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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. These tests open the retail home pages from various locations across America on a consistent basis. To learn more, download our Business Events handbook.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation.

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9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Change failure rate.

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50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills

Smashing Magazine

Copywriting is about human psychology, consumer behaviour and applying tried and tested methodologies. A classic from copywriter John Caples, the man behind spilt testing. The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells. Great grammar does not equal great copywriting. Kindle edition.

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Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe

Smashing Magazine

It serves as both a useful testing ground while I’m developing the function and an easy way to demonstrate how the function works, docs are good, interactive docs are better! If you’re interested in learning more about Serverless Functions I’d recommend: Swizec Teller ’s book, “ Serverless Handbook For Frontend Engineers ”.

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What to gift your software tester friend if you are the secret Santa?

Testsigma

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. Just Enough Software Test Automation by Daniel J.