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Interviewing and Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals - Book Review

DZone

It is good to see more books on the performance testing/engineering genre recently. One of my favorite books is The Art of Application Performance Testing series by Ian Molyneaux. On this line, James Pulley's book is different, it is completely a non-technical book in the performance testing/engineering genre.

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Evolving From Performance Testing to Modern Engineering

DZone

Performance testing stands as one of the most crucial aspects of ensuring seamless functioning of applications. As organizations strive for innovation and rapid releases, the significance of evaluating software performance throughout its lifecycle becomes increasingly paramount.

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Why business resiliency depends on unified observability and security

Dynatrace

trillion this year 1 , more than two-thirds of the adult population now relying on digital payments 2 for financial transactions, and more than 400 million terabytes of data being created each day 3 , it’s abundantly clear that the world now runs on software. With global e-commerce spending projected to reach $6.3

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction. These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System , ICPE 2020 [ Video ].

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Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. Charts are now resizable and movable.

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Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution amplifies OpenTelemetry integration for scalable, production-ready observability

Dynatrace

Organizations use it to collect and send data to a backend, such as Dynatrace, that can analyze software performance and behavior. Before OpenTelemetry and the W3C Trace Context open standard that underpins it, observability vendors had to reverse-engineer tracing libraries.