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.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A call tracking app allows you to monitor traffic and identify peak call times. Optimize Keyword and Ad Campaigns A phone call tracking app can be a game-changer if your business relies on digital advertising. Enhance Call Routing and Response Times Efficient call routing and quick response times are crucial for customer satisfaction.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

If you’re unsure of where your traffic is coming from, use a tool like Google Analytics and track it for a while. And don’t get me started on third party scripts (such as ads or analytics pixels), which can single-handedly bloat your site beyond recognition. An automatic update to a plugin may bog your site down.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To understand the market and this massive growth in applications, you’ll need a modern performance testing platform that will ensure you can test streaming API-based and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types. The short answer is that they aren’t.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. reporting mechanisms (reporting and analytics tools), physical system connections etc.

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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. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. Indeed, some large sites I've worked with have built device model databases to bucket traffic based on system RAM to decide which versions/features to serve.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. Lighthouse is the de facto standard in project analytics. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle. Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM. It’s up to you! Using Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. This is where we started. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

through one of the dozens of analytics tools they've inevitably integrated over the years), but nobody looks at it. These organisations may perform incidental data collection (from business analytics tools, e.g.) but are inconsistently reviewing performance metrics or considering them when formulating KPI s and OKR s. Photo by von Vix.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Google analytics has ‘low’ priority. I then clicked through to a game review page that weighed another 8.5 It accounts for 1.42% of global traffic as of June 2019, according to caniuse.com. Now back to the DOM. I came across this: ( Large preview ). Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

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. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. With peak demand of 1.5

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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. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Based on user navigation patterns collected from Google Analytics or other sources, Guess.js

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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