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Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. Before you commit to leveraging AWS services, architect your solution and perform a cost analysis to make sure you can gain the most benefit.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. I started off this whole train of thought because I wanted to see, realistically, what impact Brotli might have for real websites. Okay, yeah.

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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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How BizDevOps can “shift left” using SLOs to automate quality gates

Dynatrace

Keptn closes the loop of planning, testing, deployment, and analysis in Agile-like environments with the help of quality gates defined by service- and business-level indicators. For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1 seconds at e-commerce websites increases the average size of shopping carts by as much as 9.2%.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS , Makewaves , JustGiving.

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