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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

In this OpenTelemetry demo series, we’ll take an in-depth look at how to use OpenTelemetry to add observability to a distributed web application that originally didn’t know anything about tracing, telemetry, or observability. As for logs, the OpenTelemetry group is currently still working on stable implementations.

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Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization. For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. The post Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

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AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Cluster and container Log Analytics. Instead of presenting you with a handful of random screenshots from our demo environment I reached out to Robert, a close friend of mine, who leads a development team with the current task to re-architect and re-platform their multi-tenant SaaS-based eCommerce platform. REDIS for caching.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Even many of their demos, packed full of content, load under 800 ms. Configure cache to optimize your website Caching is a complex technology with many layers.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Smashing Magazine

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. This Codepen demo demonstrates how it can be used to lazyload a number of tweets.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.