All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

WordPress is SEO-Friendly Search engine optimization is the most preferred digital marketing approach to drive genuine traffic and organic leads to your website. Also, you will be able to drive more traffic and leads. Earlier, you might not find good traffic, but consistent efforts will take you places.

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Website Social Media Media Traffic 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance. Sometimes though, it’s a little trickier and, despite thinking your site was great on the performance for some reason it still fails. Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Interesting….

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

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

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. That might come a little bit unexpected. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If that service is slow, failing, or not available at all it results in frustration mentioned in some of the comments on social media and the app store. Dynatrace’s RUM for Mobile Apps provides crash analytics by default. For availability, I always propose to use Dynatrace Synthetic vs looking at real user traffic. Availability.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 201

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. Twitter serves as a vital communication channel for individuals, businesses, and even public figures, the outage attracted widespread attention and negative feedback on social media and in the news.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. Twitter serves as a vital communication channel for individuals, businesses, and even public figures, the outage attracted widespread attention and negative feedback on social media and in the news.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance plateau for your site. What is the "performance plateau"? The concept of the performance plateau isn't new.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Barry Pollard.

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That said, I’ve been looking at performance data for many years and have found myself on both sides of the debate about whether or not the practice of sampling performance data is inherently a good or bad idea. How distributed is your traffic? Are you only interested in a specific type of traffic?

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. While we’re not (yet) actively measuring the nth percentiles, our production workloads speak for Conductor’s performance. An event handler can be configured on these queues to trigger workflows or tasks to perform specific actions upon the terminal state of the workflow.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. There’s no question that there exist bad websites that perform well, but more and more are weeded out with each update. Assets Optimization Whatever media assets you have on-site, for goodness sake optimize them. Win, win, win.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

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.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. It makes sense, because, as we’ve said in the past, good website performance has implications on user experience. Get Familiar with your Analytics. Getting a sense of your current traffic patterns can help you set a baseline.

Speed 40

Speed Social Media Google Traffic 40

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

Metrics 150

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 150

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.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. How are you monitoring end-user performance today?

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics. High performance compute – Fastest and most powerful CPU virtual machines. MB/s = IOPS * KB per IO / 1,024.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

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 ).

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The “forced flush” changes in SQL Server avoid flushes, when possible, in order to improve performance on non-optimized Fua file systems. Performance points of reference: The following charts highlight the increase in performance.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport.

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Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. That is unlikely given the need for SRI annotations or the unbecoming practice of speeding up high-traffic sites, but not others.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

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?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming. To achieve this, Cosmos was developed as a computing platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud. CORE The CORE team uses Python in our alerting and statistical analytical work. We are proud to say that our team’s tools are built primarily in Python.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) And finally, we have an Apache Iceberg layer which stores assets in a denormalized fashion to help answer heavy queries for analytics use cases. are stored in secure storage layers.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

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.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Such a paradigm aspires to assist front-line operations personnel and stakeholders in “running the business”²; performing their tasks through means such as ad hoc analysis, decision-support, and tracking (of tasks, assets, schedules, etc). Data Mesh leverages Iceberg tables as data warehouse sinks for downstream analytics use cases.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. I am yet to find a traditional CMS vendor who can deliver this level of performance on the scale (millions of page views per day).

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To learn about Analytics and Viz Engineering, have a look at Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy and How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices.

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243