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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. in 2020, ecommerce grew 14.2% in 2021.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Here begins our 2021 adventure. Advances in browser content processing. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. Instead, experience teaches that it's the process of taking care to attend to those least-well-off that changes outcomes. A 2021 Global Baseline.

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Digital transformation strategies: Success stories from three digital transformation journeys

Dynatrace

Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds. Enhanced business operations.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. These challenges can be summarized by this quote, paraphrased here from Adobe’s 2021 Digital Trends report : “Your customers are digital, unpredictable, and easy to lose.” Order processing workflow is triggered by customer orders.

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Achieving observability in async workflows

The Netflix TechBlog

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. Things got hairy. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Vitaly Friedman. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).