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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

Rigor

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

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