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Monzo Employs Targeted Traffic Shedding Against Stampeding Herd Effect From the Mobile App

InfoQ

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.

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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?

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. Jonne Kats. 2021-09-24T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-24T10:06:13+00:00. is a big step.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Testing : Well, we should write some tests, right?

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. This scaling takes away the worry from random and unexpected traffic spikes or big seasonal traffic.