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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. in 2020, ecommerce grew 14.2% in 2021. As Alois Reitbauer, chief technology strategist at Dynatrace, noted in 2020, organizations shouldn’t be caught off guard during Black Friday and other high-volume times.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. There are proven strategies for handling this.

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

We've also grown our team, expanded our customer base, completed a full-scale site redesign, launched our in-house consulting practice, and refined our tools and processes. Technically, Elena joined us at the very end of 2020, but since this marks the end of her first full year at SpeedCurve, I wanted to include her here.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. July 2020, Twitter experienced a significant outage that lasted for several hours, rendering the platform inaccessible to millions of users worldwide.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. July 2020, Twitter experienced a significant outage that lasted for several hours, rendering the platform inaccessible to millions of users worldwide.

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Mobile web testing – 3 approaches that will make your life easy

Testsigma

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. One of the best practices while performing this test is to find out if the features we’ve designed are supported by various browsers. We can use Can I Use?

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radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance

CSS - Tricks

In mid-2020, I picked up the new iPhone SE. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price. Most of all, don’t follow “best practices” if the result is that your app effectively excludes a part of your audience that can’t afford high end devices. Safari on 2nd Generation iPhone SE. Startup time.