DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But, performance testing is a little tricky. If you sniff the traffic, you don't get any network data. If you are working on Shiny apps performance testing, then this blog article is for you. This blog article explains load testing shiny apps using shinyloadtest package. What Is Shiny?

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why This Is a Problem.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a.

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DZone

MAY 26, 2021

Stress testing is a type of testing that verifies the reliability and stability of software applications. The goal of this kind of testing is to measure the error handling capabilities of the software to ensure that it does not crash under extremely heavy load conditions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. White box testing The nicest thing about deploying UI changes to production is that you can immediately see the changes in action. Load generators simulate traffic.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ Dynatrace news.

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DZone

JANUARY 18, 2021

The modern commercial enterprise’s demands make it obligatory for every single organization to have an optimized and high-performing web application and website. In this circumstance, rigorous testing of the application and the website becomes crucial. It includes examining the application’s interface, as well as other functionalities.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This step is crucial as this environment is used for the final validation and testing phase before the code is released into production. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic. Furthermore, augmenting test coverage to mirror the scenarios encountered in production is imperative.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

With most employees now working from home, and the demand on e-commerce platforms hits an all-time high, applications and infrastructure are under intense pressure with new usage patterns that have never been planned for or tested against. How are insurance companies using Dynatrace amid COVID-19?

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

As monolithic applications have given way to cloud-connected microservices that perform distinct functions, containerized environments, such as the Kubernetes platform, have become the framework of choice. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

These issues can arise from errors in the code, insufficient testing, or unforeseen interactions among software components. A poorly tested feature release leads to incompatibility issues, resulting in downtime for users. A poorly tested feature release leads to incompatibility issues, resulting in downtime for users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Today, every business wants high-performing and high-quality software. But usually, it is seen that most of the applications fail to deliver expected performance under peak load or fluctuating network conditions. Today, let's learn more about this testing type in depth. What Is Performance Testing?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” Through six years of research, the DORA team identified these four key metrics as those that indicate the performance of a DevOps team, ranking them from “low” to “elite,” where elite teams are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals. Deployment frequency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. What characterizes a weak SLO?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Here are some of the tasks orchestration platforms are challenged to perform. What is Docker? Networking.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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DZone

JULY 18, 2023

It makes sense for DevOps engineers and architects to perform canary deployments in their CI/CD workflows. They cannot skip testing a release for the sake of adhering to continuous delivery practices, can they? In canary deployments, the new version, called canary, is tested with limited live traffic at first.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Correlating performance issues with Kubernetes pod evictions. Degraded performance in relation to Kubernetes workload misconfigurations. These crucial enhancements provide significant advantages in meeting your Kubernetes performance goals while avoiding potential service disruptions. Davis AI targeting Kubernetes orchestration.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. Those tests get executed from two locations (Paris and London) hosted by different cloud vendors (Azure & AWS). As a general best practice, Synthetic Tests are great to validate your core use cases are always working as expected.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. or “How will performance be accurate if the machine is not physical?” The post The future of synthetic testing is in the cloud appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

It enables users to perform any maintenance actions by providing pause/resume functionality. For test purposes, DCS can be installed on same nodes running PostgreSQL. High Availability Test Scenarios. We conducted a few tests on PostgreSQL HA management using Patroni. Standby Server Tests. Test Scenario.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With cloud-based resources, teams can spin up infrastructure in seconds, begin testing immediately, scale up or down as needed, and easily eliminate resources that are no longer needed. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Improved performance and availability.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

Through load testing , businesses may determine how well their system performs under typical and predicted peak loads, ensuring that it can withstand the demands of actual usage. We will discuss the concept of load testing in this blog article, as well as its significance and practical application to ensure optimum performance.

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Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. This can occur especially when: There are temporary load spikes due to peak loads from monitored applications that are being load tested, or from cluster nodes that are taking over load from others that are under maintenance or being upgraded.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

for streaming traffic. We use AES Galois/Counter Mode, as it also provides good performance and high throughput. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips. A/B Testing Result We were pretty confident that TLS 1.3 To see the actual performance of TLS 1.3 What is TLS?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Application security tests can be used to tell developers when they have introduced vulnerabilities into the application they’re building. Static Application Security Tests (SAST) analyze applications early in the pipeline when they are being written. Good web application security starts when the application is being developed.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are a traditional way of addressing this. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

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