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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding With Best Practices & When To Enable It

Percona

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Depending on the database size and on disk speed, a backup/restore process might take hours or even days! Depending on the database size and on disk speed, a backup/restore process might take hours or even days!

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. It’s a pretty common question around here, so let’s see what we can do about that. So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Additionally, MySQL 8.0

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6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

KeyCDN

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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