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Designing Resilient Selenium Tests for Highly Dynamic SPAs

🔥 SDET Interview Scenario of the Day: Your team's Selenium tests for a dynamic financial SPA are notoriously flaky. Elements are re-rendered, data updates asynchronously, and…

• Implement custom retry logic in Page Objects to manage re-rendering.
• Use smart waits with specific ExpectedConditions for data consistency.
• Avoid blind waits, favor explicit waits aligned with UI state.

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What Is Web Cache Poisoning? How Can a Cached Response Become a Security Problem?

Here's something that should be completely unremarkable. A user requests /homepage . The origin server generates a response. A cache stores it. The next user requests /homepage .

1d ago ·dev.to

Postgres for everything hits a wall the moment dashboards get concurrent

I used to say, "Just use Postgres." After that, our dashboards became concurrent, and the read replica we quickly added to offload some of the pressure from the main database began overheating…

• Postgres struggles with concurrent dashboard queries
• Row-oriented storage causes inefficiencies in analytics
• Mixing workloads leads to MVCC bloat and performance issues

1d ago ·dev.to

Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package

A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...

1d ago ·phoronix.com