Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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Percona

JANUARY 10, 2025

When setting up data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption) in Percona Server for MongoDB, one has three options for storing a master encryption key: Encryption key file on a filesystem, KMIP server, HashiCorp’s Vault. An encryption key file is only suitable for testing due to its lack of proper security.

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DZone

MARCH 25, 2022

As you may agree, it is important to test your code. Often I saw that this is not tested thoroughly or not at all. With Testcontainers , writing integration tests has become a commodity. In this post, we will add some resilience tests to a sample application using it.

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

We often undertake testing of failover characteristics of various MongoDB drivers to qualify them for production use cases, or when our customers ask us for advice. Testing Failover Behavior. You can test the resilience of your applications by inducing failovers while your workload runs. servers.mongodirector.com:27017 (X.X.X.X)

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This time I would like to show my experience creating an End2End test for a Camel integration application that connects these layers: Apache Kafka. KIE server ( rules engine ). Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. PostgreSQL. Localstack ( AWS similar ). Red Hat Ingress upload service. Minio ( AWS similar ).

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The testing that is done to verify the interface functionality is called Interface testing. It is also defined as a software testing type that verifies whether the communication between two different software systems is done correctly. Common Components of Interface Testing. Web server and application server interface.

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DZone

MARCH 9, 2021

A framework is a collection or set of tools and processes that work together to support testing and developmental activities. It contains various utility libraries, reusable modules, test data setup, and other dependencies. We decided to dive deeper into PHP and find out what the best PHP testing frameworks are.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Use Cases and Requirements At Netflix, our counting use cases include tracking millions of user interactions, monitoring how often specific features or experiences are shown to users, and counting multiple facets of data during A/B test experiments , among others. With this approach, the counts continually converge to their latest value.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

by Moshe Kolodny In this post, we’re excited to introduce SafeTest, a revolutionary library that offers a fresh perspective on End-To-End (E2E) tests for web-based User Interface (UI) applications. Inability to test CORS setup or GraphQL calls. Complex and unintuitive authoring and debugging of tests.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , First of all, integrating into agile development (shift-left / continuous performance testing) and integrating into performance information loop with production (shift-right) to form a holistic performance view. I decided to answer multiple comments here separately.

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DZone

MAY 31, 2022

A website needs to be constantly tested and optimized to be in line with Google's web and SEO guidelines. This article will learn about web performance testing and how Core Web Vitals plays a crucial and strategic part in it. What Is Web Performance Testing?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rob Jahn, Dynatrace senior technical partner manager, and Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace DevOps activist discussed the role of platform engineers in the video “ Deploy, Test, Evaluate, Repeat : The Power of Webhooks for DevOps Platforms Engineers.” Open source automated browser and testing tool. Atlassian Jira.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

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. All of these tests were performed while the application was running and inserting data to the PostgreSQL database. Standby Server Tests.

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

API Test is crucial for the software systems to function at high quality. It is mainly the channel that links the client to the server, drives business procedures, and gives the services which give worth to users. What is API Test? Every app you build nowadays completely relies on Application Programming Interfaces.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog post will provide a detailed analysis of replay traffic testing, a versatile technique we have applied in the preliminary validation phase for multiple migration initiatives. In this testing strategy, we execute a copy (replay) of production traffic against a system’s existing and new versions to perform relevant validations.

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DZone

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Need for the Creation of the STS Plugin From a Web Application in Tomcat The idea of having a server to manage the dataset was born during the performance tests of the income tax declaration application of the French Ministry of Public Finance in 2012.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Take a simple client-server use case. But most of the time, there are some minor details every developer takes for granted, and the client-side and the server-side developer never discuss, and just a ssume. This assumption may be true at a given time, but can come back and bite us any day.

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DZone

MARCH 24, 2021

We typically understand software testing by the everyday definition of the word: making sure a piece of software performs the way it is supposed to in a production-like environment. For a complex distributed application with several external dependencies there is nothing that can beat a full end-to-end test. Or is there?

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Recently I covered some of the T-SQL improvements in SQL Server 2022 here , and Aaron Bertrand covered additional improvements here. Microsoft just announced the release of SQL Server 2022 CTP 2.1. For example, suppose that prior to SQL Server 2022 you had the following query: SELECT. So far so good. FROM T1 INNER JOIN T2 ON T1.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

PostgreSQL server authentication refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to connect to the PostgreSQL server. The pg_hba.conf file is used to configure the authentication methods the PostgreSQL server uses and can specify different methods for different types of connections.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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 also used the default six test scenarios as defined by the YCSB framework. I have restricted it to 10M records for each test.

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DZone

AUGUST 28, 2019

These days, our code frequently has to reach out to a remote server as part of its job, usually consuming an API or some other service. Introduction. Frequently, our code communicates with these remote services in a RESTful manner.

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DZone

JULY 14, 2021

Selenium has gone through a tremendous evolution since its introduction and that’s the reason today it is the most popular and powerful automation testing tool. The newly released Selenium 4 is creating a lot of buzz and the complete testing community is looking forward to exploring its updated features.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

If the primary server encounters issues, operations are smoothly transitioned to a standby server with minimal interruption. Key Takeaways PostgreSQL automatic failover enhances high availability by seamlessly switching to standby servers during primary server failures, minimizing downtime, and maintaining business continuity.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. You can free up space and reduce the load on your server by compressing and optimizing images. With Cloudways Autonomous your website is hosted on multiple servers instead of just one. Lets jump right in!

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

MySQL configuration variables are a set of server system variables used to configure the operation and behavior of the server. Configuration variables that can be set at run time are called Dynamic variables and those that need a MySQL server restart to take effect are called Non-Dynamic variables. and MySQL 8.0. In MySQL 5.7,

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

While building production systems that can scale to zero and reliably restart can be challenging, it’s often simpler in test stages and build pipelines, making this a great place to start. Select data centers intelligently Sending fewer bytes saves energy on the server, client, and any device in between.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

If the script has already performed writes to the server and must still be killed, use the SHUTDOWN NOSAVE to shutdown the server completely. In fact, this discussion applies to any high availability system that depends on polling the Redis servers for health: Long-running scripts will initially block client commands.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

Taking a very reductive and simplistic view of how files are transmitted from server to client, we need to look at TCP. They are each acknowledged before the next series of packets is transferred until the client has all of them, none are left on the server, and the client can reassemble them into what we might recognise as a file.

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DZone

JULY 24, 2022

broke records and defeated top-ranked messaging services in benchmark tests. When testing a new product, it's important to see how it stacks up against its competition. For years, researchers at UT Darmstadt have compared the performance of message-oriented middleware servers based on Java Messaging Service (JMS).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

AL2023 is supported by Dynatrace on day one and has been thoroughly tested by our installations team. Dynatrace provides server metrics monitoring in under five minutes, showing servers’ CPU, memory, and network health metrics all the way through to the process level, with no manual configuration necessary.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

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). “ The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

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DZone

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Mocking Test Methodology. User Service — Example to Be Tested With Mocks. User Service — Example to Be Tested With Mocks. The key idea of mocking is to replace real code (e.g. call to database or service) with artificial functionality that has the same return type. There are different approaches to this practice.

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DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Apache JMeter is an open-source, Java-based tool used for load and performance testing of various services, particularly web applications. JMeter can simulate heavy loads on a server to analyze performance under different conditions. JMeter also supports distributed testing, enabling it to handle multiple test threads simultaneously.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

While its use and importance has decreased as the inbuilt replication options improved on PostgreSQL server side, this still remains a valuable option for older versions of PostgreSQL. Follow these steps to set up Pgpool-II, enable the connection pool services you need, and connect to your PostgreSQL server. At a glance. How it works.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Despite the name, serverless computing still uses servers. This means companies can access the exact resources they need whenever they need them, rather than paying for server space and computing power they only need occasionally. If servers reach maximum load and capacity in-house, something has to give before adding new services.

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