Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2023

Insights from Statista show the Kubernetes market share of the public cloud went from 16% in 2021 to 45% in 2022. Originally developed by engineers at Google, K8s has achieved global fame as the go-to solution for hosting across on-premise, public, private, or hybrid clouds.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2021 Application Performance Management Trend Report. Performance in any cloud-distributed application is key to a successful user experience. In this article, we will cover the following:

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. This is what sets Dynatrace apart as a Leader in application performance monitoring. The post Dynatrace key takeaways from o11yfest 2021 appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

I am delighted to share, Dynatrace has been named a Leader for the 11 th consecutive time in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report. Also, Gartner released its 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM report, which evaluated solutions from 15 vendors.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

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Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. 34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability, Gartner has named Dynatrace a Leader and positioned it highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. However, most organizations still have an opportunity to adopt such solutions to address emerging threats and vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. This is what sets Dynatrace apart as a Leader in application performance monitoring. The post Key takeaways from o11yfest 2021 – SRE, Observability, and OpenTelemetry appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2019, this number increased up to 204 billion, and in 2021, this rate is keeping growing. What Is Mobile App Performance Testing? The market is filling up with mobile applications more and more. According to Statista , in 2016, the number of app downloads was approximately 140 billion.

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Simform

JANUARY 2, 2021

Efficient configuration of AWS Lambda functions is highly critical when you're expecting an optimal performance of your serverless applications. This blog discusses potential serverless performance bottlenecks and ways through which you can finetune AWS Lambda performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The State Of Web Workers In 2021. The State Of Web Workers In 2021. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These are just some of the topics being showcased at Perform 2023 in Las Vegas. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. In fact, Gartner estimates that, by 2025, more than 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms—up from 30% in 2021.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

We're excited about the newly launched points of presence (POPs) in 2021! It's our mission to continuously improve web performance and each POP contributes to it. Performance report Brisbane - Australia Brisbane is our 4th POP in Australia. The new POP ensures better performance along the East Coast. What's next?

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CSS - Tricks

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Apparently, there is but one tool that does it all: eleventy-high-performance-blog. The post Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021 appeared first on CSS-Tricks. Set far-out expires headers on images and have a cache-busting strategy (like changing the file name). They seem very related. Feels like a trend.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the quality assurance and software testing domain, there are several trends that will be following in 2021. You will track the developments for 2021 here at Testsigma and use Testsigma mobile automation tool for making testing easy and hassle-free. Here is the list of software testing trends you need to look out for in 2021.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). 2021-12-02T14:00:43+00:00. 2021-12-02T17:05:37+00:00. The Java Advent 2021 is here! Festive Tech Calendar 2021. Iris Lješnjanin. Amy Dutton on Twitter.

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DZone

JANUARY 18, 2021

The modern commercial enterprise’s demands make it obligatory for every single organization to have an optimized and high-performing web application and website. The application or website quality plays a significant role in how users perceive the organization, and, in turn, how much faith they have its products.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. What is Google Web Vitals?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2021

Code review is a technique that can improve the quality of a codebase by having multiple developers look for bugs and other problems before passing them on to others. Manual code reviews are costly and time-consuming, which is why many development teams use automated tools to do this work.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell at Perform 2022 in Las Vegas. Organizations are accelerating movement to the cloud, resulting in complex combinations of hybrid, multicloud [architecture],” said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace chief executive officer at the annual Perform conference in Las Vegas this week. Dynatrace news. For our complete?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet. Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet. 2021-09-22T15:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-22T15:50:00+00:00. There are plenty of ways to detect performance bottlenecks and audit CSS. Vitaly Friedman. The tool in action.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022. While conventional monitoring scans the environment using correlation and statistics, it provides little contextual information for remediating performance or security issues.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Likewise, the share of cloud-hosted clusters increased from 31% in 2021 to 45% in 2022.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

In a monitoring scenario, teams typically preconfigure dashboards to alert about performance issues they may expect to see later. IT teams use APM tools to view and address the many variables that can impact an application’s performance. Observability differs from monitoring.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Factors such as reliability and quality are being given extra attention that results in the decrease of software app errors, enhancing the security and the app performance. It is one focal point where all software testing companies should treat with care.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

As per Onometra’s software testing trends for 2021 , codeless automation testing will witness an increase. Before proceeding, if you’re interested in understanding software testing trends for 2021, check our article out. that you’d like to perform tests on. What is Codeless Automation Testing?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

On December 9, 2021, the first indicators of the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell) began to reverberate across the world. With the highest-level CVSS severity score of 10 out of 10, Log4Shell ( CVE-2021-44228 ) has a wide-ranging effect given the ease with which attackers can exploit Log4j, and the impact it could have if exploited.

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2021 Application Performance Management Trend Report. Selecting an application performance management (APM) solution can be a big undertaking as many factors must be considered. For more: Read the Report.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

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