Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. Dynatrace news. AWS Lambda. Amazon CloudWatch.

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Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 200

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JULY 7, 2023

Businesses can set up automated reorder points using ecommerce software solutions, where the system produces buy orders or alerts when inventory levels cross a predetermined threshold. Ecommerce software systems also give firms insightful data on their inventory performance.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Software Software Analytics 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

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. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

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. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

Mobile 135

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 135

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 132

Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Previous results from other companies or websites, like those published on WPO Stats , are essential to start a conversation about the topic, but it’s not sufficient. It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics.

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

Strategy 126

Strategy Development Energy Website 126

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. If throttling is applied at the operating system level , then the metrics match what a real user with those network conditions would experience. So why use lab data at all?

Speed 99

Speed Google Website Metrics 99

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. Introducing…Rich Howard. Practical planning.

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). Jump to online workshops ?.

Education 86

Education Website Google Design 86

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Check Calibre , SpeedCurve or SiteSpeed.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. The Baseline Scenario #.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Shared caches must make sense within this value system. Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites. That's how much wire size matters.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system). A scalable, cross-platform content management system is crucial to ensuring a product’s growth velocity. The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Traditional CMS e.g

Open Source 105

Open Source Website Mobile Code 105

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We’re happy to announce that Dynatrace now provides guidance and templates for setting up Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) with the right metrics, gives you all the facts, and combines this with the powerful analytics of problem root-cause detection. Support for release decisions: Shift-Left of SLO evaluation for new software releases.

Metrics 147

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 147

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Government and Big Data.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. This includes 50MB data traffic per day. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? In most companies, that means looking into analytics and creating user profiles based on most common device types.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Image source ).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

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.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243