and performance testing are ways to assess software capabilities.
SQL Performance
OCTOBER 13, 2021
This article is the twelfth part in a series about named table expressions. So far I covered derived tables and CTEs , which are statement-scoped named table expressions, and views , which are reusable named table expressions. This month I introduce inline table-valued functions, or iTVFs, and describe their benefits compared to the other named table expressions.
Allen Holub
JANUARY 23, 2021
The notions of accountability and responsibility often pop up in the context of business, as if both of those ideas are good things. A culture of accountability, we’re told, is essential to running a business. The word “accountable” appears all over the 2020 Scrum Guide, as if it’s somehow an Agile notion instead of capitulation… The post #NoAccountability appeared first on Allen Holub.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 20, 2021
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
Smashing Magazine
OCTOBER 6, 2021
A Guide To CSS Debugging. A Guide To CSS Debugging. Stephanie Eckles. 2021-10-06T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-06T10:38:09+00:00. We’ve all been there, at the end of completing CSS for a layout and — what’s that? Ah! An extra scrollbar! Or maybe an element is an unexpected color. And on some browsers, that new feature just doesn’t seem to be working.
Abstracta
JANUARY 23, 2021
Have you heard the hype around k6 yet? Yes, yet another open source performance testing tool is making waves. In this post, I’ll share my k6 review in. The post k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
Speed Curve
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. The audience varies. A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. As great as these discussions can be, I often walk away feeling like there was a better way to streamline the conversation while still conveying my passion for bringing fellow PMs into the world of webperf.
Brendan Gregg
JULY 2, 2021
There's an arms race to add eBPF (BPF) to commercial observability products, and in this post I'll describe how to quickly do that. This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. People like to show me their BPF observability products after they have prototyped or built them, but I often wish I had given them advice before they started.
Uber Engineering
JULY 22, 2021
Introduction. As Uber’s business grew, we scaled our Apache Hadoop (referred to as ‘Hadoop’ in this article) deployment to 21000+ hosts in 5 years, to support the various analytical and machine learning use cases. We built a team with varied … The post Containerizing Apache Hadoop Infrastructure at Uber appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Dynatrace
MAY 24, 2021
Dynatrace news. AWS Lambda is the fastest growing technology for serverless workloads and helps developers innovate faster. It removes the burden of managing underlying infrastructure and is broadly adopted for cloud-native application environments. But serverless functions don’t exist in a vacuum. It’s critical that you understand how they impact your customer-facing web applications, mobile apps, or APIs and how they interact with other functions, services, and classic technology stacks.
O'Reilly
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Much has been written about struggles of deploying machine learning projects to production. As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new
DZone
JUNE 9, 2021
Whenever we need to do performance testing, mostly it is the APIs that come to mind. Testing the performance of an application by putting load on APIs or on servers and checking out various metrics or parameters falls under server-side performance testing.
TechBeacon Testing
JANUARY 8, 2021
The last decade has seen a relentless push to deliver software faster. Automated testing has emerged as one of the most important technologies for scaling DevOps, companies are investing enormous time and effort to build end-to-end software delivery pipelines, and containers and their ecosystem are holding up on their early promise.
Professor Beekums
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
This is a conversation I had when I was interviewing a few years ago: Interviewer: “Yeah, a lot of candidates actually have trouble with this problem because it never shows up in the software we write.” Me: “…so why is it part of the interview?” Silence There is so much content out there right now about what candidates can do to “stand out” and “perform” well on interviews.
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