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Efficient Tcp Server Connection Management

TCP connections, they are everywhere, almost every online interaction you make, whether it’s streaming your favourite video, sending an important email, or just casually browsing through different websites. They are like the foundational building blocks of the internet and so it’s important for them to be consistent and reliable. As you can see TCP servers get and handle billions of requests in a day, so it’s important for them to be able to do this efficiently.

API First Mindset | Ajay Balamurugadas | #Testflix2024 #APITesting

In this session, Ajay Balamurgadas addresses a common challenge in test automation: the over-prioritization of UI testing at the expense of API testing. While many teams understand the importance of APIs, they often focus on UI automation, resulting in fragile, hard-to-maintain test suites. This approach leads to wasted resources and diminishing returns, as UI tests become increasingly difficult to manage as the product evolves. Ajay explains how this cycle is reinforced by ineffective metrics that measure the quantity of tests rather than their impact, keeping teams "busy being busy" without driving real value.

Test Data Automation: The Complete Guide for Data Systems Testing

As the concept of data continues to dominate the strategic management of organizations, the efficiency of data systems is essential for the achievement of organizational goals. Automated testing is more or less changing the way organizations are verifying the quality, security, and performance of the data they store and process. Automated testing is changing how the testing process is done by providing different, better, and full-proof techniques of validating that a system works as expected.

How to Perform Mobile Application Penetration Testing on Android and iOS

Do you believe all the mobile apps you use in daily life are secure? Nowadays, mobile app usage is increasing, and therefore, the types of cyber threats have become essential to focus on security for developers and users. Testing mobile applications for vulnerabilities is complex, especially when dealing with the unique architectures and security models of Android and iOS platforms.

Playwright vs Selenium: The Ultimate Guide to Modern Test Automation (2025)

The landscape of test automation is constantly evolving, with Playwright and Selenium standing as two prominent frameworks in 2025. According to recent statistics, while Selenium maintains its position as the most widely used automation framework with a 39% market share, Playwright has shown remarkable growth, increasing its adoption by 235% in the past year.

What does OOMKilled mean and how do I prevent it?

When creating production-level applications, enterprises want to ensure the high availability of services. This often results in a lengthy development process that requires extensive testing for the applications or a new release. This involves testing the behavior of the application under load, measuring the performance metrics, and accounting for the resource consumption. All this is done to ensure that the application does not behave unexpectedly when being used by clients.