IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Gaming‍With millions of players worldwide often playing simultaneously, online gaming companies cannot afford significant downtime without risking player satisfaction and potential revenue.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Many games, like Fortnite or World of Warcraft, have worldwide fanbases that expect the ability to play at any time. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

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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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Historically, telco analytics have been limited and difficult. Analytics and insights have always taken a back seat to the first two priorities – accurate data processing and billing. Does this affect our analytics strategy? Change the telco game from the ground up. The answer: Absolutely! Phones are being sold unlocked.

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Historically, telco analytics have been limited and difficult. Analytics and insights have always taken a back seat to the first two priorities – accurate data processing and billing. Does this affect our analytics strategy? Change the telco game from the ground up. The answer: Absolutely! Phones are being sold unlocked.

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 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. Vitaly Friedman. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You'll have logs and analytics scattered across different CDNs.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. Its support for advanced data structures (for example, lists, sets, and sorted sets) also enables a variety of in-memory use cases such as leaderboards, in-memory analytics, messaging, and more.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You'll have logs and analytics scattered across different CDNs.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Once you begin to view web performance in terms of how to provide the best experience to your visitors, you’ll find your results begin to match up with what other experience. It falls on you to make sure your site is performant for the average user using a lower-end device. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

Speed 88

Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. Anton Nemtsev.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. After only two months, customers had already provisioned enough capacity to perform hundreds of billions of requests per day.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. There are two big questions: How do you quantify the impact that these third-party requests have on website performance? Large preview ).

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. If there are people who can lend you extraordinary infrastructures, tools, and high-performance servers, you should take advantage of them for the project. Cloud technology is almost everywhere today.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. More on that when we get to iOS. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Their tables can also grow without limits as their users store increasing amounts of data.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Throughout the experiment I will suggest performance tips to speed up the first contentful paint and perceived loading time of the page. Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS. Performance Tip #2: Minify And Uglify Your Assets. Performance Tip #3: Less Is More. Performance Tip #4: Compress Text-based Assets.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96