July's performance wrap up, Cisco's software bug fiasco, and more
Published: 2020-08-06 21:25:37

Hi folks, 

Welcome back to another edition on Performance Matters! We'd to say a big thank you to all of the folks who made it out to our first Raygun 101 webinar where we run through all of the major features for each of our products. They'll be happening bi-weekly, so [sign up](https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HJIcY2zHTtuLu70CfmrAvQ) if you're interested!

This week, we’ve got July’s monitoring and performance wrap-up, we investigate the difference between perf testing, load testing, and stress testing, and the software bugs causing havoc at Cisco. 

Enjoy! 

Your Curator 

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### FEATURED ARTICLES

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<strong>July monitoring and performance wrap up</strong>

Get a complete wrap-up of the latest posts, projects, and insights from the Dev community from our very own Helen Anderson. These will be coming out monthly, so make sure to give her a follow on Dev.to!

[Get the overview](https://dev.to/raygun/monitoring-and-performance-wrap-up-july-2020-kkn)

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<strong>Measuring and examining TLS 1.3, IPv4, & IPv6 performance</strong>

In this article, learn how the performance of TLS 1.3, IPv4, and IPv6 compare against one another.

[Read the verdict](https://nooshu.github.io/blog/2020/07/30/measuring-tls-13-ipv4-ipv6-performance/)

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<strong>Perf vs. load vs. stress testing — what's the difference?</strong>

You may have heard of these terms before, but do you really know the difference? Let's find out!

[What's the difference?](https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/what-is-performance-testing-load-testing-stress-testing/)

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### BUG OF THE WEEK

<strong>Mission-critical data center bugs at Cisco</strong>

Cisco has recently addressed some security bugs that have caused critical vulnerability concerns. Read all about it from the folks at Latest Hacking News.

[What went wrong?](https://latesthackingnews.com/2020/08/02/cisco-addressed-multiple-bugs-in-data-center-network-manager/)

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### COMMUNITY

<strong>How we increased transactions per second by 44%</strong>

As we scale our infrastructure, being able to handle more data for less cost presents some serious business wins. Find out what happened when we removed Nginx, and whether you should consider doing the same.

[How we did it](https://raygun.com/blog/removing-nginx/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=performance_matters&utm_campaign=removing_nginx)

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<strong>The struggles of being an elf at Christmas</strong>

I'm sure we've all had people underestimate what it takes to do our jobs at some point, but no one feels this pain more than the Christmas elves. 

[When elves learn to code](https://twitter.com/cpp_ape/status/1289172890684776448)

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