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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. Service-level objectives (SLOs). availability.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. That performance golden rule still holds true today.

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Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.

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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

The Morning Paper

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.