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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Key themes and best practices for protecting against cyberthreats

Dynatrace

According to Forbes, cybersecurity threats have increased by 7% in Q1 of 2023 from 2022. The theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October 2023 is “ Secure Our World” The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will incorporate this theme throughout its awareness initiatives. Cyberthreats are on the rise.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

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DevOps automation: We’re only halfway there

Dynatrace

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. But according to the 2023 DevOps Automation Pulse , only 56% of end-to-end DevOps processes are automated. Automation is a crucial aspect of achieving DevOps excellence.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. The multi-core performance gap between i-devices and budget Androids grew considerably, with the score delta rising from 4,318 points last year to 4,936 points in 2023.

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Selecting the appropriate index type, creating composite indexes, and regularly analyzing and reindexing the database can substantially improve query speed. Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload.

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