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. There are proven strategies for handling this.

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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 285

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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Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 279

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain. 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. Read eBook now!

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

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. And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often.

Cloud 203

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. For example, in e-commerce, you can validate and test checking out a shopping cart.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

To ensure the safety of their customers, employees, and business data, organizations must have a strategy to protect against zero-day vulnerabilities. Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. What is a zero-day vulnerability?

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 261

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

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. Error budget burn rate = Error Rate / (1 – Target) Best practices in SLO configuration To detect if an entity is a good candidate for strong SLO, test your SLO.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 264

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

If any problems made it past the testing or production environments, the team faced citizens potentially calling the governor’s office and newspapers to complain. Government IT finds higher work satisfaction in legacy modernization While these strategies benefit citizens, Zbojniewicz and Smith also improved IT staff satisfaction.

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Government Strategy Cloud Traffic 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. Whether triggered by a test result or a new release deployment, detected events work as a trigger to check the defined objectives and derive an overall status automatically.

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DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. These figures were estimated on 200 full-length titles from our catalog and have been validated through extensive A/B testing. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

Innovation 242

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 242

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

Latency 241

Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. One is the currently-running production environment receiving all user traffic (let’s say the “blue” one), the other is a clone of it (“green”), but idle.

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Systems Traffic DevOps Database 38

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. This implies that the cost of storing traces grows linearly to the amount of data being stored. What’s next?

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications. Expert Tip. Security Groups.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Finally, just 50% are confident their applications have been tested for vulnerabilities before going into production. For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. 75% say team silos and point solutions make it easier for vulnerabilities to slip through to production.

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Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

Metrics 206

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 206

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2022

BT has modernized with AIOps at the center of its digital transformation strategy. For BT, AIOps and digital transformation are at the center of the company’s upcoming three-to-five-year digital transformation strategy. No matter how much you test, you always get challenges. BT has 30 million consumer customers, 1.2

Cloud 246

Cloud Strategy Technology Technology 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. Implementation details We solved the cache synchronization problem (as stated above) with a combination of two strategies: Titus Gateway <-> Titus Job Coordinator synchronization protocol over the wire. queries/sec.

Cache 233

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Automatic failover is a critical strategy to achieve this. In our three-part series of posts on HA for PostgreSQL, we’ll share an overview, the prerequisites, and the working and test results for each tool. All of these tests were run while the application was running and inserting data to the PostgreSQL database.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. By simulating user interactions and running tests from various locations worldwide, synthetic monitoring provides a comprehensive view of application performance and availability.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In this post, we’ll walk you through the best way to host MongoDB on DigitalOcean, including the best instance types to use, disk types, replication strategy, and managed service providers. MongoDB Replication Strategies. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. What’s most impressive is that you’re not compromising performance for cost.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Database Latency 187

DZone

APRIL 21, 2023

A blue-green deployment model is a software delivery release strategy based on maintaining two separate application environments. As part of testing and validation of the new version of the software, application traffic is gradually re-routed to the green environment. Why Is Blue-Green Deployment Useful?

Software 130

Software Software Traffic Strategy 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance. Implementation We decided to implement the strategy through Linux cgroups since they are fully supported by CFS, by modifying each container’s cpuset cgroup based on the desired mapping of containers to hyper-threads.

Cache 258

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2019

Revised cleanup strategy for Elasticsearch snapshots. To address this storage issue for older snapshots, we’ve adapted our cleanup strategy so that monthly snapshots are now removed automatically after 6 months. Synthetic tests in CMC endpoint configuration didn’t work when no port was set. Also in this release.

Storage 145

Storage Metrics Strategy Java 145

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. For example, a test library is never deployed to production. According to Gartner , 80% of vulnerabilities are introduced via transitive dependencies.

Cloud 306

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 306

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? Mobile-first indexing. Speed and Accuracy.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Overall, adopting this practice promotes a structured and efficient storage strategy, fostering better performance, manageability, and, ultimately, a more robust database environment. Integrating DLVs into your database strategy will help you toward your efforts in achieving peak performance and reliability.

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

Social Media 130

Social Media Cache Traffic Media 130

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

This article will take an in-depth look at the various tools and strategies that help with mobile application testing. Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application? However, testing has also grown in prominence and importance because without rigorous testing, companies cannot put useful apps onto the market.

Mobile 54

Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. If you missed testing something, it’s totally fine to admit the oversight and take corrective actions. Exhaustive testing is impossible with limited time, resources and budget. Don’t Panic. Or during code review?

Education 105

Education Traffic Strategy Testing 105

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access.

Cache 139

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

An automated deployment system needs to carefully sequence a software update across a fleet while it is actively receiving traffic. This made it easy for developers to “push-button” deploy their application to a development host for debugging, to a staging environment for tests, and finally to production to release an update to customers.

Engineering 151

Engineering AWS Java Traffic 151

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Network RedundancyThe primary and most important advantage of a Multi-CDN strategy is redundancy, and, consequently, improved reliability.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These strategies help maintain system performance, reduce read overhead, and meet SLOs by minimizing the impact of deletes. Although clock-based token generation can suffer from clock skew, our tests on EC2 Nitro instances show drift is minimal (under 1 millisecond). This technique maintains read pagination protections.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 260

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. days and therefore contributing > 90% of the overall Commit Cycle Time! Pitometer is a Node.js

Architecture 149

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 149

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. Traffic from this POP will be billed towards Latin America according to our pricing. Hola Mexico! We've launched our new point of presence (POP) in Mexico City. Requests from Mexico were previously routed to the US, which is no longer needed.

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Latency Cache Tuning Traffic 111