InfoQ

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Monzo developed a solution for shedding traffic in case its platform comes under intense and unexpected load that could lead to an outage. Traffic spikes can be generated by the mobile app and triggered by push notifications or other bursts in user activity.

Traffic 59

Traffic Mobile Development Availability 59

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes? Reliability How can we guarantee that a code change will be safe when rolled out to our production environment? Capacity and Efficiency Which resources (clusters, tables, …) are unused or under-utilized and why?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

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

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. There are also cases where although the workload and operational needs seem to best fit to one solution, there are other limiting factors that may be blockers (or at least need special handling).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

To manage the scalability of notifications the subscribers of the hardware primitives are compute nodes, and a software layer on each compute node demultiplexes incoming notifications. A key outcome of this design is that only exception events cause data transfers to the consumer, reducing far memory traffic. A worked example.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there? You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. How to get there?

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104