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OctoPerf 11 - Modular Design, Tags and Improved Administration

Improvements Modular design One of the things we always wanted to handle in OctoPerf is modular design. In JMeter you can use test fragments. So far when you imported fragments in OctoPerf their content was just duplicated over the original Include controller or Module controller. But now not only can you import your modular design from JMeter but you can also create it directly in OctoPerf.

Meeting the Multi-Cloud Management Challenge

Corporations are diverse. Consequently, the software needed to support business units tends to vary. In fact, more than eight out of 10 corporations now run multiple cloud solutions, according to Forrester Research. With recent outages across major cloud providers making news and impacting millions of customers, organizations are rightfully assessing how a multi-cloud approach can mitigate downtime risk. In this new environment, one challenge is managing the different cloud solutions.

Bugfender Growth: from side-project to a sustainable $20k MRR business

It’s nearly five years since we started Bugfender as an offshoot of our software company Mobile Jazz. We’d gotten tired of chasing users who were experiencing problems with our apps and wanted to build an internal remote logging tool that would feed the information straight to us. It really was a garage project back then. We were running code sprints on our own time, so we wouldn’t have to dig into our savings. But we soon realized this could be much more than an internal experiment.

How Does Garbage Collection Work In PHP?

Thanks to PHP being an interpreted language and it that it has a garbage collector, PHP developers don't often have to think about memory management. Unlike developers in compiled languages, such as C/C++, we don't have to give that much thought to memory allocation and deallocation. However, it's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.

Data Ops and Automation

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